A freshly minted Marine for your observation..... part of my free Military Portrait program so that services members always have the chance to document their career with nice photo's when they are home on leave.....
Your service is so awesome! What a calling. I like #4 best.
When I was in Iraq with the Marines, we suffered some casualties and had no photos except the 'boot camp' photo. I carried a canon elf everywhere and used it to take pics of everyone on our FOB at work and in clandestine poses so we would never have to use a boot camp pic again. I also used that camera for the moments when we were being mortared, and during the first memorial services performed on the FOB for those being transferred in caskets back home.
My eyes still tear writing about it, and quite frankly I haven't looked at the photos in ten years.
Your photos are great for building fond memories with the servicemen's family after separation or retirement and for memorial services should they fall.
Those look great to me. I think the Marine and his family will really like and cherish those. I appreciate, and thank you, for doing this. Beautiful work!
This is truly great Lee! The images of our veterans are rare. I do much voluntary work for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund-Wall of Faces, Arlington Natl Cemetery, National Archives Records Admin. and Dept of Defense for those KIA/MIA in Vietnam. The photos of the fallen are few and far between. All the photos taken while vets served during this time have been destroyed by the DoD.
I am not talking about private photos, yearbooks whatever. I am talking about military ID photos, BCT unit photos, speciality MOS photos whatever.
And if, God forbid, one has or family has a photo of that vet KIA/MIA..his name will always have a face.
