[Leica] RETROSPECT 125 [FINAL]

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

This was a wonderful trip.   Now we need to get you another digital camera
other than your phone to capture the small town life you have in central
coastal Texas.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 11:40 PM Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> A westbound Amtrak three miles east of the Colorado Continental Divide. It
> doesn?t go over the divide but under through through the 6.2-mile Moffatt
> Tunnel. This Widelux shot was the centerfold of the Peak to Peak ?Day in
> the life? essay.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Westbound_+Rollinsville_+Colorado_+1988.jpg.html
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>     And so, on my 79th birthday (4/25), the last of 125 images which
> partially summarize 60 years in photojournalism. The collection extends
> from 1960 to 1988. The product of the rest of the years are found on the
> LUG website.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/
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>    I realize this marathon has tried the patience of some. Two of my
> friends asked to be removed from the distribution list.
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>     Now that it?s over, work begins on a book. Stay tuned for details.
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>    Most especially, my thanks to:
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> ?All those who looked and commented.
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> *All those who looked and didn?t.
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> *Webmaster Brian Reid for his constant help and encouragement.
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> ?The LUG website for serving as a platform for this collection.
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> *Robert Pledge, founder of the Contact Press Agency, for he knows what and
> he knows why.
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> ?And to Ted Grant, God bless him.
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>    A final note: For five years I belonged to the staff of the Estes Park
> Trail Gazette, working with what I consider the most talented group of
> journalists in my career. Because the town is the entrance to Rocky
> Mountain National Park, my photographic emphasis immediately switched to
> landscapes. I climbed Longs Peak three times and every summer hiked
> hundreds of miles of trails, always with a camera, a Widelux and lenses in
> my backpack.
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>    You will not see any of that product here, nor will anyone else. When
> the owner sold the newspaper to the Denver Post, the new publisher of the
> Trail-Gazette announced that, from now on, the paper would be printed in
> color. That dorkwad then tossed out five decades of negatives and all the
> back issues, dating back to 1914. He was fired for it, but all those
> negatives, all that history, now are rotting in a landfill.
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> ?Bill
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