Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I received news this evening that Jerry Olson passed away
> unexpectedly.  I got this second hand so I don't have any 
> details.  Apparently it was within the past day or two.  



I have now returned to Greece from Washington DC and have read the 
many warm posts concerning the late Jerry Olson.  I intended, during 
my visit to telephone Jerry and Clayton Jones to thank them in person 
for their generosity and kindness in assisting me in enhancing my 
digital b&w skills, and to build on internet derived relationships. 

Thus it was that, last Friday at the end of a week of meetings, I 
telephoned Jerry's number and asked the lady who answered the phone 
if I could speak with him.  I was shocked and dismayed to be told 
that he had passed away that morning.  I expressed my condolences, 
explained who I was and said that I had wanted to speak to him while 
I was in the US for a chat and to thank him for his help to me.

I then contacted Clayton and asked him, since I had no internet 
access, if he would pass on the message to the group.  I would like 
to thank Clayton for doing this and apologize for my inference that 
the lady to whom I spoke was his wife not his mother as subsequently 
transpired.  I am sorry for my presumption.

I have just revisited Jerry's website: his artistry is self evident 
even on a small screen.  I had thought of buying a print last 
Christmas but did not get round to it...choosing was one of the 
problems.  I now regret not doing so.

Keith Kreb's suggestion of a memorial trust is a good one and, maybe, 
I can buy a print through this, although buying on ebay from outside 
North America is not often possible.

A good photographer friend of mine from when I lived in Silver 
Spring, MD, in the mid eighties passed on last February.  I fear his 
images will be lost forever.  I hope Jerry's will survive.  There is 
so much artistry that seldom gains the public recognition it should, 
and this was ever so: but, perhaps, in this digital age the prospects 
will be better.

Never having spoken to him, I did not know Jerry but, nonetheless, 
I'll miss him.

Colin Conway