[Leica] My first (and second) cameras

[stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius)]

Great poetry! Stasys
On Jun 3, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> When I was seventeen
> It was a very good year
> It was a very good year for Brownie cameras
> And soft summer nights
> We?d hide from the lights
> On the village green
> When I was seventeen
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> When I was twenty-one
> It was a very good year
> It was a very good year for cheap rangefinder 35mm cameras
> Who lived up the stair
> With all that perfumed hair
> And it came undone
> When I was twenty-one
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> When I was thirty-five
> It was a very good year
> It was a very good year for Nikon AI cameras
> Of independent means
> We?d ride in limousines
> Their chauffeurs would drive
> When I was thirty-five
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> But now the days grow short
> I?m in the autumn of the year
> And now I think of my life as vintage wine
> from fine old kegs
> from the brim to the dregs
> And it poured sweet and clear
> It was a very good year
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> But at least I get to shoot pictures with my M6.
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> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
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