Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] IMG - portraits
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:33:59 +1000
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John you've made a fine family album and they are certainly worthy of
sharing here too. Families are one of the very best reasons to have good
cameras.
The Laphroaig shot is priceless.

2009/4/2 John Beeching <johnbeeching at gmail.com>

> Dear All,
>
>
>
> 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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> http://alturl.com/izh8
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> http://alturl.com/rz73
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> http://alturl.com/4e8m
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>
> John
>
>
> --
> John Beeching
> http://johnbeeching.com/
>
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-- 
Cheers
Geoff
'Life's too short for mediocre glass'
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