Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour wrote & showed: >>> Brittany's Swansong.... > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-27398.html > M7 35mm pre ASPH Tri X > > a memory for a beautiful friend, patient, aspiring actress...<<<< Hi Steve, First class photograph and with your words makes it a far more telling picture. Would one do anything different? Nope! As everything is right there in the viewers face creating a very strong story telling photograph. There are times as photographers we're confronted with emotional situations before our cameras that after we're done it leaves us crying or completely drained, as in my photography with the Chernobyl Children. And I'm sure in your case similar situations some days. But what it speaks of in your case when dealing with a child on a daily basis, is your strength of character & person enabling you to care for children as a profession. In my case at least I knew it wasn't going to be a lifetime, but it was day after day of children in various states from the effects of the nuclear disaster and treatments they were enduring. After weeks it became absolutely so draining to a point, some days I had to leave off and go find a quiet place where I could cry myself dry because I began to equate what I saw in these children the fate of my grandchildren or worse, if ever there was a nuclear war or a similar disaster in North America Your ability to record some of the tender moments with your patients and to share with the crew is admirable, as I see it using photography to make many of us aware of the plight of children who require TLC. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html