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.