Veterans Day!
Nov 12, 2018 13:57:03 #
DelRae wrote:
WOW Thank you for your service and help making us safe LOTS of HUGS to you
Welcome, Del Rae! You made me smile with your fine response, THANK YOU! AP
Nov 12, 2018 14:09:10 #
When I was 18, I volunteered for the draft (WTH, my # was 26), and added another year after AIT.
My first PX camera was a Yashica rangefinder. Very nice camera that was in a bag hanging inside a M113. Got banged hard and never worked again.
Bought a Petri fully manual for $120 w/55mm lens. Added a few lenses later and fancied myself a photographer.
I spent most my duty overseas got lot of good shots and bad shots using mostly Agfachrome.
I still have my Petri and the lenses which I adapted to a Samsung NX which seems to yield much better results than the Agfa ever did.
My first PX camera was a Yashica rangefinder. Very nice camera that was in a bag hanging inside a M113. Got banged hard and never worked again.
Bought a Petri fully manual for $120 w/55mm lens. Added a few lenses later and fancied myself a photographer.
I spent most my duty overseas got lot of good shots and bad shots using mostly Agfachrome.
I still have my Petri and the lenses which I adapted to a Samsung NX which seems to yield much better results than the Agfa ever did.
Nov 12, 2018 14:19:45 #
Nov 12, 2018 14:35:33 #
Was there in 68 hue and phu bai during tet you would not be walking around in hue very long before drawing fire from somebody manly rvn even six months later it was not a safe place for any given owalk around taking pictures.sorry about your disability I also have problems from agent orange.and 80 percent dissabled.
Nov 12, 2018 14:51:21 #
robertjerl wrote:
How long after Tet? Hue was not a place to wonder around as a GI tourist with a camera for quite some time. Tet was not anywhere nearly as bad in Qui Nhon where I was and we were restricted as to going into many parts of the city.
I was on a 100 man special detachment to Okinawa for six months than joined the rest of the battalion the last three months in HUE. I was on a
duce and a half truck with three Marines and shot guns. We made stops on the way and I made these keeper photos! You have to be nuts to be
in a war zone with real guns and bullets . . . when you're 20 you think you know it all!
We're lucky, NO ATTACK!!! AP
Nov 12, 2018 14:55:27 #
Thanks for your service and for some interesting photo journalism of the scenes on the ground in Nam.
Nov 12, 2018 14:55:39 #
Thank you for your service! I spent 20 years in USAF, including the entire time of the Vietnam War, but was not sent to SEA. My overseas tours were in Canada, Iran, and Germany and no one ever shot at me. I have utmost respect and admiration for those who went in harm's way.
Nov 12, 2018 15:23:14 #
AzShooter1 wrote:
Bless you for your service. My best friend has complications from Agent Orange so I know what you are going through.
Great shots. I learned to shoot when in the Air Force and it became a hobby for life.
Great shots. I learned to shoot when in the Air Force and it became a hobby for life.
I too, agree with you, Photography is for Life! I'm still learning the importance of a single story telling photographs! Never give up shooting pictures! AP
Nov 12, 2018 15:32:38 #
yssirk123 wrote:
Thank you for your service.
Thank You, for your response, yssirk123! Be Good and Not Bad, Always Think Happy Thoughts! Bring Smiles and Happiness at the dinner table! AP
Nov 12, 2018 15:46:33 #
Wes wrote:
Thanks for your service. Life was much better for me in Korea. I do think I still have my SRT 101. I was going to include a picture I took of Marilyn when she came over in 1954 but was unable to locate it. That Minolta was bougth later. I'm not sure it was around in 1954.
Hi,Wes! The Minolta SRT 101 that I used to make the pics in HUE RVN, was available new in 1968. Right to this very day, making
photographs stops a moment in time, it's a keeper! Always shoot pictures, Not People! AP
Nov 12, 2018 15:59:12 #
Thanks for Your Service in Nam,,,seems like more and more illnesses due to Agent Orange including type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease and Prostrate Cancer,,,but your Positive Attitude helps not only in Combat but also in fighting illness,,,Thanks for posting the pictures was in Nam 68/69 humping a rucksack in the Mountains of the Central Highlands...
Nov 12, 2018 16:06:06 #
AP wrote:
I started photography in 1966 film cameras of cour... (show quote)
I enjoyed your shots and narative, ap. many young men got sick from that horrid agent orange.
love your positive attitude and you gave some great advise.
Nov 12, 2018 16:19:49 #
act wrote:
Thank you. I was on a Special Forces A-Team (Intel SGT) in the Highlands of VN and took lots of photos using a PenEE camera. Unfortunately when I split with my ex she destroyed or threw away the ones that I brought back. I wish that I had them now so that I could donate many of them to the Special Warfare Center Museum and the 5th Special Forces Museum that they plan to build. Happy Veterans Day to all.
Thank You, for responding, Act! I'm disappointed in your lost photos, I too have many to post. This new computer and digital camera, it is a new age of techknowlege, and, I'm still learning. It's slow for me, but I do not give up! You were with the finest military group, that's not a joke!
Thank You, also, for your active duty, hope your in the best of health! AP
Nov 12, 2018 16:34:02 #
act wrote:
I suppose you saw where they are auctioning Marylin's Thunderbird starting at a half million dollars.
I am familiar with Marilyn Monroe, 1956 TB, Act! I do no know what it sold for . . . I would think these days it would 500K! AP
Nov 12, 2018 16:48:45 #
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