Do you remember Stephan Piercey, one of the best photographers I have known? 20 years ago, after he died in a crash in Germany, his legacy was auctioned or better said, his slides were sold to everybody interested. Now his propliner slides collection can be found all over the world, a few here, a few there. It should have been better if the Piercey collection should have been kept intact, as one piece. As a fact, it didn’t, and every now and then his pics turn up in the mags, sometimes credited with its name, but most of the time, some looser puts his own name under the pic, which I see as an insult to say at least. Collections should be kept as a collection. BW Roger

And another “kit” in Barcelona ( under 30 years of dust ). BW roger

Here is some new info. The machine suffered an engine malfunction, and had to land. it landed in a field, which was fine, but the field was to small, so it ploughed through a water filled ditch/canal ( we call it sloot ). Its entire undercart and a wing were torned from the machine which then came through a halt. BW Roger

Just find out, the crash was last Friday (May 20) and the machine came down near Kats in the south west of Holland. That’s all, I am looking for a pic. BW Roger

Looks like it is just another variation on the “digital sucks” posts posted before.If you believe in film, fine with me. in a few years most film will be gone anyway, and it will be a digital world of photography only.Shot slides for 30 years, but I haven’t touched my almost new Eos 1vs for almost 3 years now.I only shoot RAW and if they can’t be read in 20 years isn’t my problem to be honest, by that time I’ll be long gone. My archive of almost 130.000 slides, 50.000 black and whites and god knows how many digital files (by then), will all be given to a national aviation museum, as is already registrated in my last will. So my archive is as safe as possible. Think this is a much more historical responsible act than scaring people that their RAWs can’t be read in a few years/decades time. Who cares as most of what people shoot today is going to the carbage compound in the long run, wether it be on film or digital base. BW Roger

I counted 13 different ones on Sunday. Left however at 14.30 so maybe there were more. Here are some pics I shot then.BW Roger