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Re: [OM] ( OM ) Two great poster prints framed, and a Spring exercise

Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) Two great poster prints framed, and a Spring exercise
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:30:44 -0400
Still able to ski at 71 is goodness. :-)

Chuck Norcutt


Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> See (again !! )
> 
> http://www.brianswale.com/zuikoholics/index.htm
> 
> A long time ago - ie 1986, along with 3,000 others I lost my life-vocation as 
> the incoming Labour government in New Zealand dis-established the NZ 
> Forest Service ( to repay election support from the environmental lobby). A 
> lot of "stuff" was just given out, and I acquired two poster prints of 4x5 
> Kodachromes made by my old mentor. I've have had these carefully rolled 
> up all this time.  However, the local Art Gallery owner just announced she 
> has her business on the market.. She does great framing, so I had these 
> two prints (now very rare ) framed behind non-reflective glass, by her. These 
> may well be the only two in existence in pristine condition.  E-510 & DZ 14-
> 54 I think, hand-held. Rough and ready shots.
> 
> Next down, a printed photo of the man himself from a small print in a big  
> calendar we had done to honour him a few years ago. E-510 & Zuiko 50/3.5 
> hand-held.
> 
> The next 5? images are of a Spring outing I did yesterday. The weather was 
> brilliant after an appropriate storm 2 days prior. The top two were taken by 
> a 
> facility employee who I befriended during my many passages past him as he 
> handed me a platter to sit on.
> 
> Note the long skinny legs;  and also the evidence for my contention that E.T. 
> was an ancestor of mine - my long knobbly fingers look just like the finger 
> ET put carefully on the tip of the nose of one of his humans. People say they 
> are artistic fingers - I say rubbish - good artists have short strong fingers 
> that 
> deliver precise control. However, just 6 weeks off my 71st anniversary and 5 
> years since I played with this environment, I had a great day with at least 4 
> hours hard at it and a lot came back ....
> 
> The other shots are pretty-much self-explanatory.  Not a demanding 
> environment for that kind of activity, but ideal for getting back into the 
> swing 
> of things.
> 
> The E-510 has behaved itself very well with all these. It must have caught 
> H1N1 a while back, to cause me to complain bitterly as I did.
> 
> Brian Swale. 
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