the best shots XI

It’s a two fer special today; the best shots X was posted previously, but there are lots more to show, so here we go, the best shots XI.

It’s 1985, on the South Rim of The Grand Canyon in Arizona, and it’s a superlative sunset.  This was the third time I’d been there, and this time, I got to take my Japanese wife to see one of the great wonders of the world.  Lost in thought, she took my picture.

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I had my dad’s camera then, a Leica that he bought in Germany after his college days, when he did the bicycle tour of Europe.  It’s a cliche now, but it wasn’t then, and as a GI Bill scholar, he did the Grand Tour of Post-War Europe.  That camera was entirely manual; I learned a lot using it.

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Shoot.  Come to think of it, I can’t remember if these were Lieca shots or if I was using my Pentax ME Super.  Either way, they are 35mm shots.  Scanned with a 32 bit scanner, the previous generation to what I have now.

It has been 27 years since I last saw The Grand Canyon, and it is time to go again, I think.  Maybe maybe maybe – I’m just 28 minutes short of Full Time, driving a School Bus, and with the new contract, it pays better than ever, so if I play my cards right, perhaps I’ll be able to fly in to Las Vegas and rent a car and go here again.  (Vegas is a cheap destination)

That’s a new thought; it’s taken nearly ten years to recover fully, physically and finacially from the car wreck in 98, but I’m almost there.

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