[Leica] IMG: good deeds

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Hi Nathan,

Nice coverage and congratulations to the crew doing a good deed for others. 

I think my most satisfying and story telling photo is the young lad holding
his graduating certificate all smiles. :-) Kind of says it all!  Wonderful
to see the reactions of unfortunates when they are given an opportunity to
be, "one of the crew!"

 

Thanks for posting as it's a heart warming series.

Cheers,

ted 

Subject: [Leica] IMG: good deeds

>>>>On Wednesday evening I posted a picture from a bar which a lot of  

people liked. Here is the rest of the story of that afternoon.

 

Some time ago I was approached by the husband of one of the employees  

on my team (he also works at the office but in a different  

department). He told me that he was part of a diving group which was  

working with a foundation called APADIS. APADIS seeks to help mentally  

handicapped people integrate into society in various ways, sports and  

outdoors activities being one of them. So my colleague's diving club  

was going to spend an afternoon giving 5 people with Down's Syndrome  

an experience with diving in a large pool belonging to APADIS.

 

They wanted their work documented so that the pictures could be used  

for fund-raising and publicity. Clare, our "official" in-house  

photographer, and I went along. In Clare's words, for her it was very  

gratifying to photograph something other than men in suits (she  

usually photographs office events like visiting delegations etc.). She  

did her kind of photography, and I did mine. She used a Canon DSLR  

with a big lens and took care of the group shots and much else. I  

stuck to my M8 and used just two lenses, the 35mm for most of the  

pictures, and the 24mm for the latter part of the afternoon, using my  

legs to zoom. Hopefully between us we have covered the event in the  

way the divers wanted.

 

I have posted a small selection of my images here:

 

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