I really liked this. I like its use of old photographs and home movies, but that's beside the point really. The subject is genuinely touching.
I hope everyone can see this and I apologize if some can't.
Is this too much about life? Well OK, as David Vestal used to say.
Mike
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Beautiful. Thank you Mike.
Posted by: Patrick Dodds | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 03:45 AM
Thank you Mike.
A wonderful story.
Posted by: Pierre Charbonneau | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 10:30 AM
Mike, thank you for sharing this. A genuinely beautiful and moving video. The profundity and depth of love captured in the routine and mundane.
Posted by: Jeremy Fagan | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 10:33 AM
Amazing.
Posted by: Steve Rosenblum | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 10:49 AM
Very well done. Could even exist well without the images and just the progressive transcript. Is this an an example of recognizing one’s “timely” end as you mentioned in an earlier post?
Posted by: Bob G. | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 12:01 PM
What is the point of photography if not to freeze a moment in time? The act of taking the photo is to push back against inevitability. Documenting your life is the most relevant form of photojournalism there is. In the last few month, I have made an effort to print out as much of what I have shot of my family since I bought a digital camera as possible. That is 15 years worth of images I am wading through. I have literally tens of thousands of images I haven't looked at since they were shot. Printing, to me, is the pinnacle of the art that is photography. Plus, it makes it easy to curate and display for others. I use inexpensive photo albums and they work as good for me as they did for my grandparents. In 30 years, I will have something I can look back at and enjoy. No one else is going to keep a record of my life, so who better than me?
Posted by: Mike Hess | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 12:17 PM
Mike,
Thank you for that, it was wonderful.
M
Posted by: Michael J. Perini | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 01:32 PM
. . .not a dry eye in the house.
Posted by: Benjamin Marks | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 02:57 PM
Very touching. Reminds me the life and end of many of us.
Posted by: Marcelo Guarini | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 03:51 PM
Really lovely. Thank you.
Posted by: cecelia | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 07:46 PM
It's a nice piece, indeed. But kind of gross that it is offered up paired with ads from Hermes.
Posted by: Curtis | Thursday, 19 March 2020 at 07:54 PM