Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Sonny, Absolutely first class mon ami!!! It can't get any better than that! Thank you for sharing both the story and the portrait. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ----- Original Message ----- From: "(SonC) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:59 PM Subject: [Leica] Another Cancer Story with some Joy > For the past few days I have shared some pictures from the Relay for Life. > As you may have read, our little community raised more than $90,000 for the > fight against cancer. > > An interesting thing happened the day after the Relay. I was invited to a > Couchon du Lait, (A Louisiana traditional Pork roast.) I got into a > conversation with a friend, who told me this story about her husband. > > It seems that he came down with Hodgkin's Disease, a lymphatic Cancer, and > they had struggled for most of the past year with treatment, and now he is > in remission. > > I won't go into the whole story, but there are many of you who have been > touched by this, either yourselves or a friend or someone you love, so many > of you get the picture. > > Which brings me to this. The Picture. I tried several sniping shots, > (candids) but they just were not working. So I noticed his daughter kept > running up, and I said, "I need to get a shot of you two together." > > Her mom said she should take the pretzel out of her mouth; I over-ruled Mom. > > Anyhow here is the portrait I took of Mark and his daughter. I hope he > lives a hundred years. > > http://www.sonc.com/relay/mark.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html