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Weekly theme: Patience

Location: Somerset, NJ
Date taken: 2008
Film: Kodak TMax 400
Camera: Canon AE-1
Lens: wide angle
Focal Length: unknown
Exposure Time: unknown
Aperture: unknown
ISO: 400
Macro: No
Edited: Photoshop CS3 and Picasa 3 on MacBook

About the photo: This is a photograph of my paternal grandmother about a year before she passed away. I had a roll of portraits of both of my grandmothers that has been waiting to be scanned for many years. The Pictory theme, Learning from Our Elders, got me to scan them this week. I opted to submit one of my maternal grandmother to Pictory and use Toby for this Sunday's theme. There is a wonderful combination of strength and tenderness in this photo: strength in her crossed arms, tenderness in her facial expression and slightly titled head. She was so patient with me as I took her photograph that day. As the matriarch of our family, my grandmother showed a considerable amount of stubbornness and I was worried that would come through in the photos. I'm was so very pleased to see this tenderness in its place and I wish I had scanned the photo much sooner.

photo categories: B&W, Bill, Patience
tags: chair, doilie, frame, glasses, jewelry, portrait, room, table, woman

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