[Leica] Industrial Canyon

[jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Dear Fellow Luggers:

I haven't been active here for sometime, but I've been trying to keep up 
with things by reading many of your posts.

This photo was shot a couple of years ago in Lowell Massachusetts on 
Ektachrome 100 with my 11x14 view camera, I showed it here at that time, 
Fall 2012.

http://www.hemenway.com/IndustrialCanyon-11x14-200072-Ekta100.png

It's part of a small personal project of mine to shoot a lot of photos 
of the locks, canals and mills in Lowell with some accompanying history 
of what is sometimes called America's first industrial city... the 
industry being mostly the weaving of huge amounts of wool in equally 
huge water powered weaving mills, all beginning in the early 1800s.

After I shot this I began having some problems with my right hip!

It has been so painful that I had to stop using the 11x14 but kept 
shooting some digital  "scouting" photos for further use with the 11x14 
and my Leica R8 and Leica FishFlex when some of my skeleton parts could 
be repaired.

Finally it came to the point this past October when I could no longer 
walk more than a few feet/meters and the following two digital scouting 
shots are my last:

This is a view of the first shot, Industrial Canyon from the other end 
of the canal.
http://www.hemenway.com/PawtucketCanal.jpg

This is the Hamilton canal, parallel to the first.
http://www.hemenway.com/HamiltonCanal.jpg

But after lots of tests and various medications, my heart has been 
cleared so that I can get a hip transplant tomorrow. Hopefully it will 
be a day that I can remember with pleasure for a long time.

So if you fell like it, please wish me luck (off list)... with a lot of 
that and a successful procedure, I'll be back in a few months with more 
of my project completed.

Best,

Jim