Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/29

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Ageless DC-3
From: von-ohlen at sbcglobal.net (Bill Larsen)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:17:29 -0800
References: <3782DD2D9465459691789DE9B93467B8@jimnichols> <015f01cde48d$53efab70$fbcf0250$@NelonAssociates.com> <50DF781F.2070107@sbcglobal.net> <026401cde623$8f07cf70$ad176e50$@NelonAssociates.com>

Thanks for the back story.  I really didn't catch the time period. It 
was a different time in a lot of ways.  I loved flying over the Belgium 
at about as 2,000 feet on he way to Gatwick.  I was so lucky to be 
stationed at an air force base where I figured out how to hop rides to 
interesting places.  (Of course one had no  idea about how you were 
going to get back).  I think the whole point of my post is that there 
are a lot of reasons we make photographs.  And one of them is very 
personal in that  even photos you wouldn't publish job our memories to 
something that happened in the past.

I sometimes worry about some of the people that are using magnifying 
glasses to examine  photo prints.

Regards, Bill

Oh and can you really do what your website says at those prices?  ;)

On 12/29/2012 4:21 PM, James R. Nelon wrote:
> Bill,
>
> There is a back story on the Canaima trip: I was leaning well through the
> left seat pilot while he was banking the plane so everyone could get a
> better view as he made several circles of the falls. I was essentially in
> his lap pushing my R3 out the open left-side window to try to get a clear
> shot of the falls. On the way back, the third pilot on the flight went up
> and took over the controls while the captain came back behind the cockpit,
> sat on a stack of beer cases and had a few brews during the 2-something 
> hour
> boring return flight. I was watching the left seat as he was flying the
> plane, and after a while, his head never moved again. He had fallen asleep.
> When we got close to Barcelona, the captain finished his beer,  returned to
> the left seat, tapped the sleeping pilot, took his place and landed the
> plane. Quite an interesting trip. No one died.
>
> Jim
>
> James R. Nelon
> Partner
> Memories Forever Studios
> Office: +1-508-319-1679
> Cell: +1-508-308-6525
> Email: JNelon at Memories-Forever-Studios.com
> Website: http://Memories-Forever-Studios.com
>
>



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