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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: For love of the black and white photography of Edward Weston, Minor White and W. Eugene Smith
From: scottgregory at mac.com (Scott Gregory)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:32:32 -0400
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Ted 

I must say that your spirit for living each day to the fullest comes through 
loud and clear through your LUG correspondence. And it truly is inspiring to 
me and I would imagine many others on this list. 

I'm in my early 60's (something I have in common with the Photokina M60 they 
have been advertising lately!!) and at a time in life where I've seen 
parents pass in the last 15 years or so having watched their decline and a 
father in law at 86 who passed this year and carried Leicas and shot them 
since his boyhood. 
He was the one who encouraged me years ago to pick up a Leica rangefinder 
and give it a try and for that I will always be thankful to him. 
He loved those rangefinders and photography right up until a year or so 
before he passed and I saw what an interest there was that brought some 
spark to his daily life when days were not so bright. And the interest I 
have gave us something still to talk about in those down days. 
So your spirit for living and getting up each day to put one's best foot 
forward is something I look forward always to reading when you are in that 
frame of mind to give advice which will benefit anyone reading your words of 
wisdom. 
Picking up a Leica or really any camera one can afford and getting out there 
to try ones best sure makes good sense as we all get older. 
And I truly wish you well and to keep shooting and getting "out there"!

Scott



> On Sep 12, 2014, at 2:08 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
> icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
>> 
>> Now you've brightened my day I shall make the effort to look for the 
>> M-mono.
>> cheers,
> 
> a toast to "brightened days" ;~) my friend
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> 
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
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