Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted is more than a national treasure, he is a world treasure! I too have had the privilege of meeting him, in Barcelona. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA On 04 Oct 2014, at 22:48, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > Ted Grant is a national treasure of Canada. He photographed Prime Minister > Trudeau sliding down a banister and Ben Johnson winning the Gold (and then > lost it later due to drug violation). Travel photos, Queen Elizabeth, he > has done it all. His photography mantra is KISS (Keep it Simple...) Back in > the days, he would run around with 3 Leica Ms on his neck, and then one or > two Leica R with long lens. > > And he's an incredibly generous, funny person. My wife and I had the > privilege to share an afternoon with him. The Leica M9 photoset is here: > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/TedGrant-2014/ > > It was somewhat surreal that after some niceties, that I brought in my 4x5, > and of course I had the wrong film etc. So a mistake :-/ Nevertheless, with > the magic of Lightroom, an image can be seen: > > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20141004-Scanned-515.jpg > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >