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my father's final photo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2024.03.16

My father was a regular photographer throughout his adult life. By some coincidence, he shot the same Olympus gear that I do. Anyway, I believe the above pic of a sailboat in a harbor in Canada's British Columbia is the final photo he ever took. I'm afraid the rest of his work is lost as he dispensed with his possessions in the years before his death -- quite unlike how it's done in my mother's side of the family! 8^)

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl