Very well put. I think Tom has put into words what many of us feel. -- Best regards, Bruce
Friday, October 13, 2006, 11:08:18 AM, you wrote: TC> I also am sad to here of his passing Grant. Thank you for letting us TC> know... and my (our) sincere condolences. TC> Please feel free to join in with our motley crew. TC> Sincerely, TC> Tom Cakalic TC> ----Original Message Follows---- TC> From: "Grant H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TC> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> TC> To: [email protected] TC> Subject: OT - loss of a PDML member TC> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:39:17 -0400 TC> I am sad to announce the death of PDML member Powell Hargrave, who was my TC> brother. Powell was struck down by lung cancer on October 10, less then a TC> week after the cancer had been diagnosed. He had been suffering from what he TC> thought was a pesky pneumonia for a couple of months, happily he was not in TC> pain in his last days. TC> Powell bought his first Pentax in the early '60s and subsequently studied TC> photography in California and then as a member of the Royal Canadian Air TC> Force. He quit the RCAF to go to the University of British Colombia and TC> worked as a wedding photographer to make money on the side as well as being TC> a staff photographer for the student paper. TC> He taught me the basics of photography and I ended up with his Pentax S1a TC> back in the '70s. I have since always had at least one Pentax, except for a TC> short period a couple of years ago when I thought mistakenly that a digital TC> could do it all and sold my K1000. When I realised the digital camera I TC> could afford couldn't do all I wanted, Powell sent me off to eBay to get a TC> decent Pentax film camera, and encouraged me in my subsequent Pentax TC> collecting fever. TC> He maintained his interest in photography throughout his life even though he TC> seldom earned his living directly from it. I noticed his last contributions TC> to the PDML were at the beginning of October, a couple of days before his TC> health failed. TC> He was a wonderfully "jack of all trades" but with the twist of being TC> "master of several". The explanation of how he fixed his Pentax F 70-210 TC> lens is a good example. See his site; TC> http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/ TC> Powell worked at the Nanaimo BC art gallery for the last 18 years, a tribute TC> publish earlier this year; TC> http://www.mala.bc.ca/~nag/news.htm TC> Go out and take a picture in his memory... or take your camera apart - that TC> is what he would have done. TC> Grant Hargrave TC> (Spotmatic, SP500, KX, KM, K1000, MX and all the M-series (including 2 MF Es TC> with SMC Pentax AF 35-70/2.8 TC> lenses), MZ-50, P3... Powell was a bad influence!) TC> -- TC> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List TC> [email protected] TC> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
