Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html