[Philmont] Cooking and cameras

<<Mark writes:
   
  
dtadsen@aol.com wrote:
Advice: Make sure you have 2 cameras in the crew.
 Stuff happens!
> The best laid plans..............
>

Better idea. Take John LeBlanc with you. He is a
 great cook and he
carries 4 cameras AND takes great notes.>>
   
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  Correction. I only had two cameras. My wife carried her own, so between the two of us we had three. A camera for each and a spare.
   
  Philmont 1959 was the first time in my life ever that I had my own camera. Back then families only had one camera if that.
   
  I proudly showed my Scoutmaster my "photographs".
   
  He happened to have been a photographer in the Navy Sea Bees during WWII, a prizewiunning one at that.
   
  He asked me if I wanted to learn more about photography and of course I answered in the afirmative. The next summer our troop took a tour Big Bend and he showed a sub group of us interested in the basics and more advanced aspects of photography.
   
  We learned a lot. Most of us got part time jobs and bought our own real cameras after that. That love of making a picture turn into t aphotograph has never left me.
   
  Trips and adventures that I took good notes and good photographs are just so much more meaningful to me since my first attempt at Philmont in 1959.
   
  I still have the map and the pictures and they are some of my prized posessions even if the quality isn't quite there.
   
  Fast forward to 2002.
   
  I bought a brand new 35mm film camera for that trip ratehr than lug my Nikon F along on the trail with it's auxilary flash attachment. Well, the camera quit on me which was a big disapointment since I planned on taking quite a few flash shots of people rather than scenery.
   
  Our lead advisor had a new digitaal camera along and promiste the whole crew to "share" the pix he was taking. Like many things on that trek from him, he failed to produce that also so I have a v ery limited collection of photographs from that trek, a real disapointment in that I made it with my youngest daughter.
   
  Thanks to meeting Fred Muesler on this list and also at Clear Creek that year and c rossing Mt Phillips with his crew, we shared a lot, his beef jerky and my M & M's I carried to give the crew on top. We had a great time, Fred took a lot of pix and sent me a CD with all of them on it. I really appreciated that. Friends made on this list have come through with flying colors many times.
   
  I agree with all the posts concerning my suggestion. I'd never require a boy to do anything he did not want to do, but my getting out my Photo album from Philmont 1959 and letting them see my feeble attempt at documenting it makes their first attempt look really good and it incourages them to do the same because getting to see my pix from back then and the ones I take now I quite often get comments like "gosh Mr. LeBlanc, you got a LOT better at taking pictures>
   
  That I did thanks to Philmont in 1959 and my Scoutmaster in 1960. It's been a labor of love for the past forty-eight years and reviewing them periodically on rainy nights is quite a pleasure.
   
  When I'm old and Gray (as in Calvin) and in a nursing home, just bring me my Scout pictures adn I'd be OK.
   
  John LeBlanc
   
   
   
  

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Received on Wed Oct 17 17:36:21 2007