happy mothers day 2006
this is my mum...aka 'mum-mum' (to maximum).
this is the woman that i love like no other.
the woman that all other women are judged against and compared to.
the matriarch of our family.
i love my mum more than she knows and more than i am able to tell/show her.
i didn't show her these photos as i was taking them because i knew she would hate them and she knew she would hate them too.
it's really weird for me to photograph the people i love because it's such a different thing to photographing people i don't know or don't care about as much.
when i was tweaking this picture on my computer, i couldn't stop zooming in so my mum was in extreme close up, so much larger than life: seeing her in so much more detail than i could ever see her if i was just looking at her while she's in front of me.
she didn't want me to photograph her 'warts and all' in the hard, unforgiving flash i used, but these pictures are for me: my mum in close up reality: every bit of her face now, at 68... a little bit of her character recorded in a photo.
i can't get enough of photographing the people i love...i'm going to do it a lot more.
it's something else.
it something special...for me...it might not translate well to those of you who don't love her like i do.
hope you've all had a good mother's day anyway.
spent mine with my sons at my brother's house (with two thirds of their grandparents and not their mother: mrs.p went to the V&A with her mum after i cooked her breakfast first).
z is ill and has slept most of the day with a temperature.
sickness pingpong: if it's not z, it's maximum or me...
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