Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd love to see those pics!!! On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> wrote: > In 1993, I was in Moscow when Yeltsin dissolved parliament and there was > great unrest (tanes AK74WASRs, etc) shot many photos with Feds and Zorkis > as > was not kosher to look western where the unrest was. Went to GUM purchased > all the TACMA ISO 64 B&W they had. Insisted the poor guy sell me all his > cassettes (at the time film was spooled and wrapped with foil and inserted > in the outer shell. Which was reused no time to do that with tanks) > Purchased developer and fixer used vitamin C as stop as was unsure of water > pH)......loaded shot great pix developed and dried in hotel Cosmos room. > Rolled negs tightly, hollowed out insoles put negs in insoles (was unsure > who was going to come out on top) Out through Warsaw then Amsterdam into US > at MSP. > > Got pulled aside. > > Got escorted to little room by a polite but very firm woman > > I was unsure why. Two armed men joined her. > > They pulled out my shoes and asked if I wanted an attorney present. I said > no. > > I am sure they were expecting the idiot of the week smuggling cigar size > joints in his insoles for heaven's sake... > > The disappointment on their faces was priceless as they pulled out a dozen > rolls of tightly round film... > > They looked at it (last ditch hope for porn? who knows) > > Asked me to confirm where I had been (look dude you have my passport check > the stamps) > > Need to dig those out and print them > > > Mark in PDX > > > > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Richard Man wrote: > > > I read a story of, I think, Magaret Bourke-White that she took truckload > of > > film and developer when she was shooting in Russia and developed the film > in > > the hotel rooms. > > > > But this got that beat: > > http://www.insidescience.org/current-affairs/like-no-other-view-on-earth > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]