Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Ted, for your continued encouragement. One thing you've reminded me is that when we show other people's courage, it builds it in us. Sonny - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Cancer Story with some Joy > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html