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Re: [OM] Springtime in Texas

Subject: Re: [OM] Springtime in Texas
From: "Garry D. Lewis" <glewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:27:35 -0500
gary edwards wrote:

> It's springtime in Texas and I'm having a ball with my OM gear.
> Weekend before last my wife and I went to McAllen for the Nature
> Festival.  There, in the wild, I shot a very obliging ferruginous
> pygmy owl, a merlin, and incredibly brilliant vermilion flycatchers
> with my Tamron 400/4; prickly pear and strawberry cactus blossoms with
> my Zuicko 50/3.5; a pipeline swallowtail just emerged from the
> chrysalis and drying its wings with a 200 f/5 on extension rings and a
> T-32; and grand fields carpeted with wildflowers using my second hand
> 24/2.8 (Yes, Doris, 2.8s are a goodness).  Last weekend, I shot my
> 6-year old nephew singing in the church children's program.  As things
> work out, at about the time my eyes are too old to focus my trusty
> 75-150 f/4 in the indoor gloom, I'm prosperous enough to afford an
> 85/2 and a 180/2.8 that I can focus (second-hand, of course).  Then,
> yesterday, my wife found a huge horned caterpillar in her famous
> wildflower ditch.  I shot that with the 50/3.5 and the 85/2 on clunky
> non-automatic but official Zuicko extension rings.  Good thing he was
> slow.
>
> Light, great subjects, Fujichrome, and OM gear: what more can you ask
> for?  Well, maybe a llama to tote all my gear....
>
> Gary Edwards
>
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  >>Light, great subjects, Fujichrome, and OM gear: what more can you ask

for?  <<

How about a scanner so the rest of us could see these wonders!

                                            your jealous,

                                                        Garry D. Lewis


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