Wednesday, November 28, 2012

That Boy O' Mine

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Andy In The Reeds

I need to shoot some new local material but this picture of my son, Andy, taken last weekend in Kansas, is worth an upload. He's 32, as tall as I am (which is tall); significantly, um, narrower; snowboards and runs marathons (I'm not sure I could run out of a burning building); and has a voice nearly an octave lower than my baritone. He gave up a career as a software engineer and, starting this semester, is teaching math in the Chicago public schools. He loves it.

He's a good one. Sorry, girls, he's taken. We have some common interests - that's his Canon cradled in his hands.



9 comments:

  1. Another kind of shooting :-)Super portrait from a distance.

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  2. Very much a case of 'like father like son' hey Bob..in all the important things anyway!!

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  3. Fantastic portrait! Great colours too.

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  4. Camera ready? Like dear ol' dad!

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  5. I can hear a voiceover narrator speaking, "Here we find the classic homo sapiens photographantus in his natural environment, hidden in tall grass, waiting to capture the perfect picture..."

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  6. This apple sure didn't fall very far from the tree!

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  7. What an inspiring portrait : Your son caught in the tall grass like a deer at dawn, eyes and ears geared to the world around him as if this tense awareness were a fundamental survival skill. Your portrait in words is just as wonderful. I love your father-son relationship.

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  8. Nice to see another family portrait. And it is a good one.

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