On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not really sure that this is a PESO, but I took it and might as well > share. But first there's always a story, even if sometimes I don't feel > like telling it, well today I feel like it. <snip>
http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20mygreatgrandfathershouse.html > > Memory can be a funny thing. After making my photos I was suddenly that > 10 year old boy who had just been told my great grandfather had died. What a wonderful story, Peter. Lovely photo of about the most beautiful house one could imagine. My father's parents lived in rented houses their whole lives. Until moving into a smaller house about 30 years ago, my maternal grandparents lived in a huge (but not nearly as grand) old house in Halifax. It had a flat roof with a turret on one corner - except that the turret was blown off by the Halifax Explosion of 1917, the result of a munitions ship exploding in the harbour. Much of the north end of the city was levelled - it was the largest man-made explosion until Hiroshima's. Only the fact that a hill lies between it and the harbour saved the house. That hill, which hid the harbour from view, deflected the shockwave from the explosion into the air above their neighbourhood. Anyway, I loved your story and your photo! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
