On 11/23/05, Deborah Duran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's so strange that you should mention this today. I got the greatest
email yesterday from a friend of Ron Alcott's. He had put up some pictures
Ron had taken while in Vietnam up on his website. What a piece of history.
I was able to take them and load them into my digital camera. I took the
pictures to Walmart today and they were able to print them for me. It is so
neat to see them 39 yrs ago. Some were in black & white and a couple of
them were in color. We had such a fun time talking about all the guys in
the pictures and sharing the stories behind them. That was the same year I
was born. :) What a trip down memory lane!
I also got my pictures of the symposium printed at the same time. I got to
see all my friends again today in pictures! I save them all in a box with
my letters and cards from all the people I've met through fly tying/fishing.
I've already bought the stuff to make a scrapbook but it seems I'm always
too busy tying flies.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving all!
Regards,
Deb
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Paul Marriner
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [VFB] Your Photographs
Perhaps it's a maudlin Merlot mood, but I've been struck by two recent
events. Just last evening I was watching on TV, once again, the pain of
those whose lives were devastated by Katrina. So often, the one thing
people strove to save, and felt so deeply if they couldn't, were the
photographs that chronicled their lives. This was also recognized by a
noted US photographer in a magazine article.
Not long ago I was contacted by the daughter of an old and treasured
friend who passed away several years ago. She had no photographs of her
father (as a fly-fisher) to show his grandson. As I write this my
scanner is preparing a twenty-photograph series for an album.
Remember that what you have captured with your camera, while perhaps of
only passing interest to you, may be of immense value to someone else.
cheers,
Paul
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Paul Marriner
Outdoor Writing & Photography. Owner: Gale's End Press. Member: OWAA &
OWC.
Author of Stillwater Fly Fishing: Tools & Tactics, How to Choose & Use
Fly-tying Thread, Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies, Miramichi River Journal,
Ausable River Journal, and Atlantic Salmon.
