Re: [Leica] re: most important person at a wedding?

["Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@charter.net>]

Hi Ted:

At this point, I hope to be there in Victoria in April.  It would be a shame
not to.  I look forward to meeting many people I have come to know on the
list but have never met, and I want to shake their hands, and yours, and
say, "Hello, friend."  What a nice experience that will be.

Stay warm, and guard your health.

The Other Ted




- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] re: most important person at a wedding?


> Hi Other Ted, ;-)
> >>Brings me back 50 years ago when I did those "misery days" of shooting -
> sometimes > two in one day.  And three or four on some weekends.  Holding
> the 4X5 Linhof in one
> > hand, the huge strobe in the other, a ton of battery on one shoulder and
a
> wallet of sheet > film holders over the other.<<<
>
> Well my friend it's a form of photography we both experienced many times
> compared to some of these young guys around here. :-)
>
> And like you, I hated shooting the damn things as they took all day
> Saturday,  I'd  shoot a Roman Catholic one in the morning and a Protestant
> in the afternoon.  My real interest during fall wedding season was to be
> shooting the pro football teams so I hated weddings even more so that time
> of the year. :-)
>
> We used those big Multiblitz III wet cell power packs that weighed more
than
> a case of beer and I was always reaching up high with the strobe gun to
get
> away from shadows on the wall behind, but weighed down on the off side
with
> the strobe and a Speed Graphic or a Crown Graphic on the other.
>
> We used film magazines with 12 sheets and the leather bag on the side
where
> you slid the exposed sheet out into the bag and flipped it to the back of
> the set and when you finished the 12 you put the slide in and changed the
> magazine.
>
> A few times I put 24 exposures on one mag! Need I say more about the deep
do
> doo later? ;-)
>
> >>> But looking back, it was a good learning experience. <<<
>
> It was very much so, despite at the time we didn't appreciate it nor what
> lay before us in the ensuing years. Which in reality still weren't so bad
> either, at least we made it this far with wonderful photo memories along
the
> way.
>
> And to you my not so far away friend, lets see if we can't get a hand
shake
> in during this New Year before us, certainly as soon as we get nice warm
> comfort weather to do it. Did you have any thought of coming to Victoria
for
> the LHSA Spring shoot? Should be a fun thing, as I understand the folks
who
> attend are "picture takers." ;-)
>
> The very best for the New Year may it be Healthy and Happy through out the
> 12 months. All the best to you and family.
>
> kindest regards,
> ted
>
>
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