Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - ----- Original Message ----- 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 : : : : -- : To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html : - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html