Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rose and I had the pleasure of hosting Ted & Irene Grant and Tom & Tuulikki Abrahamsson at our home, here in Logan Lake, for the last four days... Journalist, Ken Lassiter (while researching for his article in "Photographer's Forum" magazine commented): "Since Yousef Karsh died in 2002, Ted Grant is generally recognized as Canada's greatest living photographer. Being compared to Karsh is one thing that Grant is very humble about." http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Ted_1.htm On Saturday, Rose decided to take Tuulikki for a horseback ride... http://www.telyt.50megs.com/riders.htm This may have been one of the most documented rides in history... what with myself, 400 Telyt in hand, Tom with an "M" and Ted with his patented system of 280/2.8 w/2x AND 1.4x converters. http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Ted_3.htm A better view of the lens can be seen here... http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Ted_2.htm This is what Tom thought of the entire proceedings... http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Tom.htm More 'gentle" shots of Tuulikki and Rose are at: http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Tuulikki.htm and http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Rose.htm The 400 Telyt w/2x converter makes a remarkably good portrait lens, as you can see in Rose's shot as well as several others in this group. Naturally, we took them to Tunkwa Lake, where I do much of my photography. We saw the offspring http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Grebe.htm of an albinistic Red Necked Grebe and his/her 'normal" mate that I had photographed last year. Ted complained "that #@%&* grey bird won't go the way I want!" After similar troubles with a Coot, Ted decided that he much preferred shooting the Olympics... "at least the runners all go in the same direction and you know where they'll be!" And, he allowed, Doug Herr and myself were in no danger from him! :-) The next day, we were out at the mine, when Ted showed us the proper use of a Gitzo monopod. http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Gitzo.htm Past the mine, in pursuit of wild horses (which we found), we came across a Coyote.... but you have to guess what part Ted played in this shot... http://www.telyt.50megs.com/coyote.htm :-) Ted, like many of us, likes to "show the flag".... http://www.telyt.50megs.com/Ted_4.htm I don't think any of us have laughed so hard for 96 continuous hours in a very long time. BTW: Ted has a new web-site... http://tedgrantphoto.com/ It's well worth a look! David. --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt Limited Edition Prints at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/prints.htm Leica Reflex Forum web-page: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm