Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 30, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > "I never wanted to be famous." > > Steve's hard cover book. > > Yep we've seen some of the photos one frame at a time and generally > held in > awe at what Dr. Steve Barbour captured under extremely emotional > times. > > However the book Dr. Barbour created is absolutely spell binding! > > You can't do the quick time glance and, "I'll come back later when I > have > more time." It doesn't wash, nor work, you put the world at bay > instead and > let it wait! This incredible heart clutching collection of > photographs, so > well taken and assembled, each page supports the next carrying an > extremely > emotional heart warming image supporting the next. > > Not in pain or ill feelings, but in awe of kids in almost every > state of > emotion and recovery they can be. > > As tear jerking as some can be, these little kids rise above our adult > "sorrowful feelings" we have thinking of children in hospital. One > photograph can evoke from the hardest nosed toughie amongst us a > feeling of > , "oh the poor little guy or girl!" And yet in each there's a > message of > hope and survival that kids have we don't necessarily see when the > child is > our own. > > In fact a few of these pictures illustrate children at what appears > their > worse, when in reality they are at their fighting best! We see some as > pretty tough looking cookies on one page and great big smiling faces > the > next! > > I believe every mother, father and grand parent should have this > book as a > comfort book when they're world feels like it's a disaster when one > of their > own is ill. In reality the book can evoke wonderful feelings of hope > and > understanding that there is a Great Spirit who pulls these little > folks > through the worst hell we adults can fear. > > If you don't have a copy, you can't order it fast enough! As it's > just a > plain good old fashion spell binding feel good book page after page! > > Well done mon ami Steve, Good on you, it's a beauty! wow Ted ! it doesn't get any better than that... thank you, Steve > > > ted