Re: nne

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Exactly... stop and smell the roses.

Lifes too short to sweat the small stuff. Now with the beauty of fall

leaves here in Michigan, I am going to take more time out for ME and

looking at things around me.... of course, with camera in hand

char

> I'm probably not like anyone else in your group, but I would

really

> like to be here. Let me explain.

>

> I am a photgrapher, and I'm working on a project - I'm building a

> calendar (hopefully for 2008) for Breast Cancer Awareness. Since

it's

> a calendar, I obviously need 12 images for it. That's not

important.

> What is important is that I want to show a different perspective.

I

> look anywhere for facts and figures, or medical information, or

any

> kind of specifics like that. That is not my focus.

>

> I want to learn about the emotions of people dealing with Breast

> Cancer. What do they think, how do they feel, what goes through

their

> minds from the first moment of " I may have a problem " to " seeing

the

> doctor " , being told " You have a spot " . I think you get the idea. I

> am only guessing here, but I think I could capture the range of

> emotions in 12 stages.

>

> I have not had to deal with this disease personally, so I have

> absolutely no first hand knowledge of what you experience. I hope

> that I can learn enough from you folks to get a tiny little clue

of

> what you feel and translate that into photos. I wish to honor

those

> that have suffered through this - both the ones that have

survived and

> the ones that haven't.

>

> I am like an empty sponge, please, fill me up with your feelings

and

> experience. Thank you for your help.

>

>

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