My mother in law turned 107 a few months ago. I'm just now processing the roll. Lazy me. I thought it fitting that I use film so I dug out some frozen fujichrome fortia SP (ASA 50), loaded up the Nikon and off I went.
There's a different crop of it here: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/658112/48#8079354 I digitized it with a home made duplicator. I used 20 times oversampling to remove any noise introduced by the dIMAGE A2's sensor. I guess it worked. It's not that great an image I think. It shows off the lens and the duplicator some maybe - especially if you see the 100% version... pretty sweet! But I just thought: making it to a hundred and seven... Wow! I might post more as I do them I dunno. This is just the 1st one I did.
I hope you enjoy it. Crits and comments wanted and welcome - as usual!
107 and still able to sit up, take nourishment and move under her own power! That is truly an accomplishment. You should try to get a few portrait type shots of this remarkable lady!
Steady Hand wrote:
WOW!
107!!!
Tell her happy birthday for me.
That is a long life.
Thanks. Next I see her I'll giver her the good tidings.
pixelwarp wrote:
Hope you're happy with your wife if she got the longevity genes from Mom!
My wife left this plane in 2005 on 9/11 at 11 minutes after 9 am. Ovarian cancer. But maybe the kids will get some of it. Especially since both my grandparents made it past 100 and my father to 98.
northern nurse wrote:
107 and still able to sit up, take nourishment and move under her own power! That is truly an accomplishment. You should try to get a few portrait type shots of this remarkable lady!
She wouldn't let me get close. She's not that into Americans in the first place and she didn't dig being photographed. And I brought 50 ASA film so no long lens shots either. But yeah, I think she can still ride a bicycle too. I know for sure she cooks for herself most of the time.
My Simple Suggestion: You should write a book about their life and their "secrets" to long lives. Include their favorite foods, drinks, exercise, thoughts, stress relief methods, etc.. Then print some copies and give those to the kids/grandkids/greatgrandkids etc...along with photos you take of the living and include those that are already gone. I think that would be a nice "legacy" project.
Well my grandparents were beef and potatoes people. Nothing special - just grocery store food. Till they were about 25 or 30 they lived on a farm though. One in N. Dakota and one in Wisconsin. Grocery store food these days is not the same though. Mercury in the corn syrup and that corn syrup is used in everything almost. Fluoride in the water supply now these days, etc. etc. I guess people don't stand much a chance these days. If they had a secret besides not being poisoned by the government, it was routine. Very steady people! Grandpa chewed fine-cut Copenhagen tobacco 6 or 8 times a day most of his life.
Bifurcator wrote:
My wife left this plane in 2005 on 9/11 and 11 minutes after nine am. Ovarian cancer. But maybe the kids will get some of it. Especially since both my grandparents made it past 100 and my father to 98.
I'm sorry. I had no way of knowing. Sorry if my comment was out of line.
Bifurcator wrote:
No, no. it's all good. Don't worry. We all die you know. No apology needed. I still miss her and all but you weren't out of line or anything.
1. The one in the other thread without cropping?
2. The one at the top of this thread? (Crop 1)
3. The first one below? (Crop 2)
4. The second one below? (Crop 3)
Yeah. But then there's the national geographic interview I read in 78 or so, of 144 year old woman in the Himalayas who started smoking a pack and a half a day at 80 and who said she awoke every morning since 14, to a shot of vodka. Her son who was 120, verified the whole story and NG themselves could track records of her age to at least 120 years ago.
Did you know that, according to current scientific thinking, once you reach an age of around 95-100, your body actually stops aging? Evidently this is so.
You will still be frail and very prone to all sorts of illnesses & diseases, but the cells themselves no longer break down, including neurons.
You also have significantly less desire to upgrade to the newest cameras & lenses every two years.
Scientific fact!
Wow! That's awesome, good for her. Now, to add even more interest to this, (for me anyway) today, yes groundhog day, happens to be my Grandmother-in-laws 107 birthday as well and... like your mother-in-law, she is still quite the firecracker.
It's not that great an image I think. It shows off the lens and the duplicator some maybe - especially if you see the 100% version... pretty sweet! But I just thought: making it to a hundred and seven... Wow! 
I might post more as I do them I dunno. This is just the 1st one I did.
But maybe the kids will get some of it. Especially since both my grandparents made it past 100 and my father to 98. 
But yeah, I think she can still ride a bicycle too. I know for sure she cooks for herself most of the time. 
If they had a secret besides not being poisoned by the government, it was routine. Very steady people! Grandpa chewed fine-cut Copenhagen tobacco 6 or 8 times a day most of his life. 
