Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi John, Both my parents passed away last year about a month apart. I am the eldest son of the family. Mine was the last face my mother looked at during her last moment on earth. But like you I couldn't make it to the hospital on time when my father passed away. You images took me by surprise as I casually clicked open your image files, like I've clicked open so many other image files by others of the LUG. Emotions they stirred up had me take a deep breath as I read a little bit afterwards what the images were about . . . My deepest sympathies. Edmund Lo - - ----- 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. > > : John Collier : - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html