Re: PhotoForum Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1

Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> · Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:11:15 -0400

    When I was 19, 54 years ago,
        I had a choice to make, a Triumph TR2 or school.  I chose school
        which ultimately led to a forty year career with IBM.  One day
        at a local sports car club meeting a guy my Dad's age  or so
        asked about a rally we were planning.  After the explanation he
        said he wanted to join us but needed a navigator.  I was without
        a car so I volunteered.  Sunday morning my Dad and I finished
        breakfast we looked out the front window and saw a Porsche 356
        Speedster.  My Dad asked if I was going out in that.  I came
        home wanting one.  While in school and discovered women.  I now
        have my first wife, FIFTY years this Friday, one daughter and 
        three sons. I started photography with an Argus C3.  Then a
        Rollei SL35 then an Olympus OM-1N and OM-1MD, and an OM-2, I was
        apart timer in a camera shop,  A Canon A2e, converted to and EOS
        5, and an EOS 3, an EOS 20D, 50D, and a 5D Mkii.  Still no
        Porsche. I had three Mustangs, the most recent with five speed
        stick shift.  My wife asked if I was in my second childhood when
        I bought the five speed.  I explained that growing od was mandatory
        but growing up wasn't. 

        I've been called a dirty old man among other things, but most
        recently a "ROMEO" by one of the sample ladies at Costco.  
        Retired Old Man Eating Out.  BTW,  I'm still wanting a
        Porsche.....

        Bob

    On 3/22/2015 6:37 PM, Russ wrote:

      I agree....

        I turned 60 last August.

        I was asked how I feel.

        I replied...

        When I was 17 I was fooling around in local Theatre.

        I was playing with cameras.

        I was playing guitar and singing in a Garage Band.

        What am I doing now?

        I am doing photos for local Theatre Company.

        I do Photography Prof. (but as a sideline to my day job)

        I play guitar and sing in a Classic Rock and Country Band

        www.rockabye-music.com

        I ain't never gonna be (nor never was) middle aged

        Maybe some day I'll be a dirty ole man!

      On 3/22/2015 7:30 AM, Dan Mitchell
        wrote:

        I am a young 72, going on 73.  I have progressed from a Kodak 66, 35mm.(Halina, Leicas 111b, 111c, 111g, M2/3, Nikkormat, Pentax) and now wholly digital (latest being a Fuji XE-1) plus iPhones.

Jan —

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

dan

          On 22 Mar 2015, at 11:00, photoforum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

  2.  The Book (Jan Faul)

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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:41:57 -0400
From: Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

	I just went through the little book again, and if there is one emotion its contents bring to me it is one of sadness. Nostalgia ain?t what it used to be.

	All of the participants are highly skilled, have been with photography a long time, and know how to express themselves with a camera. I think it?s a shame we haven?t put together more of these volumes, as together the contents seem to portray a group older photographers either in retirement or about to be.

      -- 
Russ

R.E. Baker Photography

www.rebphoto.smugmug.com

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Starve a Fever.....

    -- 

      Never trust atoms..... They make up everything.