Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken Carney OFFERED: The two-hole outhouse! > Ted, > > I must admit being somewhat shocked that a photojournalist would engage in > such behavior. Somehow, though, your photos turned out OK IMHO. (I would > put the emoticon in, but the right parenthesis key is broken. > Hi CREW! :-) a two holer story... and no I left the Leica's behind! :-) Hi Ken, Heck don't be shocked as there are lots more from a 63 year career about the world and back that was always fun! :-) Well OK there were some moments that caused a tad bit of survival concerns? But what the hell, I made it this far and my plan is to keep going for another 17 years and "crap out on the day of the 100th!" :-) That's my plan! Then there is "The Great Spirit's Plan!" And my plan wont count! :-) But what the hell, smile and take what comes! :-) Certainly after all these marvelous years involved with photography and quite remarkable wonderful folks in my life! :-) And my cowboy story is nothing compared to a helicopter auto-rotating to the Arctic ocean water with my door off and waiting to hit the water. :-) Damn near peed my pants on that one! :-) Or strapped in a Stock Car and shooting from inside a car during a race, car to car on mile dirt tracks. Long before video cameras were installed or thought of!! :-) Or just crashing without a camera of course in the middle of a race when I drove stocks and sprint cars! Not taking pictures, obviously! :-) :-) It was a heck of a fun filled fearful life! :-) Damn and I'd do it all over again! :-) Providing it was all digital instead of film! :-) And Leicas weren't $22,000 each! :-) Or the parachute jump.....on my 65th birthday because I always thought it would be "cool to roll out and float to earth just to see what it was like?" :-) No I didn't take a camera as I felt it required my full attention to the landing! :-) :-) Oh and some day I'll tell you about my P-51 fighter plane escapade on my 76th birthday and yes I did take pictures! :-) Yeah I can throw a couple of those up as we were flying along upside down about 4000 feet! Hell of a ride! I shot down a half dozen Messerschmitts on the flight!! ;-) ;-) ;-) :-) So the two holer cowboy story is but one of several from an assignment and prepping in learning how to ride a horse properly with three M Leicas hanging off my neck and an SLR with a 400mm 6.8 lens slung over my back!! :-) Damn near got hung with that one on a tree limb through the Alberta bush wilderness because the damn horse wouldn't stop!! The stories are endless and many will be revealed next year when the biography being written as we speak is published next fall. A 50,000 word book written by a very astute author who has been interviewing myself every Thursday and Friday mornings 10 to 12 for the past many months. She has already interviewed people in eastern Canada and the USA whom I shot for or were editors who kicked my butt to make me a better photographer! Yep as life goes around it's incredible! :-) It never ends when you love it with the passion of a love affair! :-) 17 years to go! :-) cheers, Dr. ted > You guys want to be on a cattle round-up out in the back country with a 2 > holer about 2 a.m. on a pitch black night and you are "somewhat under the > influence of the toxic liquid known as alcohol! :-) !" > > Then in the dark step in a hole in the ground, fall, get the wind knocked > out of you to the extent you can't get up because the toxic liquid isn't > allowing any sense of body, legs, balance to function and about an hour > later in the cold of the fall night. The cowboys came out looking for me > with a candle lamp for fear I'd fallen in one of the holes? Or I had > fallen > in the rather large creek flowing by the round-up camp. > > They did a semi-carry dragged me back to the bunk house where they just > threw me on my bunk along with a blanket where it seems I immediately peed > myself and wasn't aware until I was awakened at 4.30 a.m. to get up to > feed > my horse I would ride later in the morning at sunrise. Or that I may, > "hopefully die before if only!" > > Cowboys thought the whole episode hilarious for a city-slicker and I never > heard the end of it for the following ten days during the completion of > the > round-up! > > Aaahhh!! Another one of those fun assignment moments never to be > forgotten! > And followed with the usual forgotten promise of..... "OH my God I will > never drink again in my whole life!" :-) Then immediately forgetting it > the > next evening at days end! :-) Oh well it was a time! :-) cheers, Dr. ted > :-) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at me.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Sheep Farm #20 - The two-hole outhouse! > > >> The story makes the image Chris, although the look of isolation begs the >> question of who the hell shared it, maybe one of the sheep. >> >> Gerry >> > On 16 Sep 2012, at 03:40, Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> > wrote: >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=1504&category=44 >>> Chris Crawford >>> Fine Art Photography > > > _______________________________________________ > 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