My Slides from the 90's

Greetings again from an occasional visitor to this great thread.

You have a classic eye for good minimalistic photography. And an ability to capture the simplicity of the scenes you recorded on film.

Keep it up, please. Be assured that the pleasure your images bring us are well worth the time and effort you are putting into scanning them all.

And please keep them coming. With AI creeping up on us with all its artificial complexities, more than ever now we need the emotional mental input of seeing good film images from the past.
 
Oop... meant to add in #71, but somehow didn't. In an earlier post you mentioned merging all the old slide threads into one.

Not a good thing, I reckon. Best to separate them and keep them apart. To be enjoyed individually, as I have so much with yours (and also Lynnb's, in his equally marvelous 1979 US journey thread).

Otherwise we will end up with gazillions of images in one thread. Too much for my old tired weary brain. Also not a nice thing to have to wade thru all those visuals, as good as they may be. One by one is best.

My thoughts.
 
DownUnder said:
Greetings again from an occasional visitor to this great thread.

You have a classic eye for good minimalistic photography. And an ability to capture the simplicity of the scenes you recorded on film.

Keep it up, please. Be assured that the pleasure your images bring us are well worth the time and effort you are putting into scanning them all.

And please keep them coming. With AI creeping up on us with all its artificial complexities, more than ever now we need the emotional mental input of seeing good film images from the past.
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Thank you very much for your comment, it is much appreciated. I enjoy thinking that others like them as much as I do. For a long time I did not regard them as worth showing that's why I never brought them all when I moved abroad. Now it us good fun for me going through them and rediscovering them.

DownUnder said:
In an earlier post you mentioned merging all the old slide threads into one.

Not a good thing, I reckon. Best to separate them and keep them apart. To be enjoyed individually, as I have so much with yours (and also Lynnb's, in his equally marvelous 1979 US journey thread).
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That's fine with me. However people prefer it (y)
 
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All the OP's images are good, but I especially like this one. The haphazard 'business' has a certain 'look' of HCB''s early work about it...

Scenes like this are rarely found in life. I have maybe twenty of these in my archives, and I'm way older than you. So yes, you were indeed most fortunate to have come across it.

All your images bring back happy memories of my younger years in eastern Canada and then New Mexico. When I would go wandering with one camera and usually only one lens, and photograph whatever I came across.

As time passed I seem to have lost this 'eye. I've been back to both places a few times, but I no longer see things in the same way. Maybe because they have changed, or I have changed, or both.

Only my random thoughts. Christmas is three days away, so it's that 'random thought' time of year...
 
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DownUnder said:
All the OP's images are good, but I especially like this one. The haphazard 'business' has a certain 'look' of HCB''s early work about it...

Scenes like this are rarely found in life. I have maybe twenty of these in my archives, and I'm way older than you. So yes, you were indeed most fortunate to have come across it.

All your images bring back happy memories of my younger years in eastern Canada and then New Mexico. When I would go wandering with one camera and usually only one lens, and photograph whatever I came across.

As time passed I seem to have lost this 'eye. I've been back to both places a few times, but I no longer see things in the same way. Maybe because they have changed, or I have changed, or both.

Only my random thoughts. Christmas is three days away, so it's that 'random thought' time of year...
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Thank you very much for your thoughts, I am glad to hear that others find these pictures of some value - they remained locked away for a long time thinking there was nothing interesting in them.

I don't have this eye for urban composition any more - certainly not for landscape work. Back then my camera and a Walkman with a 90min Denon cassette was my TV and internet on holidays. Walking around and taking pictures was the only way of passing time.
 
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