Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information