Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, dear doc Uncle Dad Ted, you have sons and nephews and nieces all over the planet - that's what the LUG is about - and always there for you. Open table for you, any time, here. With lots of love Philippe and Alice from over the pond :-) Le 16 juin 15 ? 23:18, Ted Grant a ?crit : > Hi Crew, > Well I'm still here even though I'm not responding much. Sometimes > life just gets slow and you wonder why are you still breathing? > > The Smart-phones - iphones etc. without question are an incredible > communication tool. And without question, "a destroyer of many > professional photographers lives" as they once were! PITY! ? > > In my case, at the sweet and youthful age of just becoming 86 > incredible years May 27, 2015. I don't really give life a hoop! Yep > I still receive medical type assignments that pay hardly enough to > buy a fine bottle of Single Malt Scotch. Heart breaking really. ? > > I suppose given my first published photo, 17 September 1951 front > page of the Ottawa Citizen-Canada newspaper that launched me into a > most incredible life as a "Happy Snapper" ? WHY? > > Well my dearest wife Irene whom I married 15 October 1949 gave me a > little 35mm ARGUS A2 camera for my first birthday, 27 May 1950 after > we were married! ( that's for the techies!) ;-) She became the > toughest photo editor you can ever imagine! > > She was always the best of the best in the search for the images > that fit the stories or were covering a documentary subject. Or > whatever the assignment! Surely that girl made me a far better > photographer than any other human being on the planet! > > And for so many years we joked about who would die first...... > usually her telling me? " If I go first you wont know how to make > the oven work?" My response always? "Not a hope given my war > assignments, crashing while driving stock cars and Sprints! Oh yeah > a couple of minor plane landings that kind of broke the plane up a > bit!" Oh yeah and te helicopter that caught fire in the High Arctic > at minus 50 below! :-( > > Unfortunately she was right. "She did go first! ? 3 years now > after 64 years married!" I have quite frankly been a damn wreck > since. Some days nothing but wishing your heart would stop beating! > Nor did I know how to make the oven work!! ? > > Someone told me, "Why don't you go out and take pictures?" I had to > choke my emotions to avoid killing the SOB!!!!! > > Sorry lads & ladies a bit of a bad day and the LUG happened to be my > friends to talk with. Sorry. ? > ted > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE