[Leica] IT WAS A TIME! :-) A DECADE OF PHOTO FUN! IT WAS NEVER WORK! :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

"IT WAS A TIME! :-) JUST ONE DECADE OF 6 FUN FILLED DECADES ! And we were 
paid to do it! :-) :-) 

""A quick Sunday read of what's to come!!!!!!!" :-) :-) Look at this as 
merely a touch of titles, many already written from the 63 years involved in 
the magical world of photography!" :-)

Dang it was such a good time. Life was simple and people were pleasant! And 
photography was always funtime. A quick topic outline of what's to come. :-)

THE SIXTIES! --- Now that was a Time: :-) (each  a story unto itself.)


Death, discovery, baby birthing, Pot Pipe, plane crashes-Arctic, Europe, 
Orient, cowboys, round-up, Stampedes, Grey Cup football,  Prime Minister 
Louise St. Laurent, Arctic ice-breaker, Interpol-Madrid, Spain-bull 
fighting, Paris - artists,  Munich-Oktoberfest, Monaco-French Riviera, 
London - Hyde Park, New York-Martha,  The Congo, Ottawa, Zambia, 
Israel-Egypt 6 Day War, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sweden - World Hockey 
Championships, Norway-NATO military exercises, Japan-Canada industrial 
works, attacked by Rabid Fox, Thrown from high speed boat during assignment, 
shooting from inside stock car crash, seal hunting with Eskimos,  eating 
seal meat, helicopter fire and crash landing in -Arctic, shot at during war, 
beaten by police, shooting from horse back for a month, Vancouver Stanley 
Park love-in and hash! Mexico bull fighting, Olympic Bob-sled shooting from 
sled - Sapporo, Japan, Knocked flying on sideline by football players, 
Caribbean training with USA Marines, First ever Sushi-Japan, World Hockey 
Championships-Sweden. Common Wealth Games-Edinburgh, Laser weapon research 
-Newcastle-UK, Coal mining-Wales, Dawson City Gold Rush Festival, Searching 
for oil, NWT & off shore Atlantic, Seattle World's Fair, Buffalo 
Days-Regina, Blue Nose Schooner disaster-Bermuda! AND MORE!  

 

Yes it was a time!  



cheers,

Dr. ted -