Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, if you are there still take a look: http://home.pacbell.net/kiisaka/Sara/index.html this was from a mailing list I am subscribed to, about photography: > Thanks to so many of you for a constant stream of comments > today. I am > much encouraged. > > Using a Leica was the key. As we all know, it is very > unintrusive, and > subjects were often unaware of the camera at all. > If I were using a motor-driven Nikon F2, I certainly would have been > thrown out of the hospital. > > You do notice that there were no shots of the moment of birth. There > was no way I could taken any photographs then, as my wife was holding > onto me so tightly. > > Cheers, > > Ken Iisaka kiisaka@pacbell.net > Lost in Mill Valley in Marin County, California > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Disfromage@aol.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 5:11 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux pix > > > > > > In a message dated 03/21/2000 1:55:56 PM, you wrote: > > > > <<I shot three rolls of Ilford Delta 3200 during the birth > of our new > > daughter, Sara Ellen, last week.>> > > > > Ken, > > > > What a wonderful set of photos of a truly blessed event! > You and your > family > > will treasure them for all time. If I had tried to > photograph my wife > > birthing our 2 children, I don't think I would have landed yet. She > would > > have thrown me and my camera out the window. You are a lucky man. > > > > Richard Wasserman >