Thanks Christine. The shot was taken around 1:45 in the AM. I could not believe how many people were down on the mall that evening. The problem I was running up against was finding a period when there were no people in the shot. Also, the lighting on the Washington Monument was usually turned off at 2:00 AM. After I had the shots I left before 2:00 AM, so I don't know if the lights actually were turned off or not. :-)
Walt On 1/11/08, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walt: My husband lost his younger brother in Vietnam, so we've been to the > wall, and your photo brings stately and dignified tribute to Patrick O. > Ford, the Memorial itself, and all the other men. Lovely, lovely work. > Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Walter Hamler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:02 PM > Subject: PESO: Patrick O. Ford > > > > Ran across this the other day. > > > > I shot it back in the early to mid 80's. Patrick O. Ford was a Navy > > Gunners Mate who was killed in action in Vietnam. His heroic actions > > won him the Navy Cross. > > > > In the early 80's the Navy was building FFG's, a fast destroyer type > > with a bunch of weapon capabilities. One of the first built was FFG-53 > > Patrick O Ford. > > > > For the commissioning ceremony the ship needed a pic of the Vietnam > > Memorial. The criteria was a single pic that depicted the memorial, > > Washington DC, and his name. > > I scanned the neg and made a print. It actually looks better than the > > origonal "C" prints I made back then. > > > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/PatrickOFordweb.jpg > > > > > > Walt > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
