Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You old photographers are prone to exaggeration! ;-) Gerry Gerry Walden www.gwpics.com <http://www.gwpics.com/> www.digitalrailroad.net/gwpics <http://www.digitalrailroad.net/gwpics> www.photographersdirect.com/gwpics <http://www.photographersdirect.com/gwpics> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 tedgrant@shaw.ca wrote: > Marc James Small asked:" > Subject: [Leica] Ted Grant, Chariot Racer > > > Ted Grant wrote: > >>> In my younger and foolish days I drove stock cars, sprints and >>> midgets<<<< >> > > Marc James Small asked > >> Now, Ted, be honest: you have constantly assured me that you are now in >> your middle-aged and even more foolish days .... I forget whether you >> > claim to have posted road guard for Moses or to have pulled KP at >> the Last Supper but, in any event, you've been around for quite a >> while, and your experiences must have started with chariots of some > >> sort. > > >> Share with us, if you will, your own spin on Ben Hur: was it >> historically accurate? <<<< > > > Actually history was close. However they, historians, never mentioned > the strange apparatus he had in one hand and appeared to be talking to > his latest lover, Maureen O'Hara! ;-) I think that was her name? Maybe > it was Delilah or the Queen of the Nile. One of those ladies anyway. ;-) > > In any event it appeared he'd bongoed the wrong number and was > somewhat agitated. In that state he began waving his arm in the sir > and beating the cell like object against the side of the horse's a..s! > And at that moment I sped by on the inside of the track leaving him > lost in a cloud of horse dung and dust! :-) Now he was really peed > off! :-) > > I glanced over my shoulder and realized it was a smashing great photo, > Op. reached for my trusty early auto-firing Leica triple 0 model and > fired away. > > Just at that moment, unfortunately another dumb-ass chariot driver cut > me off while he was head down looking for the Roman numerals on his > talking device and I unfortunately wiped out coming off #2 turn! :-( > > Dropping my photo machine in the dust to maintain control of my > charging steeds, (no neck straps in those days) it was immediately > trashed by the wailing warrior Ben still banging his speaking device > on his horse's ass! :-( Unfortunately my stone like images were > completely destroyed. > > I trust this, when using some virtual visual after thought you can see > the historian's never mentioned this unfortunate early moment of photo > excitement! :-( > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information