Congrats on your upcoming retirement BB.
(Retiring is easy.. I've done it twice now.)
Recently shot a ceremony at Andrew AFB... as one who last wore an army
uniform in 1955, I shared your wonder at the changes that I have taken
place.
Good luck on the next stage of life.
Rick
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been in relatively low profile mode recently on this list. Life
> continues to be faced head on , head into the wind and at the speed of
> light.
>
> Spend last weekend at Norfolk Virginia Navy Base where my cousin was taking
> over as Commanding Officer. She is an Annapolis graduate and the first
> woman to have command of this, the largest base in the world. She is also
> a
> great wife and mother. Way to go girl!
>
> This would never have happened when I was in the Navy. Change is good.
> It would be nice to see this happen globally.
>
> I took about 500-600 images in large jpg format, which is a format I
> seldom use. Signed up for a gmail account, downloaded Picasa and will post
> some
> photos there for friends and family. I've not used a site like this to
> post images before.
>
> Spent about 3 hours at the fellows property with the tractors that I've
> been photographing the better part of the past six months. It changes with
> the seasons and is currently shoulder deep in weeds. I had been using some
> of
> my toy cameras, a Super Ricohflex (2 1/4 square) & Olympus OM 2S. Many of
> these have been "portraits" with either normal or short telephoto lenses.
> Yesterday, I loaded some HP5 in the OM 2S and attached my Tamron 400mm f4
> to the camera and a tripod and took a different approach to recording the
> changes in the tractor yard. Shot 2 rolls. Tight crops, selective focus,
> isolated parts, relationship to the environment. What fun!
>
> Processed my first roll of film in the new darkroom yesterday. Discovered a
> few glitches in the darkroom and in my technique. Fortunately none of the
> glitches screwed up my film. Now that is a change. 5 more rolls to do
> today.
>
> I'm retiring from my insurance career at the end of the year. The
> retirement party has been planned, so I guess it is official . . .
>
> My first Social Security check should arrive in September. I've been
> paying in for the past 54 years.
>
> Let's back up to the change of command at Norfolk. At the reception where
> there was more brass than I've seen in one place at the same time, there
> were many Captains ( for the non-military folks, that is one step below an
> Admiral in the Navy) and a few Admirals. As I walked about, taking
> photos
> of these silver haired senior officers, it occurred to me that when I got
> out of the Navy in 1968, none of these folks had yet started their
> careers.
> To me it seems like yesterday . . .
>
> So what is next? I'm in the process of applying to graduate school as I'm
> not yet complete with this living thing. I'll keep the list posted on the
> progress.
>
> Bill Barber
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