[LargeFormat] DIY Focusing Cloth and Blankies

[Verna Knapp]

My longevity? Why....carrying large format gear into the field, of course!


And besides, suntans were not so fashionable in the southern US, even at 
a much later date than that, largely because it made you look like you 
had to work in the fields. A more sheltered lady would not have to do 
that. She could stay out of the hot sun, and this was in the days before 
domestic air conditioning was common. Pale skin was a status symbol 
under those conditions.

Yeh, I know. Makes me sound older than I'm inclined to admit to to 
myself. Actually I'm a contemporary of many of you guys out there, but I 
keep telling myself I'm 35. It keeps me acting as if I were 35. Makes it 
seem perfectly reasonable to carry a 45 pound pack out into the 
wilderness all by myself just for the heck of it. :-)

Verna


> 
> And what goes around comes around.  Now the suntan is falling out of favour,
> and for good reason considering what the sun does to you these days.  Over
> the last 15 years I've watched the Australians go from bronzed to alabaster.
> Well, the women at least... many of the men are too tough to die of skin
> cancer - or so they think.  We Canadians still haven't completely heard the
> message as I see many people on the beach soaking up the radiation.
> 
> Verna, I'm not sure how to take the comment about 'working in the garden
> when I was a girl, back when a suntan was a negative'...  if Coco Chanel
> brough the suntan into fashion in the twenties, and you were a girl before
> that time (say 10 years old) I make you to be about 90 or 95!  And still
> carrying large format gear into the field!  To what do you attribute your
> longevity? ;-)
> 
> Brock





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