Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote... - ---- Still life ======= "Could you take a picture of my mother?" inquired the female telephone caller. Bill Lingard, my partner and fellow photographer replied, "Yes, when would you like to come to the studio, I'm sure we can fit you in during the next few days?" "I'm sorry it will have to be tomorrow before noon, as the service is at two," was her reply. The service she referred to was her mother's funeral service." - ---- I can appreciate the exerience you had with that 'sitting" ( or is it "laying"? :))... I recall two sitting / layings of my own...seeing the prints coming up in the tray of developer was a haunting feeling for me...like Dracula was looking over my shoulder and breathing down my neck veins...it gave me the heebie-jeebies for weeks in my nightmares...and cured me of EVER shooting another one! I must say, though...the image were razor SHARP...no movement at all from the models on the negs! Why...I bet I coulda shot them at 1 sec exposure and they STILL wooda bin sharp!...ED.