[alt-photo] Re: Fumed silica and palladium printing

[David Ashcraft]

Glad he was there for you!
She gave me a hugh hug while weeping with relief she said "you saved  
my children... you saved me... you saved us from drowning".


On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Diana Bloomfield wrote:

> Wow, David. That's quite an afternoon. I know that mom must be   
> eternally grateful to you. I'm impressed they all managed to stay  
> together. I remember when I was really young-- maybe 4 or 5-- my mom  
> and I were on a raft in the ocean-- a fairly shallow part-- and  
> somehow we got carried way out. Before we knew it, we'd lost the  
> raft, and we were just caught up in this rip current. The lifeguard  
> never saw us, but some man just sitting on the beach did. He must  
> have been a strong swimmer, because he managed to first get me, and  
> then g
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:49 PM, David Ashcraft <davidashcraft at sti.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> Wow, what week!  High water year for the Sierra Nevada, streams  
>> have been dangerous for swimmers.  While photographing a stream I  
>> had a young mother and her two young children get carried over a  
>> waterfall into the area I was photographing.  They disappeared  
>> underwater for a very long time, thought I would have to climb to  
>> that pool and dive into to rescue them but they surfaced and were  
>> carried to the edge where the water poured out to the 100 foot  
>> falls.  The mother was able to hang on until I climbed over to them  
>> and pulled them out one by one.  They surely would have perished  
>> had I not been there.
>>
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>> Fumed silica is used by my friend who fly fishes, by applying a  
>> small amount to his fingers and then rubbing the dry flies with it,  
>> says it helps the dry flies to float on the surface of the water.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Richard Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, I wasn't aware that people fished for flies, only thought it  
>>> was for
>>> fish.
>>>
>>> Ok, enough bad jokes.
>>>
>>> I'll have to go and look up what fly fisherman use and why.
>>>
>>> Ok, I looked and am still mystified. Seems there is some used as a  
>>> floatant,
>>> whatever that is. Also some is mixed with silica gel and put in  
>>> the waders
>>> to absorb water.
>>>
>>> You tell me. This is interesting.
>>>
>>>
>>
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