[Leica] IMG - portraits

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

John,

You should be proud of those great photos.  They will be a lot more 
memorable twenty years from now.  Thanks for sharing them with us.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Beeching" <johnbeeching at gmail.com>
To: "LeicaUsersGroup" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG - portraits


> Dear All,
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> Portraits, especially of family members tend to be personal and often best
> confined to family albums.  Despite this, I am tempted to make these 
> public
> for very private reasons.  The pictures are bordered by the last photos I
> took of my parents before their deaths; my father?s over seven years ago 
> and
> my mother?s last Sunday.  My father never saw my third child as he died in
> another country three weeks after Jack?s birth; however, they share the 
> same
> name, which may present the young lad with a bit of a challenge to live up
> to.  My mother, though well into her 80?s kept her faculties and 
> creativity
> to the end, presenting me with her latest books at Christmas; however, she
> knew her time had come and welcomed death as an end.  Sandwiched between
> these two photos are pictures mainly of my little boy and my wife, though 
> my
> daughter (though not my eldest son), half-sister and husband, father in 
> law,
> step-mother and niece?s husband also appear, as do a few friends and 
> myself.
>
> http://johnbeeching.com/portrait/album/index.html
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> John
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> -- 
> John Beeching
> http://johnbeeching.com/
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