Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dearest Ted. We are here for you. You have reminded me that the LUG is a family and, like all families, there are disagreements and estrangements but, like all families, we are there for each other when needed. We are there for you. I think of you and Irene every day. You are our role models and always will be. Tom and I have so many great memories of you both. There is always a reason to continue, Ted. Just think of all of us out here waiting to here from you every day. Think of your wonderful children, grandchildren and, now, great-grandchildren who will all benefit from the knowledge they can gain from just being around you!! We all need to plan a LUG meet near you and have a group hug! There is something strange about the LUG guys. You are all out-living your spouses when in the general population, it is the other way around. I guess old photographers just keep hanging in there. Lots of love, Tina On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > 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 -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html