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Subject: [Leica] Loss....
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Oct 6 11:30:17 2008
References: <4cfa589b0810052002h3639b70dt107589bf06d462d4@mail.gmail.com> <CF9A0ECA-A504-4C1D-9BAD-B030D2F478C7@mac.com> <4cfa589b0810060758q3cbba998wd29df1e85d167519@mail.gmail.com>

On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> Thank you, Barney, for your support and your excellent idea. An "I
> Love You Gallery" will be a part of my immediate future.
>
> And to all of those from the LUG who wrote to me privately: thank you
> for your support and kind words.
>
> I didn't expect such an outpouring and find it only solidifies what a
> special place this is.


when you are able Adam, please send me a photo of you for the leica  
photog gallery,


Steve
>
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Barney Quinn <bjq1@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Adam,
>>
>> I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for posting your thoughts and  
>> feelings
>> and thank you for the reminder. This is a lesson I keep trying to  
>> learn but
>> somehow never do. The time to tell the people whom you love that  
>> you love
>> them is today, and the time to make a portrait of them is this  
>> instant. I
>> remember something from years ago when I was a young man. My 84  
>> year old
>> grandfather came over for dinner. We sat around the dining room  
>> table for
>> hours listening to him tell stories. I was a broadcast engineer at  
>> the time.
>> I kept telling myself that I should really go upstairs and get my  
>> tape
>> recorded. I never did because I was just too far into enjoying his  
>> stories.
>> A few days later he was dead. He always said that all he wanted in  
>> life was
>> a great grand child. My cousin Chuck and his wife had their first  
>> child
>> later that week. My Grandpa had the great grand child whom he  
>> wanted. He was
>> life was complete, at least in his eyes, and very soon after he  
>> died of a
>> massive heart attack. I still regret not having those stories on  
>> tape. I am
>> convinced that the evening of stories he graced us was his way of  
>> saying
>> good bye. I think he knew. He'd lived as long as he cared to live.  
>> Long
>> years later I still wish I had a recording.
>>
>> I know exactly what you mean. Perhaps we should all start a group  
>> project.
>> Perhaps we should all start making and posting pictures of those we  
>> love.
>> Perhaps it would even make a good blurb book. If each of us doesn't  
>> have an
>> I love you Book we should at least have an I love you gallery.
>>
>> Barney
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>>
>>> I lost a dear friend today. His name was Jack Crow4ell. (The 4 is  
>>> silent.)
>>>
>>> He had a PhD in Physics from Johns Hopkins, his undergraduate work  
>>> at
>>> Georgia Tech. He went to conservatory at Peabody. He sustained his
>>> passion for choral music, that informed his soul about the world,  
>>> the
>>> world about his soul. H did with wonderfully complicated work in the
>>> bowels of operating systems. He knew DEC's RT-11 inside and out,
>>> almost as well as the folks at Digital who actually wrote the  
>>> code. He
>>> was a gentleman. He was creative. He had a love for the creative,  
>>> for
>>> language, for the world. He grew up in Mobile, Alabama and always  
>>> was
>>> a creature of the South - the very best parts of the South.
>>>
>>> I didn't ever make his portrait. I was always so busy enjoying his
>>> company, the joy of his existence, the belief that he would be here
>>> forever, that I never picked up my camera and snapped an image.
>>>
>>> Do not do this.
>>>
>>> I so deeply regret that all the time we were making Halloween  
>>> faces on
>>> a floor-full of huge orange Halloween balloons that I never snapped
>>> his photo. Never. He'd just be here FOREVER. I have the MEMORIES  
>>> but I
>>> cannot share those. I cannot show you the dragon pumpkin he carved
>>> that enraptured my children so when they think of "Uncle Jack" that
>>> amazing pumpkin is always there in the first few sentences.
>>>
>>> Last year he had cancer and last weekend, while I was in Arizona, he
>>> got bronchitis. My other partner from a previous life, Bob, took him
>>> his meds (Jack lived alone) but when he didn't make his doctor's
>>> appointment the next day, and didn't answer the phone, they sent the
>>> police who found him.
>>>
>>> I feel bereft. How could I have left such a wonderful human being
>>> without an image that I made, that shares the bond between
>>> photographer and subject/friend?
>>>
>>> I do not know. But the emptiness inside me knows I should pass along
>>> this deeply hurtful lesson. Please, record those around you. Let  
>>> your
>>> love and passion inform you. Do the portraits. Save them. Cherish
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Go forth and make good work that's personal and passionate of those
>>> you know and love.
>>>
>>> I have learned why and the consequences of not doing so.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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>>
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