Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] An Irish wake in a new land
From: "lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:28:58 -0600
References: <B8688E1A.18670%jbcollier@powersurfr.com>

What an incredibly powerful set of images. I am awed by them.

I lost my husband to cancer while caring for him at home. Your images
brought back some strong memories.
Bless you for taking them and for sharing them.
Lea

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From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: [Leica] An Irish wake in a new land


: 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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