Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Aug 27 08:36:32 2005
References: <r02010500-1039-C2EF072516ED11DAB4DE000A957A8242@[67.86.113.249]>

On Aug 27, 2005, at 4:28 AM, Kenneth Frazier wrote:
>
>> What would you do?
> Hmmm....lemme see, now...
>
> A.) You can get the lens fixed (if it needs fixing), the hood  
> replaced,
> sell the MP to some deserving person, buy a $39.95 P&S, make a pinhole
> camera out of the MP body (just drill a hole in the body cap), give up
> photography for fishing, take up needlepoint ....
>
> B.) Your wife and child....irreplaceable, of infinite value, worth
> everything in the world...
>
> Not a hard one, IMHO....
>
> Tell her you love her!!!
>
> There have been times in the past several years, dear LUGers, when my
> return to photography with Leicas, starting with my M6 from Michael
> Hintlian, has been a lifesaver for me, giving me some goals,  
> getting me
> focused, so to speak.... :-)
>
> And, there have been more times when I would give it all up, in an
> instant, for my late wife's presence...
>
> There's not a time I go out shooting that I do not think, "I wish she
> were here to see the light coming through those trees, across that
> field, on our granddaughter's face....."


a touching perspective from one who really knows, and is not afraid  
to say...


thank you, Steve


In reply to: Message from kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier) ([Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?)