Thursday, February 13, 2003
As you may know, I'm rather into a spot of photography every now and then. Nothing fancy as such, but put a camera in my hand and I'll take snaps till the cows come home.Well, this rather runs in the family, as not only has my dad always been a keen photographer, but so was my grandad, who developed his own photos in the shed at the bottom of the garden.
So anyway, while visiting my mum yesterday afternoon, I asked if I she still had my grandad's collection of photos (taken in the 40s and 50s) stashed away, as I knew some of those pics would have been shared out among other family members when my gran died. Some of the ones I remember have gone elsewhere, but she still has a large collection of small test prints, probably shots that were never developed full size. She's let me borrow the collection, many of which are so utterly charming, I simply had to scan them, though this did admittedly prove difficult because of their size, being too small to feed into my (non-flatbed) scanner. A little ingenuity did the trick though.
I'm going to put all the pics I've scanned into my online photo album, linked over there on the left, but till then, here's a couple of examples.
This is the street where my granparents lived, and my mum and aunt grew up. I have very vague memories of the place, most of it having been knocked down in the 70s and replaced with some godawful monstrocity of a housing complex.
This is the river at the back of New Bradwell, which still looks much the same today. I love this pic, partly because it's exactly the same kind of photo I like to take myself.
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Steve 5:07 AM [+]
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