Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/08

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Subject: [Leica] Portrait: my sister
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Sep 8 01:22:43 2005

Adam, 
This is an absolutely good portrait, as well in the technical as emotional
sense.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe


> From: Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:38:15 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Portrait: my sister
> 
> Every September I make an emotional trip to Philadelphia to see my
> sister. When she was very young she contracted encephalitis, a very
> severe case, which left her severely damaged. I also go other times
> but during the first week of September they have a formal assessment
> of her condition and her needs.
> 
> She was admitted to the care of the Devereoux Foundation in the early
> 50's where she has resided since. My mother was no longer truly sane
> after her illness and the doctors felt she, and me, would do better if
> Ann were in an institution. Devereoux take wonderful care of her. When
> my mother died in 1985 it became my task to care for the sister I
> never knew.
> 
> Ann has had a bad time with a kidney infection but has rebounded. She
> has almost no language although she can sing songs she learned when
> she was very small. She cannot construct sentences although she can
> manipulate a small set of phrases to convey meaning. She likes to leaf
> through catalogs and hold little toys or stuffed animals.
> 
> She exists in some unknown space for the mind - recognizing people,
> clearly getting pleasure from the site of a duck or dog or cat or a
> deer that may come up to the building where she lives. (Her campus is
> surrounded by the suburban woods around Devon, PA) But the larger
> world is lost to her.
> 
> This is Ann, my sister.
> 
> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/09/07/_L3U5649-bw.jpg>
> 
> Thank you for sharing.
> 
> (Canon 1Ds MK II, 24-70f/2.8L, ASA 400, 1/320 @ f2.8)
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
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