Dear Grant I am so sorry to hear the news. Although it must have been a shock, one saving grace is that he didn't suffer for long. My best wishes for you and yours. Simon
>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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
