[Leica] Moon landing - where were you?

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram)]

Well, I was a 19 year old student living in my parents house 4 blocks from 
the University of Washington.  I was glued to the TV for 36 hours.  Longest 
I have been awake that I can ever remember.  Just fascinated watching and 
listening to Walter Cronkite and Jules Bergman informing the world of this 
monumental event.

I would always tell my students that when I look at the moon I see something 
different than they did.  I see an orbiting body of rock that at one time no 
one had no footprints, and then it happened and the moon was never the same. 
 They see a orbiting body of rock that in their life time has always had 
footprints on it.

Aram

From: Howard Cummer
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 8:54 AM
To: leicareflex at freelists.org
Subject: [LRflex] Moon landing - where were you?

Morning Flexers,

First here is the moon from last night, taken with the Fuji XH1 and the 100 
- 400 zoom, cropped to about 1/3 in LR:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/DSCF4428.jpg.html

I was in Heraklion Crete on June 20, 1969 in Lion Square at 11pm local time 
along with thousands of others. We stared
up at the moon while listening on loud speakers to the chatter between 
Control at Houston and the
Moon lander. The photos and negatives of that evening can?t be located sadly.

But here I am, days before, at the Palace of Knossos, just outside 
Heraklion. I remember the sandals were very uncomfortable.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/DSCA3966.jpg.html

The second picture makes me wax philosophical. Wish I could have that body 
again - with my current assets and wisdom learned over 76 years of living.

Please view large if you like. C&C always welcome.

Howard on Pender (marvelling at the passage of time)

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