[Leica] More Family Snaps

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Dec 26, 2009, at 7:54 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
wrote:

> Bob Adler showed:
> Subject: [Leica] More Family Snaps
> 
> 
>> For those of you who can stand more of my family snaps, our holiday 
>> spirit of family and silliness continued on this beautiful Christmas day:
>> http://www.rgaphoto.com/blog<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> Hi Bob,
> All are interesting, not because they are award winning HCB 
> photographs............... "BUT THE PHOTO STORY" they tell about one 
> family at a particular time of the year.
> 
> Sometimes people , all of us, yes including me, get caught up with so 
> called "magic moments" of what we might consider... GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS! 
> When in reality with families, it's the "life aspects captured" of the 
> family during their growing up! They are far more important just as we see 
> here. 50 years from now your children and grand children will be able to 
> see what "The Family" did a long longtime ago. "Jeesh and here's my great 
> great grandpa! You know the one???? Yeah the one who they put behind bars 
> for safe keeping!" ;-)
> 
> We've talked about family photo albums and how important they are to keep 
> up dated or we read stories about an unfortunate home burning and people 
> are asked, "What did you grab when getting out of the house with you?"  
> More often than not.... "I grabbed our photo albums etc etc etc" It's the 
> importance of keeping records of our families as they grow-up and lives 
> during that time.
> 
> We have a few albums that we years ago diligently stuck 4X6 prints in, 
> then life of work gets in the way and it slips by. How ever we have, not 
> shoe boxes full of prints, but at least a dozen large boxes of processed 
> film and contacts sheets, hundreds and hundreds of rolls shot during the 
> past 60 years, talk about shoe boxes? These are about the size of a case 
> of 24 bottles of beer boxes! :-) And yes over the years I probably had my 
> fair share of the beer! ;-) You can hardly carry one at a time. :-) Yes 
> one of these days I'll get them in albums! :-)
> 
> So now we're at the beginning of a New Year we should all make a 
> resolution to put our family pictures in albums and and burn CD's of the 
> images for the future. Think about it, just as we produce a LUG Year book! 
> Is that not a "photo album of this great big incredible family? "
> 
> A suggestion for next year's book? With obviously Jim Shulman's reaction 
> as the LUG book is his baby..... a number of pages at the back to have a 
> series of LUGGITES some what along Steve Barbours wonderful collection of 
> "whom we are?" A passing thought much like school year book!.

http://www.pbase.com/kididdoc/some_leica_photographers

a provocative idea... pros and cons, but most important we'll see what Jim 
thinks.  And is it worth the space that will be taken away from other ......


Steve

> cheers,
> ted
> 
> 
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