A Bite Of The Madeleine

[poliphilo]

My parents and I started taking colour slides in the mid 1960s. Between us we accumulated thousands of images- which were viewed once or twice on the big screen, put away in boxes and then largely forgotten.

Now, thanks to Ailz, I have a scanner....

I fetched a load of boxes down from the attic this morning. Pictures from '64 and '65. A holiday in France, my grandmother with her dogs, my sister and I in the garden at Hadlow. Solemn little chap I was.

And here are the frozen tunny fish we saw lying about on the quay at Concarneau. It's something I've always remembered but I hadn't known that my father had a picture of them...

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

My Dad and I took photos on colour slides back in the 60s. During the cold dark winters, we would have regular slide shows of previous holidays. We'd put out the lights and revisit sunny beaches and beautiful landscapes.

For some reason, those oldest slides have survived better and scan better than those I took in the 1980s.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I stopped taking slides in the 70s- mainly, I think, because prints are so much easier to view.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

That reminds me - I know there were some family home movies on 8mm, once upon a time, but I've no idea where they've wound up. I should contact my brother - he might know, or even have them somewhere himself. I don't recall them being anything dramatic, but it'd be rather cool to see Dad again, especially back in his prime, when we ran a very successful pub/inn.

I rather wish I'd got into photography much earlier, but, the ease with which I can take perhaps 200-300 shots on a good rabbiteering evening reminds me things were different in the age of film, even aside from having to pay money to get the rolls developed, and wait days to see the results. (And the ease of being able to gently tweak photos in Aperture, versus adjusting such matters in a darkroom.. !)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We have quite a few rolls of 8mm film too. It would be nice to have them digitalized.

I couldn't go back to faffing around with film. I marvel now that we were happy to put up with the expense and inconvenience.