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Chris Jablonski's picture

Di's Elephant Ear - the last Christmas

More poignant for me than you might expect. I visited my mother-in-law Di for Christmas twice after my wife died. The first year, my attempt to photograph this beautiful large-leafed plant didn't work as well as I wanted (D700 lacked 100% viewfinder!). The next year, I could really see what I was photographing, and then the glancing light just made the shot.

That was the last year I had Christmas there, as Di developed cancer and was too ill the following Christmas to have guests, and gone by the next. I surprised Sarah, my wife's beloved sister by adoption, by giving her a framed A2 print of Di's elephant ear as a Christmas present. We both burst into tears.

Nikon D800E
105mm · f/11 · 1/200 s · ISO 200
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3 Comments

Art!

Thanks, Patrick. That was the idea! Sorry I missed your comment until now.

This is absolutely lovely, mate. I could see this hanging.