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I liked the stillness of this shot. I was asked to do a few photos at my cousin's service. I felt weird but managed to be unobtrusive.Related content
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I'm sorry for your loss as well.
You did a lovely job of this photo for the mother and the absent party.
Without the individual it wouldn't be the photo it is. If you could see the woman's face it would be more about them rather than your cousin and people paying their respects. And with the emphasis on the woman standing before the flowers and the photos seen alongside, it gives a sense of being more about your cousin's life than her death.
Really beautiful.
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I love your comment. Thank you.
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a scene at once so familiar but so unfamiliar to the lens...
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Yes. It felt awkward to be taking photos, but I was asked to for a particular reason by her mother. There was someone who could not be present and she wanted a few photos. I felt it captured the right feeling.
Thanks for the poetic comment.
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this is a great work myrna!!ilove it!!
this is in you're house??
Neo
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so sorry for your losing a loved one.
the subdued aura of this adds such a somber beauty.
Thanks for sharing.
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I'm sorry about your loss. Your image is really great. It has a antique quality to it...a hushed somberness.
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Thanks so much. I'm happy it turned out as well as it did.
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Your shot is very intense...the stillness reaches out of it.
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Wow, thanks. I love that comment!
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that is a heavy moment to document...
this is brilliant .
well done.
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Thanks. I felt so reticent and perhaps that shows too. thanks.
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i can understand why...
you managed some how.
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you did this so tastefully...that must have been a very hard thing to do. sorry about your cousin....
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Thank you. She was very ill in many ways and even her mother knows it is best she didn't suffer any more.
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This is a really nice photo. Reminds me of my Grandma's service 4 years back. Sorry to hear of your loss.
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Thanks, wes. How is your life now days?
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Ah, its touch and go. Good overall I suppose. Just relaxing before some more classes, trying to get my band off the ground and gigging soon, and getting over an awful cold. How about yourself?
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I'm trying (with great difficulty) to put together a portfolio. A friend showed his gallery a couple of my images and they want to see more. It's hard to narrow it down since I don't know what he showed them.
I'm hating being in Michigan and not in California... I miss the feeling of life there. People are very different, far less conservative and much more alive. (perhaps that goes together). Dan (husband) has a gig in Idaho at some festival so we will be going there andthen on to Cali for a fun 4 weeks or so and I'm happy about both the road trip and where we are going. photo time!
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Wow. Yeah, that's always tough - but that sounds awesome. I just re-did mine, and hopefully I'll build a website soon too.
California would seem like the preferred spot for me as well - though I'm not a fan of L.A. much. I'm going to San Francisco in August to see Rage Against The Machine at a Hip-Hop show with some friends, and hopefully we'll live it up Jack Keroac / Beatnik style. I hear Oregon is quite nice too.
Is your husband with a group then? I remember he plays trumpet, but I didn't know at what level or whether he played in a band or solo. Yeah, should be a great photo op! Have fun for sure.
I think working as a Staff Photographer for UVic's student newspaper last school year killed my passion for photography... Its been hard to revitalize, but I'm getting there again. Funny, at the time when I'm best with my technique / talent, I'm the least interested. Gah.
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Yes, you'd like California... various parts. I have a love hate relationship with LA. If there were fewer cars, it would be a great city...if only if only. SF is one of my favorite places in the world. I lived and worked there for about 4 years. I know you'll enjoy yourselves... yes, go to the 'old haunts' at North Beach... and be sure, if you have time to check out Golden gate park too..it's huge and great for hanging out.
My husband is a pro. He plays all the time both in his own group and with others. Actually he has several groups. One is fairly traditional with tough jazz charts for a quintet. Another is a loosely formed group where he uses an echoplex type of thing ( and a real one from the 70s!) and is very late Miles in feel with a bit of hip hop beat and bass too. 
Now you know more than you need to about that.
Oh, and regarding the 'loss of appetite' for photography... it will come back. My mother never ate ice cream after working for a year at a shoppe that served the stuff. and my oldest son, Duke, has always refused to "work" at writing for that exact reason. He loves to write and doesn't want to lose that. Just take that camera with you ...or a small, who cares one, and start taking photos of whatever. Lets see some parts of your world I've not seen yet.
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Thanks ever so much. I really do love this shot.
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the distance is so deep.
beautiful shot.
It must be very dificult..
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Thank you very much. It was strange to take pictures but I was asked by her mother to do so.
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I can imagine that was difficult.
The result is very good. I cannot see it as someone from the family would, of course, but even to me it has a high emotionnal impact.
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I'm so pleased it comes across as I'd wished. thank you.
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This is a beautifully rendered image of an unusual subject.
I have my own beliefs about funerals. The first three letters spell fun. You should come to mine.
Kate
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In our family they are fun too... but not so much for my cousin really. At my husbands parents and my parents too, we had music.. Dixieland funeral! Totally fun.
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Yeah, at mine they'll play a recording of Groucho Marx singing "Hello, I must be going"
Kate
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Wow Myrna. This is one of your best photographs - it totally captures the atmospher of the moment.
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I've been a bit surprised at the response to this one. It's such a delicate subject...especially in our culture. thanks for the support!
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a touching image. it renders a very intimate view, quite as if it was the dead person's soul taking a glance. maybe you had a silent, invisible and lovely guide on you side that night.
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You brought tears to my eyes! I think you are right.
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who knows... after all, the departed still live in our thoughts, and this can change our way to behave and react, just as if they were actually present. we really know absolutely nothing of what there is beyond life, if there is something. we can hope, or believe, or wish, or all these together, but in the end all we have is our ability to give a meaning to our feelings, and this is, imho, a suggestive way to think that we will last in our beloved ones.
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I agree. You are magical! If everyone thought like us, the world would be a much better place.
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yes, or at least maybe
some more common sense and less arrogance would be enough.
maybe
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This is a very beautiful photo 
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Thanks. Under the circumstances, it was time for her to start over in a new and better body.
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Wow, you are the second to say that... and I love that comment. I don't know who that woman was... but now maybe I do.
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