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Subject: [Leica] OT: who can remember?
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:20:05 -0500
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Steve Couch?  Al Weber?

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Oliver Bryk <oliverbryk at comcast.net> 
wrote:
> I have been wracking my brain in vain trying to remember the name of a
> photographer who had several Sierra Club Books to his credit. I met him in
> 1975 when he led a one week backpacking workshop into the Grand Canyon of
> the Yosemite as a follow-on to Ansel Adams's week long class in Yosemite
> Valley. He was always cheerful, a fine instructor, and was one of the few
> working photographers who used a 5x7 exclusively. As we were hiking along 
> he
> would suddenly yell out, "Glacial Polish!!!" and everybody scrambled into
> position. He was also fond of giving profound instructions next to roaring
> waterfalls. In his final years he lost his eyesight. He lived and died in
> Susanville California (maybe 20 years ago?). Can anyone remember his name?
> Oliver
>
>
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