On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:36:44AM -0000, Bob W wrote: > > > > David Burnett has a slideshow over at slate.com this week. > > New book out too > > > > http://www.slate.com/id/2234851/ > > > > One of my friends was living in Teheran when the revolution started. His > father worked for an oil company at the time. The friend was an aspiring > photographer and was very keen to get out there on the streets. But in a > blow that destroyed any chance he might have had of becoming a hard-bitten, > cynical war photographer, his Mum wouldn't let him go out. He still hasn't > lived it down, and despite him becoming a photographer and earning a living > that way for over 20 years, I do like to remind him sometimes. > > I, on the other hand, watched it from the comfort of a very beautiful > apartment in Nice, overlooking the bay.
At the time, my dorm roommate was a fairly devout Shiite muslim from the suburbs of Tehran. His mom would write him letters talking about his father and brothers getting on the bus to commute into the city to fight in the revolution. Living with Seyavash was interesting. Khomeni was saying things like all the jews should be killed, so Seyavash would joke about slitting my throat in my sleep. The annoying thing was his waking up at 6am to pray. But not as annoying as when his alarm went off and it didn't wake him up. > > Bob > > > -- > 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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
