[WWI] Back from Finland visiting museums

[Karen Rychlewski]

On Aug 7, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Diego Fernetti wrote:

>> ...directions to the Lafayette
>> Escadrille Memorial--never did get to see it.
>
> Je m'baladais sur l'avenue le cour ouvert à l'inconnu
> J'avais envie de dire bonjour à n'importe qui
> N'importe qui et ce fut toi, je t'ai dit n'importe quoi
> Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser

Hey! That's exactly what they said   :-)

> When I was in the NASM, I took five films canisters of 36 exposures  
> during
> my visit. When I returned home and developed the film.... only
> two -partially- remained with images exposed on it! Or it was a  
> defective
> batch, or maybe the temperature changes ruined the film, or the  
> photo lab
> technician ruined it, is something I'll never know!

That was Brian upstairs puttin' the whammy on you.

At the Italian AF Museum (hard to get to; hard to get into--it's on a  
military base; and shadowed by a teenage Italian airman who spoke no  
English) I managed to double-expose a roll of film with the Lohner L,  
Caproni bomber, and Ansaldo SVA 5 on it...66 artsy but useless  
photos. Oh well...

The inventor of digital photography should be canonized by the Vatican

Karen