Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Let me add my comments about Sal.>>>>> Seems like an interesting way to open. 1988...Canadian Federal Election over and returning to Ottawa on the charter plane with the Prime Minister, his entourage, attending media and hangers on. As I had been the photographer documenting the election and the Prime Mister's campaign, I was aked to take a picture of this shooter from Time Magazine with the re-elected Prime Minister. So the photog handed me his camera, a Leica, (that was a surprise) I made a shot and the moment disappeared in the dark regions of mind. Until! Two years ago Sal was our Saturday morning guest photographer at my Leica Seminar. Just before he gave his slide presentation there was a comment that he had an exclusive Ted Grant photograph which he was going to show. Immediately my panic button is pushed, thinking it was going to be a shot of me doing some embarrassingly stupid thing. But I couldn't remember where Sal and I had met previously where he could've shot me. Yep you guessed it. It wasn't a shot of me, but Sal at 30,000' when I took his picture on the PM's plane 10 years earlier. :) So Sal, welcome aboard "LUG Flight 2000" I know you'll be a wealth of Leica info to the gang. It gets a tad testy once in awhile, generally we behave and kinda keep on the Leica track. Occasionally the cranky old farts get their britches in a knot, but all in all it's a damn fine family to be part of. Now fasten yer seat belt there's turbulence ahead! :) ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant