Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good to see you back on the Web, Jim Fantastic shot - pushes my monitor to the limits. My missus has two new hips and they gave her a new lease of life. It will not be all that long before you are back on your feet and dashing about like a spring lamb. Best Douglas On 25.02.2014 15:30, Tina Manley wrote: > Amazing photo! Best wishes for your hip replacement. Let us know how it > goes. I'll be headed that way someday. My two new knees increased my > mobility immeasurably and I hope your hip replacement will do the same. > > Tina > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >