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dave lackey

dave lackey

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Tough 24 hours. I don't even want to talk about it.

Today has been grey and cold. Tonight only more of the same... to ease my soul, I have been listening to some music favorites from my past. And some music that just fits my present mood somehow. John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" and "Imagine" are examples of music that I am just now beginning to appreciate. :cool: I have no idea why.

So, my mind works through a lot of the music I have listened to so far and then it struck me that bad things that happen everyday should not set the tone or affect the good things. But how to express the most important things in life is a difficult thing because of all the distractions. The only way to avoid those distractions is to look at the fragility of life and it's precious short time that we have to enjoy it. Ah, that's it! But why wait?

What would you do photographically if you knew that you had only a little time left in this world? Imagine what would be important to you and how you would express that in a collection of images.

I imagine that LOVE is what I would think is the most important and that love is the motif of the collection that I would produce. Have I just happened upon that which I have recently lost? The reason for taking a photograph? Have I let it be displaced because of the bad things that have happened recently?

I think maybe "it" has been re-discovered and I should waste no time in a new documentary with a new motif.

Please post your images of "love" as you express it. I think they would be terrific.:)
 
I'll play. Gotta love a daughter like this...
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Lauren from an old Super Ikonta with Acros
 
What a great theme for a thread. Hang in there Dave, we're thinking of you. One of mine from a few years back - they're bigger now and would rather chop their arms off than walk in public holding hands. Time goes fast.

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My doctor repeats to me throughout my visit, "Where do you find joy?"

Caught a bit unprepared to answer, I felt clumsy with my initial replies. Then I realized the question was largely rhetorical, and it has since become one of my guides, and it has helped me focus on what is important.

My thoughts are with you, Dave.
 
Over the years I've taken lots of landscape photos and other "things" but In my older years I've come to realize it's the people that matter. Carry a camera. Get photos of friends and family. I hope I can get my photo files in good order before they are passed down to my daughter and the rest of the family.

Love, Laugh and Enjoy. Blessings to All. Joe
 
On phone so dont have a pic i can post. That being said I think my family would be most important thing but pictures i took would be self portraits of my everyday struggle with what was killing me.
 
Just returned from my sister's funeral in North Carolina. Here are a few images from the last visit I had with her.


Hospice chaplain get-acquainted visit



Gnome in the hospice garden


My sister, myself, January 2013
 
Gray days are the most beautiful of all to photograph!

As for what I'd do if I had only a short time left to live, I'd do nothing with photography at all. I'd spend the time with my son.
 
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