Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] An Irish wake in a new land
From: Douglas Lee <douglas_lee_2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:54:04 -0800 (PST)

John, thank you for sharing...


- --- John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com> wrote:
> An Irish wake in a new land
> 
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=176307
> 
> Though I have been using my cameras a great deal
> this past year, I have been
> avoiding developing my last B&W exposures from early
> April. Finally on
> Christmas day I got up the courage to process, scan
> and print the film.
> Images that had not yet faded from my mind greeted
> me as the printer snorted
> and snuffled its way through the paper.
> 
> My father had past away while I was on my way home
> so I was not there to
> wish him god speed; only a few hours too late. My
> family and I stayed with
> him that night in the hospital and my mother slept
> one last night with him.
> In the morning he was still warm from my mother's
> closeness. The women of
> the family stripped and washed the body and we
> dressed him in fresh clothes
> before the morticians came to take him away.
> 
> I was not sure what the reaction to the prints would
> be. Tears, yes, but not
> despair. I am sure that none of the prints will be
> displayed but I am also
> sure they will be much thumbed through in the
> decades to come.
> 
> Cameras are strange devices, what you see is
> certainly not what you get.
> 
> John Collier
> 
> 
> 
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