Re: [APML] Meteors? Galen Rowell ---

["Bert P. Krages" <krages@onemain.com>]

At 10:59 AM 8/13/2002 -0700, Bert Katzung wrote:
>Two topics:
>1. Did anybody see a reasonable show of Perseids? I had very foggy
>conditions at two different sites (Sunday and Monday nights) and saw only a
>few. I shot some film but I'm not optimistic.
I saw a few last night when I was making general images.  One was 
particularly long and beautiful.  Most of the time when the shutter was 
open, I was looking at my watch and the crank handle of a barn door tracker 
so I don't know if I got any Perseids on film or not.  I may very have 
gotten some aircraft though.

>2. Galen Rowell was not an astro-imager but was famous for his superb nature
>photography National Geographic, several books)  and is one of my idols.
>This morning's newspaper reported the death of both Galen and his wife
>Barbara Rowell, as well as the pilot and another pasenger of the chartered
>plane in the Sierra. Cause unknown at this time.
Galen wrote a piece in National Geographic in 1974 that was about climbing 
in Yosemite without pitons.  It made a big impression on me about 
innovation and sensitivity to the environment.  This is very sad news indeed.


Bert P. Krages
Attorney at Law
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Portland, Oregon 97223
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