Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 31, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I just received my copy today, and like Ted, I found it impossible > to put down even though I was at the office... > > Well done, Steve! thanks very much Nathan... my wife agrees, and she's a pretty severe critic... I feared she wouldn't pick it up, now she can't put it down... for me it's been a way of reconnecting with many parents and families, as well as old friends.... Steve > And aside from the slight imperfection in the binding (I got the > hardcover), the quality of the printing is impeccable. > > Nathan > > On 30-mrt-2008, at 21:46, Ted Grant wrote: > >> "I never wanted to be famous." >> >> Steve's hard cover book. >> >> Yep we've seen some of the photos one frame at a time and generally >> held in >> awe at what Dr. Steve Barbour captured under extremely emotional >> times. >> >> However the book Dr. Barbour created is absolutely spell binding! >> >> You can't do the quick time glance and, "I'll come back later when >> I have >> more time." It doesn't wash, nor work, you put the world at bay >> instead and >> let it wait! This incredible heart clutching collection of >> photographs, so >> well taken and assembled, each page supports the next carrying an >> extremely >> emotional heart warming image supporting the next. >> >> Not in pain or ill feelings, but in awe of kids in almost every >> state of >> emotion and recovery they can be. >> >> As tear jerking as some can be, these little kids rise above our >> adult >> "sorrowful feelings" we have thinking of children in hospital. One >> photograph can evoke from the hardest nosed toughie amongst us a >> feeling of >> , "oh the poor little guy or girl!" And yet in each there's a >> message of >> hope and survival that kids have we don't necessarily see when the >> child is >> our own. >> >> In fact a few of these pictures illustrate children at what appears >> their >> worse, when in reality they are at their fighting best! We see some >> as >> pretty tough looking cookies on one page and great big smiling >> faces the >> next! >> >> I believe every mother, father and grand parent should have this >> book as a >> comfort book when they're world feels like it's a disaster when one >> of their >> own is ill. In reality the book can evoke wonderful feelings of >> hope and >> understanding that there is a Great Spirit who pulls these little >> folks >> through the worst hell we adults can fear. >> >> If you don't have a copy, you can't order it fast enough! As it's >> just a >> plain good old fashion spell binding feel good book page after page! >> >> Well done mon ami Steve, Good on you, it's a beauty! >> >> ted >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > Nathan Wajsman > nathan@nathanfoto.com > General photography: > http://www.nathanfoto.com > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > Book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/128276 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information best, Steve kididdoc@cox.net "I never wanted to be famous" http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/186890