Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Zeissler, Mitch" wrote: > > <Shudder> > > That's about the same image I was confronted with recently when my 79 year > old father-in-law was hospitalized with pneumonia [the same generous soul > that gave me my Leicas]. Since things were very grim, I took the M3 and > Noct, but upon seeing just how bad he looked, I refrained from taking any > pictures at all. Later, my wife said she was glad I hadn't taken any shots > of him looking that way. > > Fortunately, he is now on the road to recovery. > > /Mitch Zeissler Lee - Nana's Hand is one truly fantastic photograph. Producing images such as that is what photography is all about. Terrific. Wonderful. Upsetting. Disturbing. Graphic. Great. B. D. > -----Original Message----- > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:49:24 -0800 > From: Lee Bacchus <lbacchus@home.com> > Subject: [Leica] funerals > > <SNIP> > > while visiting my 97-year-old grandmother in her dimly lit nursing home. As > she was into her final weeks I felt some moral queasiness about the whole > thing but shot anyway. The result > (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=150404&size=lg ) > was something a bit spooky and for sure it does not hang on my wall. > > Lee Bacchus > Vancouver