Grant, while I had no personal dealings with Powell, let me please express my condolences. The sincere sorrow of those who knew him is evident. Sorry I missed the opportunity.
Jack --- Grant H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sad to announce the death of PDML member Powell Hargrave, who > was my > brother. Powell was struck down by lung cancer on October 10, less > then a > week after the cancer had been diagnosed. He had been suffering from > what he > thought was a pesky pneumonia for a couple of months, happily he was > not in > pain in his last days. > > Powell bought his first Pentax in the early '60s and subsequently > studied > photography in California and then as a member of the Royal Canadian > Air > Force. He quit the RCAF to go to the University of British Colombia > and > worked as a wedding photographer to make money on the side as well as > being > a staff photographer for the student paper. > > He taught me the basics of photography and I ended up with his Pentax > S1a > back in the '70s. I have since always had at least one Pentax, except > for a > short period a couple of years ago when I thought mistakenly that a > digital > could do it all and sold my K1000. When I realised the digital camera > I > could afford couldn't do all I wanted, Powell sent me off to eBay to > get a > decent Pentax film camera, and encouraged me in my subsequent Pentax > collecting fever. > > He maintained his interest in photography throughout his life even > though he > seldom earned his living directly from it. I noticed his last > contributions > to the PDML were at the beginning of October, a couple of days before > his > health failed. > > He was a wonderfully "jack of all trades" but with the twist of being > > "master of several". The explanation of how he fixed his Pentax F > 70-210 > lens is a good example. See his site; > http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/ > > Powell worked at the Nanaimo BC art gallery for the last 18 years, a > tribute > publish earlier this year; > http://www.mala.bc.ca/~nag/news.htm > > Go out and take a picture in his memory... or take your camera apart > - that > is what he would have done. > > Grant Hargrave > (Spotmatic, SP500, KX, KM, K1000, MX and all the M-series (including > 2 MF Es > with SMC Pentax AF 35-70/2.8 > lenses), MZ-50, P3... Powell was a bad influence!) > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
