Portraits Of The Elderly

Beautiful Robert. Very strong.
Here's one of mine:

---Mike Savad

I'm not one for taking portraits. But here is a lovely capture of an old couple doing what old couples do best...Ignoring each other while staring into space!

Strength and character. I love it when you capture an honest smile. It tells me growing old is not so bad. I love the other shots as well. Great work !

SO relieved to see ones still alive these days...beautiful!

Hiya Robert,

This good looking couple was my grandparents.

But I guess I should have posted a picture of myself as an example of an old person.

OK, here's me/mine, but..........I do not admit to being 'elderly'...!!!!!!!..........feeble,slow of gait,white lined hair,growing,um,smaller.,failing vision........etc...unmentionable stuff..
.....but the cliche holds true...............the spirit IS willing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... count on it !!.........so, c'mon........talk to me,Robert, be amazed ! I even had the widsom to stop smoking! Am only slightly older than you, at 77 in Nov.

Give this senior lady credit for still trying. If I were not married, I would have chatted her up and asked her for her phone number. (I am 72)

One of my favs, this lady was nearing 90 when I captured her. Sadly she has passed as all of us will.

Kevin,
Some years ago, I worked with a lady who retired at age 100...At her retirement she said, "it's so nice to have an older sister." OMG, her older sister was 103!!!

The lines in this man's face carry the story of his life. It is a glimpse into the soul of a survivor - a man weathered by life and the elements.
It is a portrait without pride, but equally without surrender.

I find much beauty in aging! I love the character that wrinkles and creases bring to the human face. Here is a picture of my 94 year old mother-in-law. She is a Holocaust survivor and I took this picture of her with our cat, Lola, who we rescued from an animal shelter.

What a great name Gotlieb is...!

Viv..I recently got stuck in the bath too..and I'm just a pup by these standards..so...no shame :-)

My mother Marti

Great conversationist!!

So what determines when is one is considered elderly... chronologically, psychologically or how many wrinkles one has... lol

I don't know who she is or what her story is but she sure in photogenic. This is a "drive by shooting" which means I pulled my car over to the curb and used a telephoto lens 55-250 to capture her image. She did not know I was taking her pictures. I almost never chat up my "candid" street images. Life is hard enough without having a stranger babbling about how he wants to take your photograph because.......yada yada yada....

Robert: Thank you for this thread. As a portrait photographer, most of my sessions consist of newborns, children, HS seniors and engagements. Both children and the elderly are one in the same most of the time.

Parker: Your "Abuelita" shot is wonderful! I first saw it in a contest you entered.

Diana,
And thank U for your contribution...thanks to all of you by the way.
The elderly have paid their dues one way or the other, and none of us will get out alive. Now that I am 72 (an old 72) I see the handwriting on the wall.

I recall a snippet from a Dylan Thomas poem dedicated to his dying dad.

"Rage, Rage against the dying of the light...
Do not go gentle into that good night.."

Natalie,
Love your work especially so because of your neo expressionist/fauvist style....Whenever I tire of straight street images, I recreate my images into the fauvist style/wild beasts of color.

You are more than welcome Robert!

Just helped my parents pack up their home in CT to move south. Due to health reasons they will probably never be back to the area they grew up in.

Time Marches On...I wish them well in their new home.

My bro and sis both died about a year ago, they are missed.