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Re: [OM] Images from long ago

Subject: Re: [OM] Images from long ago
From: "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:27:58 +0800
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From: "Moose"

>Yeah, I just discovered that last night on the eSIF. I did take an XA to
>Mexico on later trips, but it can't have been
>on this one. :-)

>Back then, when I was 30, I thought I'd remember everything, and didn't
>keep notes or a travel journal. As it turns out
>all these decades later, I do remember the important stuff, but less
>important details and especially the time lines are
>less clear.

I have the same problem remembering the time lines, fortunately I didn't
travel much so it is easier for me :-) But I lost the exact time for many of
the local family shots, can only guess by the age of my sons.

>I think it must then have been my then almost new OM-1, probably with
>50/1.8, although I may have had the 100/2.8 by
>then - or was that the next year?

> My late wife was half Mexican and born in Mexico City, and we visited
> fairly often. Here she is at the Museum where the
>fountain images were taken later in the day.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/Mexico/Mexico_City_and%20Taxco_1974&image=Nov74P3-Mexico_16oof20.jpg>

>The quote above her head is from the Popol Vuh, a collection of
>mytho-historical narratives of the K'iche' (Quiché/Maya)
>kingdom in Guatemala's western highlands (Whose descendants Tina has so
>beautifully documented.) An appropriate source
>for quotation in the major museum of the anthropology of Mexico and Central
>America.

A nice one! both the subject and the image :-)

C.H.Ling

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