I still enjoy the formality of church and choral society singing but visit the local folk club from time to time.
Ably supported by my one and only wife for the last 56 years we have just returned from our 25th ski trip in successive years and en route for home visited one of our eleven grandchildren.
1937 seems to have been a good year.
Michael in Norwich
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From: Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: PhotoForum Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1
From: Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>
To: PhotoForum educational network <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:11
Subject: Re: PhotoForum Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1
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
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.” danOn 22 Mar 2015, at 11:00, photoforum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 2. The Book (Jan Faul) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 2 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 Feed a Cat... Starve a Fever.....
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Never trust atoms..... They make up everything.
Never trust atoms..... They make up everything.
