Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: <<<<<<Thirty years from now, I'll be the stooped, bitter, nasty SOB in the corner, the one with the IIIc and a nasty grin on his face, shooting snapshots and having a grand time, using a grand camera and superlative lenses to put a picture to the words of my life.)>>>>>>>>> Marc, Wonderful post, thank you and hopefully it will bring some common sense back to this family. But I've got to say .....Thirty years from now you wont be a bitter nasty SOB with a grin on his face, ( I was almost going to say "you're that now!" But I wouldn't do that to one of the gang members.) :) You'll be kicking ass and having a great time with the IIIe and still grinning from ear to ear taking some of your finest pictures. It's attitude! Hell I have a new rep in New York who is about to launch me into a whole new career of completely concentrating in the medical field as a medical specialist photojournalist! Her attitude? "We are going to make a pot of money from your ability and experience in the medical field. I'll keep you working for the next thirty years." Now that I have to see, simply because I become 70 on May 27th. Hell it's only a number. My attitude? Damn I'm going to do it cause I got no place to go and I want to try and wearout my Leicas before I run out of heart beats! Besides like I've said before, "I've become a mean assed son of a bitch. God wont have me and the Devil wont take me. So I'm here forever!" So those that don't like it..piss off! Marc, just you and me baby, 30 years down the line still punching the shutter release and the weiner whiners will be long gone to complaint valhalla! ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant