Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<html> i want to thank erwin, ken, eric, rob, mary and heinz for you critique of the images of my mother. they will soon be ready for publication. the text is being finalized now. at eric's persistent suggestions i put a selection up on my web site. if anyone would like to take a look at them please go to:<br> <br> <a href=3D"http:///">http://www.northwest1.com/darktime<br> </a><br> there are more than 100 images that i have taken of my mother's very rapid progression through alzheimer's disease. the images that appear are just a selection.=A0 as you will notice she went from a relatively healthy appearing woman in mid 1997 to a near a skeleton in restraints today in a nursing home here in california. there is nothing pretty about alzheimer's disease.<br> <br> my mother always encouraged my photography in fact, she gave me my first camera -- a brownie hawkeye -- when i was six. i drove her crazy and spent my allowances for film and developing. she stopped me from trying to take a picture of the sun when i was 8--thanks! but said that i could take a picture of her anytime because i always made her look=20 pretty.<br> <br> my m6=A0 is with me all the time so it seemed natural to chronicle her progress thru her disease toward her eventual death--which i believe is near. the images are painful to my brother and my sister just refuses to look at them. maybe this is just a way to say thanks one more time for that brownie and all that it did for me.<br> <br> anyway thank you for your thoghtful comments and more are welcome...esp. thanks eric for everything...<br> <br> all the best...<br> <br> jim<br> <br> <br> <br> <BR> </html>