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| Maple leaf from 7th Avenue fall 2023 - Rosa 'Princess Alexandra of Kent' 8 December 2024 |
Today is 8 December 2024. It is impossible for me to not remember that tomorrow will be the 4th year anniversary of my Rosemary’s death.
The day is semi sunny and cold. The cats are inside. I knew that I had to write something in remembrance of tomorrow’s sad anniversary.
There are some positive and fond remembrances that are personal. Personal, in that I am the good photographer that I am today, because Rosemary said yes to all my expensive equipment requests. She taught me to be careful in how I photographed hands. My portraits are good because of her urging.
Best of all in 1975 she made the decision that we (including our two daughters) had to move from Mexico City to Canada. Vancouver has been kind to my profession not only as a photographer but as a writer, too.
As I looked at the fall colouring on this English Rose, Rosa ‘Princess Alexandra of Kent’, I know that I noticed because Rosemary taught me to notice details. She was a meticulous partner in my life for 52 years. The fall colouring on this rose, a favourite of hers, especially because we have a daughter called Alexandra, is lovely. People look at trees for fall colouring.
I did last year.I picked up a maple leaf on my street and put it by my record turntable. It has been there until now.
My photographic peers do not seem to understand or listen to me when I tell them of the wonders of the overlooked scanner particularly when it is a good one.The scan of the leaf is almost three dimensional. I am not sure that a macro photographic close-up would be as good.
I do know that my path to excellence has always been via Rosemary.
