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Subject: [Leica] A Better 2011
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:07:39 -0800
References: <98298.20306.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Bill,
Some time last year or 2009 wasn't there some  discussion about you making 
contact with the Archives of the State to see if you couldn't be contracted 
and paid to produce photographs of much of your earlier days photography of 
the State?

Just a thought?
With all my effort I wish the best whatever it maybe for you and family in 
2011!
ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Clough" <bill_clough at yahoo.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <LUG at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 10:33 PM
Subject: [Leica] A Better 2011


USA
TEXAS
VICTORIA
01 January 2011

Dear LUG family--

Two stories--both unfinished.

In 1984 I was the feature editor for the Estes Park Trail Gazette, adjacent
to Rocky Mountain Nation Park in Colorado. In late December, just at dusk, 
the
snows brought the mountain sheep down from the high country. I took a 
picture
>similar< to this one, of a female sheep with her head slightly turned 
>because
she was trying to figure out what that reflection was she was seeing in my 
500mm
f8 mirror lens.

She stood full frame in the falling snow. We waited to run until January 1,
1985 with the headline:

HAPPY EWE NEAR

The paper kept the best negatives. So all I can offer is one of the shots I
managed to keep:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Happy+Ewe+Near.jpg.html

In the 1990s the family that owned the paper sold it to the Denver Post. One
of the first decisions the new dorkwad of a publisher made was to announce 
from
now on the paper was to be running only color photographs. And, he said, he
needed storage. So, he ordered five decades of black-and-white negatives 
thrown
into the dumptster, along with all the back copies of the paper dating back 
to
1914.

This stupid example of inhumanity was fired because of public outrage. But
by then, of course, it was too late.

The second story: Earlier this month, my wife lost her job and, on December
28th, the editor of the Victoria Advocate fired me. He has been on a long
campaign to rid himself of those he inherited when he took over the paper. 
Last
month, it was my turn.

Being nearly 70, I find the options limited but refuse to believe my only
choice is at which Walmart would I like to be a greeter.

The good news--I now have time to finally, finally, start working on that
promised book of Texas Panhandle photos. Stay tuned.

I have no idea what 2011 holds. But two truths are evident: It's got to be
better than 2010 and I am NOT going to sell the Leicas.

My best wishes to all for a Happy New Year.

--Bill

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