"A
lot of what I might comment about on this wonderful tour
has already been nicely said by other participants,
so I will just stress how important to my enjoyment
was the car-system of a driver + guide and 2 passengers. Compared
to a bus-system photo tour of southern China, the car-system
really let my own senses kick in as to when to holler "stop," and
feel I could engage the subject matter one-on-one rather
than an overwhelming mass of us."
Lansing
“Lance” Holden of Sedona, Arizona, is a young seventy-something
guy who says he “dropped out long ago to concentrate on
my main interest in birds and animals.”
Trained at Princeton as an architect,
Lance’s dropping out was from a career with Time, Inc.
and Architectural Forum magazine. He has a “modest
claim”
to being a highly skilled modeler of sailing ships, a good
flycaster, and an adequate tennis player, adding that “photography
is a hobby, primarily in landscapes using 35mm slide film.”
Lance’s wife Carol, who did
not accompany him on the tour, was a picture editor with the
old Life magazine, “...a nice plus for home-based advice
but a great minus for the ego.”
On photography, Lance writes, “I
started in digital this year when my brother-in-law gave me
his Nikon 995 when he upgraded to the lat I was in Bhutan trying
to do both with a mind too old to fully retain new things.” Lance
adds that he is riding on the past glory of having 2 photos
published in an article in National Geographic magazine. est;
so now I am confused and torn between what to concentrate on. |