Fruit of Your Loins

[wclavey]

Here is my son... 20 years to reach this point... This shot was taken with a Bronica S2A, but there is an LF connection... I was out shooting at the beach the day of this shot and he was surfing - - right before he went back to college this past summer. I almost always have a second camera with me, and when he came out of the water to rest, I fired off an entire roll of film without his knowledge - - he didn't see the pictures until he came home for Christmas. If you look at the reflection in his sunglasses, you will see the tripod with the 4x5 mounted on it to the left of the station wagon.

[Vaughn]

The latest photo of my boys...

Three Snags, Three Boys, 2008
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

Zone VI 8x18, Fuji W 300/5.6
Ilford FP4+
Scanned platinum/palladium Print

They will be 11 at the end of March
Lf. to rt.: Calder, Bryce and Alex

I can't remember if I have shown this image here before.

Vaughn

[George Kara]

Lovely image Vaughn. Perfect setting for boys. Great place for boys to play and explore.

George

[Vaughn]

A negative from 2005, but first good print of it last week in the same session as the other posted image.

The Boys, Above Omstead Point, 2005
Yosemite National Park

Scanned 8x10 Platinum/palladium Print
lf to rt...Alex, Bryce & Calder

Ilford FP4+, Fuji W 300/5.6, f65 at 1/8 second

[Struan Gray]

When we get together with other parents of twins there is a common chorus of "Imagine Triplets!". Hats off for getting all three of them to stand still long enough to trip the shutter.

wclavey: that scar suggests some heroic parenting too.

[wclavey]

wclavey: that scar suggests some heroic parenting too.

Yes, he was born with multiple congenital birth defects... he had his first corrective surgery when he was 4 weeks old. That visible vertical scar is from his open heart surgery when he was 5 months old and the circular scar is from his gastrostomy tube. He is fine now. I never think about it anymore and I am always surprised when someone sees it or comments on it - - it is something we lived with and I forget that other people don't know about it.

[Struan Gray]

I raise my hat twice. First for coping. Second for not letting it define his life for him.

This triptych is a little old now, taken a couple of years ago. I don't do much portraiture on LF, but they enjoy tripping the Sinar shutter on each other now and then. As soon as the gloom lifts and we get some light in the house it's time for another session.

[akalai]

No doubt the twin in the Wallabies jersey is the good one....

[Struan Gray]

They both have equally good taste: they were only wearing the Springboks/Wallabies shirts because the Scotland ones were in the wash again :-)

[Bill Kumpf]

This is our from annual beach vacation. This includes my wife (sitting) and me (old man in the back row), our seven kids, three of the significant others, and our seven grand kids.
Shot off a tripod with the self timer