I am very sorry to read your post Grant. I will miss your brother's contributions to this list. Please accept my sincere condolences.
Manuel -----Mensagem original----- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Grant H Enviada: sexta-feira, 13 de Outubro de 2006 18:39 Para: [email protected] Assunto: OT - loss of a PDML member 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
