[Leica] IMG: Why I Always Carry A Camera

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Dr. Ted, please be sure you keep your camera on when we visit. We
Californians do not like feeling earthquakes in other places :-) Ha ha

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak OFFERED:
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Why I Always Carry A Camera
> Seen at sunset in the parking lot after shopping for groceries.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/20140921
> _MR_Mine_LMX1020134.jpg.html>
>
> I know the sun moves fast, so I pulled out my camera quickly and let my
> shopping cart roll on.
> By the time I retrieved it, the light was off the arrow.<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>
> Hi Alan,
> Well I always carry my camera here in Victoria my home city built on
> Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean for one reason   and one reason
> only!!
>
> The seismologists' have been telling the inhabitants on Vancouver Island
> that some day the BIG ONE WILL HAPPEN!!" :-(
> The "BIG ONE" MEANING A "GIGANTIC EARTHQUAKE AND THE WHOLE ISLAND!" ......
> it's about 300 hundred miles north-south in length. about 100 miles in the
> widest center section and a fair number of good sized mountains..
>
> "IT'S GOING TO SLIDE INTO AND UNDER A GOOD PORTION OF THE PACIFC OCEAN"
> They've been telling us for years and once in a while we get a bit of rock,
> rattle and roll! So I never go anywhere without my Leica rangefinder camera
> just in case the "BIG ONE HITS!":-)
>
> I have got it all worked out after a couple of rolling moments when didn't
> have my camera. BUT IN OVER 30 YEARS LIVING HERE???????? AS LONG AS MY
> LEICA
> IS ON MY SHOULDER THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SQUEAK OF EARTH MOVING,
>
> SO I'M THE SAVIOUR OF THE ISLAND!!!! As long as I have my Leica everything
> is going to be cool and still!
>
> NO CAMERA? SURE AS HELL I'LL BE SWIMMING IN THE PACFIC DUE TO NOW HAVING A
> HOME ON THE WATER FRONT! OR UNDER IT! :-)
>
> cheers,
> ted
>
>
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
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