[originally posted to Panorama-List, CC to PhotoForum/EOS/IR] On 21 Oct 2003 at 21:02, Gary Beasley wrote: > For those of you that know Simon Nathan,I have some > sad news. Simon's daughter called the office this week and told > us Simon is really bad off and wanted to get the news to as many of > his friends and fellow photographers that she could. Anyone desiring > further information can contact Betty at the Hulcher company. > 757-245-6190 Gary I'll miss that guy, with his neverending recalcitrant 'stirring the pot' character, never too tired to step on some toes, even at his old age, and despite his growing handicaps....while digging a bit, I found this lovely note that says it all: http://www.pauck.de/archive/mailinglist/panorama/mhonarc/msg06127.html Goodbye dear friend. With you dies part of an era of panorama photography. A shame we never met, and 'only' exchanged nearly a hundred emails, mostly fun & educational, some serious, even finding a long-lost buddy of you in Holland along the way, Bart Mulder[*], another scholar/college/friend of famous Dutch panorama photograher Frits Rotgans. Thank you for spending your precious time on the Panorama Mailinglist, and teaching the young ones. I for sure will never forget you, it was a pleasure and an honor to have met you. May your end be peaceful & quiet. Goodbye dear friend. CC to PhotoForum/EOS/IR, possibly some old nestors & friends of him around there too. [*] many moons ago, I found a Hulcherama in a Dutch second hand shop....curious about it's low serial number, I wrote things down, and talked to Simon about it, knowing he was the spiritual father of the Hulcherama back then....the next day, after checking with the factory, he replied that the camera once belonged to his old but long- lost friend Bart Mulder, and all this renewed the search for Bart (which we did find in the end, together with the help of Monica Rotgans, daugher of). (sadly I can now not find any valid current email-address of either, to notify them about Simon's fate) -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand <w.j.markerink@a1.nl> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
