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Originally Posted by OK-944
Thanks Unclebilly...check your inbox!
Scott - thanks for the understanding ear! The machine needs to look, and perform, as a unique whole...and not just as a bunch of disparate parts, lest it become a "frankencamera." Lots of folks, in considering the manufacturing process, don't seem to get this.
Glen that aerial camera is amazing! (I’ve been a Leica user since way back when). I have two heroes in the realm of aerial photography - one being William Garnett who was active back in the 1940's through '80s...the other being Bradford Washburn - who I actually met when he was ninety years old and still full of energy and enthusiasm. At any rate, if you are not familiar with Bradford’s work, you owe it to yourself to check it out!
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The man that hired me to come to work at his aerial photography company was 80 years old when he hired me. He started the business in 1947 and his archive of aerial negatives were astonishing. He loved to fly and take pictures. The day he turned 90 it was impossible for him to get insurance to fly the plane, and take photos. That took his fun away, and he sold the company and in his words, took early retirement at age 92. He made his last airplane flight as pilot in command on his 92nd birthday and never flew again. He was 99, with a tack sharp mind, and kissed his wife goodnight and he walked himself up the stars to the bedroom. She came up a few hours later and found him dead from a heart attack.
The company that bought the business was great, when the dad ran it. The idiot son took over the business. He killed our company with his idiocy and shut it down. He ended up throwing away that fantastic archive of negatives away. That should be a crime, but it was his property.
We started our aerial company right after we were fired. Best thing that could have happened.