[Leica] IMG - portraits

[felixmaturana at telefonica.net (FŽelix L—opez de Maturana)]

>
> 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
>
>   
A nice collection of human beings phtographs. I have taken many thousand 
pictures in the last fifty years but the most I appreciate are from people.

Regards

Felix