[Leica] Neighbors

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

They're all very nice in terms of comfort level and tone.
  Lovely portraits.

Number six (the vertical) seems a bit leggy to me.

Ric


On Mar 18, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Wade Heninger wrote:

> When we moved into our current home about 4 years ago, we were  
> delighted to
> find a charming couple living in the house to our immediate north.   
> Since
> our initial acquaintance, they have been valued neighbors and the  
> source of
> much knowledge regarding the area, our home (there were some  
> interesting
> past owners) and all things shrub/tree/flower.
>
> The patriarch of this family grew up in this little Swedish mill  
> town, and
> his wife was the daughter of a British official in Hong Kong.  They  
> met
> during WWII and after "that unfortunate mess" they married and  
> moved back to
> town to raise their daughter and work in the mill.
>
> He's going on 87 now, and I suspect his wife is near there as well,  
> although
> I've never asked nor been told.  He still is out working in the  
> yard every
> day - pruning, digging and working his small patch of land.  Just  
> yesterday
> he was complaining that his insurance was going up - Safeco  
> informed him
> that he was now in the same class as a 15 year old male driver, which
> tickled him despite the astronomic costs associated with such a  
> milestone.
>
> I've been meaning to get over and photograph them, so under the  
> pretext of
> learning this whole "lighting" thing, I finally got over to visit  
> before
> they headed off to church.
>
> http://heninger.org/gallery/neighbors
>
> M8, Summicron 35 and 50
>
> TIA
>
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