So very sorry to hear about David. All of us are thinking of you and are here for you. Please don't hesitate to lean on that support and that of your other dear friends and family.
And I just got off the phone with my step mom. My dad passed away last night, she said it was peacefully. He would not wanted to have lived like he was getting by these last days. Hospice was supposed to come pick him up, but an hour before they arrived, he passed. His wishes were no funeral, no obituary, no services. I'm going to miss all those jokes in my email (good and bad)
NightOwl Cat wrote:
And I just got off the phone with my step mom. My dad passed away last night, she said it was peacefully. He would not wanted to have lived like he was getting by these last days. Hospice was supposed to come pick him up, but an hour before they arrived, he passed. His wishes were no funeral, no obituary, no services. I'm going to miss all those jokes in my email (good and bad)
So sorry to hear this, Laura. Please, receive my sincere condolences!
Take a look at the Platypod. It fits in your camera bag, but offers many of the advantages of a tripod. It's stable and the head gives you the ability to make adjustments much more easily than trying to balance the camera on a big rock. With a strap or belt, you can even use a fence post, tree, etc. to get the camera at whatever height you like, within reason.
The only time a carry a tripod anymore is whenever I can drive fairly close to my photo spot. I don't mind carrying the tripod a mile or so, but that's about my limit. That may change if I ever loosen the purse strings and get a carbon fiber tripod.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
And I just got off the phone with my step mom. My dad passed away last night, she said it was peacefully. He would not wanted to have lived like he was getting by these last days. Hospice was supposed to come pick him up, but an hour before they arrived, he passed. His wishes were no funeral, no obituary, no services. I'm going to miss all those jokes in my email (good and bad)
When I did a clinical internship at a non-profit in Marin my first assignment was to send letters to those who'd recently experienced the death of a loved one to tell them about the free grief counseling services offered. Each week the coroner's office would deliver a stack of death certificates from which I'd learn who that might be. Although I'd experienced death in my life, it wasn't until I began reading a stack of death certificates that the reality hit me. I had to make a quick calculation to satisfy myself... 6 billion people on the planet, 60 years average at death translates into 100,000,000 people die each year. Imagine that... pretty breathtaking.
Laura, I'm sorry for your loss. I certainly appreciate that your father wouldn't want to live in a compromised state much as Ken's partner David was exhausted by his daunting health journey. Sometimes it is simply easier to allow life to have its way... since life will have its way regardless of our feelings. Take good care of yourself.
It seems that quite a few are going through the mill just recently.
I can sympathise with these ones and even empathise to a degree, but everyone has an individual experience, so I cannot understand every situation.
My own position is being perhaps a little upset that I didn't get a nice set of white wings and a big harp to play, or even get shown a big fluffy cloud I could ride on ......
Oh well .... maybe next time.
A friend said to me, when you put the words heart and surgeon in the same sentence, then understand, invasive or not, that is serious ....
What can I say ?? I'm here to tell the tale, and still able to pick up the camera, when the mood takes me.
My perfumed commander (she who must be obeyed) got some grasses from a friend, but couldn't identify them, so asked me !! I just looked blank and said why would you think I know ?? (not helpful)
So I decided to just join in the blabbermouth banter again and dump a couple of pix of the grasses on here for the hell of it.
If there is any -oligist here who knows maybe you could let me know .... that gets a monkey off my back
So taken on D500 with 105mm f2.8 micro hand-held and rocking it ....
Steve
Nikon on Nikon of course
Stokesey 2018
Grass seed heads
Stokesey 2018
More seeds .... maybe I should spill them in the ground for next year
I'm so sorry to hear this, Laura. Hoping for days of peace for you, and that you heal from all your recent losses.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
And I just got off the phone with my step mom. My dad passed away last night, she said it was peacefully. He would not wanted to have lived like he was getting by these last days. Hospice was supposed to come pick him up, but an hour before they arrived, he passed. His wishes were no funeral, no obituary, no services. I'm going to miss all those jokes in my email (good and bad)
Take a look at the Platypod. It fits in your camera bag, but offers many of the advantages of a tripod. It's stable and the head gives you the ability to make adjustments much more easily than trying to balance the camera on a big rock. With a strap or belt, you can even use a fence post, tree, etc. to get the camera at whatever height you like, within reason.
The only time a carry a tripod anymore is whenever I can drive fairly close to my photo spot. I don't mind carrying the tripod a mile or so, but that's about my limit. That may change if I ever loosen the purse strings and get a carbon fiber tripod....Show more →
actually, I had a lightweight tripod solution with me for the first half of the hike. Didn't use it enough so I ditched it at a resupply where I had to load up 9 days of food.
When the pack goes over 45 pounds, even I start wondering about the weight of photo gear. In fact, strange thoughts like bringing just a cell phone for photos next time around will go through you head - until you take shots like the above
It was a little more than a pound I saved including that third hiking pole it required to have three legs, and I took a significant number of night shots.
Also, no fence posts, trees, or anything you can attach something to up on Mt. Whitney, but a lot of funky boulders with eroded holes in it to grab a camera quite well. The rest is just a matter of leveling it in camera raw.
I am so very sorry to here the bad news. We are all here for you and Ken, I hope you both know that. Words just don't seem to be adequate to tell dear friends how much you wish you could spare them their pain/loss.
Ballard wrote:
One week ago today David, my partner of 23 years, died at home in my arms. This was the end of a 13 year struggle with multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer. He had been on home hospice the last 2 weeks after several hospitalizations starting late July.
I’m exhausted—both emotionally and physically. Eventually I’ll return to photography and other interests, but for now I have no energy or enthusiasm.
Oh Ken, how very sad for you. My deepest sympathy on your loss. Be strong and remember the good times.
Laura, it is always sad to lose a parent and I feel for you. You mentioned your Dad's jokes .. as time passes your memory will reinforce the good times. You are strong and know that all of us here are with you at this time.
