Thank you.

With great appreciation,
Shehila

I appreciate your acknowledgment of my beloved Sam’s amazingly beautiful work. I have a wonderful album of beautiful photos of me, full of love, that he did in our early years when he spent a lot of time in the darkroom. You can see other of his black and white photography at http://www.naturesplayground.com/photography.html.

I love your poetic expression using the chimney swift and the bunnies. You speak of the “seeing” and the “capturing”. Especially with today’s digital photography and computers there is the added “seeing” of it once again, often newly and in different ways. It was only very recently, long after hearing people speak of the “Digital Darkroom” – Photoshop and other editing programs, that I full began to appreciate all that Sam brought to his work in the darkroom, in addition to his great eye.

Thanks again for your sharing.

With great appreciation,

Sheila

I just love the black and white photo experience all around! That photograph of you is just stunning. To be seen through the eyes of a photographer with that much adoration is heavenly. So glad you shared this with the world.

I enjoy capturing the small moments that mean so much in a photo, but as the second passes, when the chimney swift flits away from the lens, when the bunny shimmies under the woodpile, an static vision evaporates also. It’s then that I think, it was in the seeing of it that is the miracle, the capturing of it is another!

My mom-in-law, Peg, passed in December of 2008, and I wanted to memorialize her liveliness, which comes across in every photograph I see of her. I am grateful for learning technology like wordpress that can give me an outlet for those memories.

Your photography is a gift. Thank you for enjoying it so much and sharing it.
best for now,
Mary

Much appreciation, Morgine