[LRflex] Re: Strange musings on CAPA & KIA
- From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 06:28:22 -0700
I couldn't help but to respond as a parent.
It was no longer a statistic 'somewhere' else.
Teach me to mind my own business while in line.
(I was sending off the R8, which one of our members wanted)
Best,
Slobodan Dimitrov
On May 26, 2007, at 3:33 PM, phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Cheers me up to be part of a community where people such as you,
> voice so =
> deep human concerns; thank you Eric for speaking on my behalf too.
> Yours, most sincerely.
> Phil...x
>
>
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>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:29:15 -0700
>> De: LEICAFLEX <leicaflex=40gmail.com>
>> A: leicareflex=40freelists.org
>> Sujet: =5BLRflex=5D Strange musings on CAPA & KIA
>>
>> Hi all -
>> I have been keeping radio silence for reasons that are similar to
>> Bob's....too much business travel and too many pressing
>> responsibilities from the 'day job', as well as family needs.
>> However, I had to eventually break my silence and say something
>> instead of watching from the side lines. Yesterday's list posting
>> was
>> the catalyst=21
>>
>> Ah yes indeed, a somber tone hits the list these days - Leica
>> management's response to David's DMR is fitting from an accounting
>> standpoint (i.e. full refund) but somehow it leaves an empty feeling
>> about Leica customer service.
>>
>> Then again, the loss of a 19 year-old to a war to protect so called
>> 'freedom' and 'liberation from oppression' must leave an emptiness in
>> his parents that eclipses whatever pride they may have, front cover
>> tabloid photo notwithstanding.
>> This story from Slobodan somehow shatters the predilection to muse
>> about what digital body to mate with our R-lenses, and replaces it
>> with the stark reality of how we take for granted what we already
>> have, in contrast to what so many in the world crave to have.
>>
>> I am talking about the simple things - like a sense of stability that
>> we and our families have at the place we each call =22home=22, and
>> not
>> worrying about being worthy enough of acceptance in an adopted
>> homeland. So many immigrants coming to the US can't even read and
>> write in English; they may speak it enough to earn a day's
>> livelihood.
>>
>> It is just pathetic when a human life is bartered for ideals that are
>> filled with promise but subject to the vagaries of destiny....like a
>> random walk in a minefield literally. Having said that, Capa gave of
>> himself in the pursuit of photographic truth, and having been a
>> photojournalist for the armed forces when I was 19 to 21, I can
>> emphatize with his call of duty, but my duties never brought me close
>> to live battles that spelt life and death at 1/125 s.
>>
>> On this Memorial Day weekend, it seems to me that I best remember how
>> lucky a lot we are, to be able to fill our thoughts whimsically about
>> 35mm or medium format for the next photoshoot, or the next project in
>> our digital darkroom, or even the 'next' photographic gear to
>> purchase.......and not the immediacy of how one goes about making the
>> next day's bread and butter for self and family.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Eric Chan
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