My condolences. The photo is an excellent memorial.

Paul via phone

> On Nov 28, 2014, at 11:48 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I learned on Wednesday that a childhood friend had passed way suddenly 
> Tuesday morning, at the age of 57. Cripes - he was only 6 months older than 
> me!  We had had been inseparable in junior high school and high school, but 
> had pretty much drifted apart in college and the adult years.
> 
> As we were leaving Jr. High School he was asked by a reported for the school 
> newspaper to relate a memorable event from his experience in the school. He 
> blurted out: "I really like it when we all ate beef." No idea what he was 
> really thinking of but he was probably parodying a popular advertising 
> campaign of the time encouraging people to "eat beef." Out little group of 
> friends adopted "Eat Beef" as a witticism that we perceived to be incredibly 
> ironically insightful. Well, we were 13...
> 
> So imagine my surprise when in 2011 I stumbled into this bit of rural 
> graffiti:
> 
> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/rural-graffiti-eat-beef
> 
> On learning of my firends passing I went to this photo, which is on this list 
> to be posted someday, and looking at the other images from that shoot I found 
> this one, which with a good bit of photoshop work seems to express my 
> feelings at the time. It was very under exposed ant the image needed some 
> coaxing and manipulation to get out. It visually expresses how I felt on 
> hearing the news:
> 
> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/on-learning-of-a-friend-s-passing
> 
> First photo: Mz-S, F 17-28 fisheye room. Don't recall what lens was used on 
> the second image, though the camera was the M-S. Both images were taken on 
> Neopan 400 pushed to ISO 1600.
> 
> Mark
> 
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