Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amazing color and detail. Good luck with your hip surgery. I had a hip replacement. It was like a biblical miracle. It gave me my life back. I hope your surgery does, too. Barney Barney Quinn, WK3Z C: (301) 775-1386 H: (301) 654-0938 > On Feb 25, 2014, at 2:13 AM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> wrote: > > Dear Fellow Luggers: > > I haven't been active here for sometime, but I've been trying to keep up > with things by reading many of your posts. > > This photo was shot a couple of years ago in Lowell Massachusetts on > Ektachrome 100 with my 11x14 view camera, I showed it here at that time, > Fall 2012. > > http://www.hemenway.com/IndustrialCanyon-11x14-200072-Ekta100.png > > It's part of a small personal project of mine to shoot a lot of photos of > the locks, canals and mills in Lowell with some accompanying history of > what is sometimes called America's first industrial city... the industry > being mostly the weaving of huge amounts of wool in equally huge water > powered weaving mills, all beginning in the early 1800s. > > After I shot this I began having some problems with my right hip! > > It has been so painful that I had to stop using the 11x14 but kept > shooting some digital "scouting" photos for further use with the 11x14 > and my Leica R8 and Leica FishFlex when some of my skeleton parts could be > repaired. > > Finally it came to the point this past October when I could no longer walk > more than a few feet/meters and the following two digital scouting shots > are my last: > > This is a view of the first shot, Industrial Canyon from the other end of > the canal. > http://www.hemenway.com/PawtucketCanal.jpg > > This is the Hamilton canal, parallel to the first. > http://www.hemenway.com/HamiltonCanal.jpg > > But after lots of tests and various medications, my heart has been cleared > so that I can get a hip transplant tomorrow. Hopefully it will be a day > that I can remember with pleasure for a long time. > > So if you fell like it, please wish me luck (off list)... with a lot of > that and a successful procedure, I'll be back in a few months with more of > my project completed. > > Best, > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information