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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (7260)	2/27/2004 10:30:03 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21647

I'm still kicking myself over the one picture I wished I'd taken, but didn't. We were in Rio de Janeiro. We were told over, and over, and over, and over about safety. Don't wear flashy jewelry, fashionable clothes, or carry expensive items such as cameras, binoculars, or video/audio electronics. Avoid insecure handbags. Wallets carried in mens' hip pockets disappear quickly. You get the picture... We were in a crowded railway station. There must have been over a thousand people jammed in there. Tourists, locals, and swarms of little kids peddling junk. In the midst of this, there was this guy taking pictures. He was using Leica cameras. Lots of them. He has so many Leicas hanging from him that he looked like he could be someone's idea of a novelty Christmas tree at Leica head office. Really, cameras were hanging from him like ornaments. And they looked like the top models too: SLRs and every one was shiny and new. For the icing in the cake of clueless behaviour, this guy set his camera bag on the floor and began swapping lenses. When he finished, he left his bag on the floor! With his camera bag still sitting there, just begging to disappear, he walked about taking pictures. I drew The Commander's attention to what was going on and he stood beside the guys bag. Fortunately, the guy finished and retrieved his bag, before our train left. I would've loved to have captured an image of this guy. If the abandoned camera bag was in the picture, all the better. Cheers, PW. P.S. The Commander took the man overboard image. I'm in it, wearing the white sun visor, fifth from the camera, seated against the wall, with my knee raised, and completely blocking his sister, sitting on my right.