Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, One of the great joys, for me, on the LUG are your wonderful stories. Keep 'em coming. Roger Hart Detroit USA On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:24 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Nathan offered: > >>>> Wonderful, Ted--I take it the Kyle is the Kyle who visited us 2 years >>>> ago? And I enjoyed seeing the Czech goal against the bastards. I >>>> remember >>>> that game, I was 9 years old and it was the year after the rape of >>>> Prague. >>>> We still lived in Poland and EVERYONE supported the Czechs and wished >>>> injury >>>> and worse on the Russians.<<<<<< > > Hi Nathan, > Yes that's the grandson Kyle who stayed with you folks. :-) Thanks again > for > the kindness. > > I was the official photographer for the Canadian team and shooting as media > for a magazine, "SPORTS CANADA." > > We went to Prague for a week for a couple of warm up games with the Czech > National team prior to Stockholm and the World's. One night in the hotel > about midnight my room mate, a wire service photog sharing the room. We had > a knock on the door and upon opening it was a drop dead georgeous female > dressed as a maid! Like WOW!! ?:-) Who was supposed to prepare our bed? > Like > it was midnight and we had to get out of bed to answer the door. But we > didn't need her "bed services" and shut the door. > > The next morning at the team breakfast it seems we weren't the only media > related people who had the knock on the door. The Czech secret police held > a > quiet private meeting for all non players with details. > > It seems the USSR "bad guys" were trying to set-up any of those considered > part of the Candian group in some kind of "Blackmail bad boys" while > visiting the Czech capital to discredit the team and possibly throw them > off > their game. Then the police went with us to our rooms and showed how the > rooms were wire-tapped. So anything we said could be recorded. Knowing this > for the next few days, my room mate photographer and I, must have burned > out > the USSR agents ears with what we said about the USSR. But it was a fun > thing because we had the heads-up on the SOB's! > Probably not likely! ?An imagined James Bond moment for every one. :-) > > Besides this, we had a couple of guys who constantly turned up no matter > where we were wanting to exchange currency. Again part of trying to create > some kind of bad stories about our on the road behaviour! And all this > before we even got to Sweden for the championships. It was a time alright! > ! > > cheers, > ted > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at > frozenlight.eu> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] NEW UP LOADS. > > >> Wonderful, Ted--I take it the Kyle is the Kyle who visited us 2 years ago? >> And I enjoyed seeing the Czech goal against the bastards. I remember that >> game, I was 9 years old and it was the year after the rape of Prague. We >> still lived in Poland and EVERYONE supported the Czechs and wished injury >> and worse on the Russians. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 19, 2010, at 10:36 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Dr_+Ted+Grant/?g2_statusId=xaba314e9&g2_navId=xe1a8e792 >>> >>> Hi Crew, >>> Some new old stuff all fim scanned... KODACHROMES... ASA 640 PUSHED >>> EKTACHROMES have alook and hopefully once again I trust i've done this >>> right. >>> thank you >>> >>> C&C most welcome I can handle it .... You wont hear my crying! ;-) >>> >>> cheers, >>> Dr. ted ?:-) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >