Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] funerals
From: "Tim Spragens" <info@borderless-photos.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:28:24 +0100

On 27 Jan 2001, at 11:49, Lee Bacchus wrote:

> I once brought a totally inappropriate tool (a Rolleiflex TLR) while
> visiting my 97-year-old grandmother in her dimly lit nursing home. As
> she was into her final weeks I felt some moral queasiness about the
> whole thing but shot anyway. The result
> (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=150404&size=lg )was
> something a bit spooky and for sure it does not hang on my wall.

Certainly eerie. Are you saying the Rollei was inappropriate due to 
the angle used for the shot?