I am going to attempt to take 50 mono portraits with my 50mm lens. 50 at 50mm
This is image No. 4 : Irene
Irene has an interesting story. She was born in Uganda. Her parents were Polish refugees in Uganda when Russia invaded Poland during World War II.
They eventually settled in Kenya, where Irene worked when she was a young lady.
While in Kenya, Irene met an Polish member of the Royal Air Force. He was based in East Leake, in Nottinghamshire and Irene eventually settled in Nottingham.
She first became interested in photography when she came 4 th in a photography competitoin ran by the Nottingham Evening Post. The winner of the competition was a member of Rushcliffe Photographic Society and Irene joined the society to learn more about the art.
She is now a member of Arnold and District Camera Club because it is her nearest club....oh and because we are a friendly and relaxed club.
Irene is a popular member of the club and usually sits on the back row with Rex, Margaret and Marion ! Yes people sit in the same seats at Camera Club, we are all creatures of habit !
This portrait is so full of life and love. You have a real gift for capturing the soul of your subjects.
Interesting note, Phil. My best friend growing up was born in Blackpool England. Her mother was English and her father wast a member of the Polish air force. He was killed in the war and her mother eventaully met an American who married her and brought her and her 2 children to the US. He adopted my friend and her brother. When she was a young woman, she managed to get to Poland and meet some of her father's family.
Love this one Phil! Such a natural smile. My old research supervisor was son of Polish refugees. His mother was woken one night by her older sister (they were 17 & 16 I think) and told she had to pack her things and leave. She spent the war in a work camp in Siberia but her parents (who had refused to leave despite the oldest child's pleading) and all the younger siblings ended up in concentration camps and the sisters never managed to trace exactly where they died. She somehow ended up in Beirut where she met his father who was also Polish and was in the Medical corp for the British army so they were entitled to move to England. They lived for a while in a camp in Kent along with another boy who eventually became very successful biochemical researcher as well. I often wonder how much further science would have progressed if the Holocaust hadn't happened.
@busylady yes a nice smile judith
@happypat thanks Pat, Irene is indeed a happy person
Interesting note, Phil. My best friend growing up was born in Blackpool England. Her mother was English and her father wast a member of the Polish air force. He was killed in the war and her mother eventaully met an American who married her and brought her and her 2 children to the US. He adopted my friend and her brother. When she was a young woman, she managed to get to Poland and meet some of her father's family.
I know Blackpool well, because my Grandparents retired there :).
@swilde thanks sue :)
@eyesmile many thanks for your comment and fave geena :)
My Grandmother married a polish man and they both moved to Blackpool to set up a boarding house! :)