[Leica] More Family Snaps

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Couldn't agree more Dr.!
Each year we print our family favorites of the year and put them in shoe 
boxes. We're certainly not as prolific as you, but the idea is rock solid.
Works for any kind of family, as you suggest.
Thank you for looking and commenting, and best to you and yours in the new 
year,
Bob
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
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Sent: Sat, December 26, 2009 7:54:25 AM
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Bob Adler showed:
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> For those of you who can stand more of my family snaps, our holiday spirit 
> of family and silliness continued on this beautiful Christmas day:
> http://www.rgaphoto.com/blog<<<<<<<<<<<<

Hi Bob,
All are interesting, not because they are award winning HCB 
photographs............... "BUT THE PHOTO STORY" they tell about one family 
at a particular time of the year.

Sometimes people , all of us, yes including me, get caught up with so called 
"magic moments" of what we might consider... GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS! When in 
reality with families, it's the "life aspects captured" of the family during 
their growing up! They are far more important just as we see here. 50 years 
from now your children and grand children will be able to see what "The 
Family" did a long longtime ago. "Jeesh and here's my great great grandpa! 
You know the one???? Yeah the one who they put behind bars for safe 
keeping!" ;-)

We've talked about family photo albums and how important they are to keep up 
dated or we read stories about an unfortunate home burning and people are 
asked, "What did you grab when getting out of the house with you?"  More 
often than not.... "I grabbed our photo albums etc etc etc" It's the 
importance of keeping records of our families as they grow-up and lives 
during that time.

We have a few albums that we years ago diligently stuck 4X6 prints in, then 
life of work gets in the way and it slips by. How ever we have, not shoe 
boxes full of prints, but at least a dozen large boxes of processed film and 
contacts sheets, hundreds and hundreds of rolls shot during the past 60 
years, talk about shoe boxes? These are about the size of a case of 24 
bottles of beer boxes! :-) And yes over the years I probably had my fair 
share of the beer! ;-) You can hardly carry one at a time. :-) Yes one of 
these days I'll get them in albums! :-)

So now we're at the beginning of a New Year we should all make a resolution 
to put our family pictures in albums and and burn CD's of the images for the 
future. Think about it, just as we produce a LUG Year book! Is that not a 
"photo album of this great big incredible family? "

A suggestion for next year's book? With obviously Jim Shulman's reaction as 
the LUG book is his baby..... a number of pages at the back to have a series 
of LUGGITES some what along Steve Barbours wonderful collection of "whom we 
are?" A passing thought much like school year book!.
cheers,
ted


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