[Leica] ... this is our work ....

["claire" <clairetm@singnet.com.sg>]

Dear friends.....
Went back to office today to a pleasant surprise after 2 weeks of tough
reservist in camp training........ ( thank God I am still in one piece).....

A large flat brown package containing Ted Grant's "This is our Work" sat
neatly on my tableside......

I opened it at home, only to find a wonderfully emotive photo essay about
medical work...... and it was personally autographed too....... nice .......

I liked the plates around 83 - 89 ........ the 'newborn' series..... I could
identify with the father (I assume) cradling the baby........ it is truly a
very unique and special feeling..... Each time is uniquely different..... I
was the first (or rather second) to carry my children when they were born
right there in the delivery room..... and that I was the first human face
they saw when they opened their eyes for the first time.....

I am expecting my third child come August 2000....... Its gonna be a
boy..... my second.....

When U mentioned in your book....... "what a nice shot this would be " as U
drifted under the anaesthesia........ it made me remember how I was so
bothered about those darn stupid hopelessly boring , clinically white
suspended ceilings..... its a real torture to be a patient lying down facing
that same monotonous ceiling every where U are being wheeled around the
hospital........ can't stand it...... If I had a chance, I would give it a
try and do something about it. (Of course, hospital projects don't come
along everyday.......... so I guess that's that)

How true ...... "the most important person in an operating theatre  - is the
patient".... Plate 47 ...Hospitals should be designed from the perspective
of a bedridden patient......

Ceilings would change,
windows would change,
the lighting would change.......

Anyway, thanks Ted for sharing with us ..... its a nice coffee table book to
have ... a rather large one at that......

The last pic..... was that R lens a R28/2.8 ?

And how did U take all those pics ? Were U lugging around a huge bag full of
those lenses U mentioned ? Wouldn't the surgeons have minded.... ?

Peace
TMLee