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Erik, I agree about Larry’s image—which has managed to embody a memory of myself at that age, sleeping on a similar bed in my grandparents’ house (just a few miles from my own home, now, since I have moved from the west coast back to the region that my mother’s people settled, and where many of them are buried...).

In certain dreams and daydreams, we hover over our sleeping bodies—and get used, no doubt, to the idea of leaving them. This is what Larry’s exquisite and tender image does for me.
 
p.giannakis said:
He will really appreciate this picture when he grows older.
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Many thanks, Pan, Erik, and Robert. That's actually me 65 years ago, and I do appreciate the image now that I am older. (It's the "older" part that now seems somewhat unbelievable, as I can still remember that bed and that room.)

As a personal keepsake, I really love the image, but praise would go to my dad, were he still here.
 
And, oddly enough, I never remember seeing it in anything my dad printed out. I just came across the negative in a box a year ago, and just got around to scanning it last week.

Had it been a digital file, odds are I'd never have seen it.

Thanks, again.
 
So I *was* in the right curved-time-zone. I suppose the Ektapress should have clued me, but the bedcover and soft mattress and your clothes sent me there. The memory is nearly 60 years old in my case. I would have looked much the same.
 
Erik van Straten said:
Larry, do you know how your father made this shot?


Erik.
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Erik,

All I know is that it would have been window light from a window located in the upper right corner of the shot. It was 1954, so I am not sure of the camera. Was a 6x9 negative, and I don’t remember a working 6x9 camera, though I guess it could possibly have been done with his Speed Graphic and a reducing back. There was a 6x9 Kodak folder, but it was non-functional by the time I started poking around with his cameras 4 years later, when I was 8. So, could have been that. I wasn’t paying very close attention at the time. He started taking photos in the late 20’s, early 30’s, but didn’t process them himself.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. Like a lot of us, toward the end of his life he began trying to catalog and organize things, but he never finished.

Larry
 
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so many very good photos, difficult to pick out one or the other.
Happy to be here and hope that my rather documentary photos don't fall out of line too much of the real good photography seen here!


friends by andreas, on Flickr, S-M-C Takumar f1.4/50mm, Pentax *istDs, Nepal 2009
 
What we really need is another thread, a table-turner, where these children photograph us—parental units, grandparentals, aging with or without adult children, childless but full of empathy for the worlds of childhood—with or without our cameras in hand!

And now back to the regularly scheduled program. (Wonderful moment, Peter.)
 
Adorable posture, Taffy.

New lens yesterday—50/1.1 Nokton. Made some new friends in the Boys and Girls Club at the park downtown. A7II Kolari, wide open on little mister 23.

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Here they are in equal focus around f2. The older brother seems an unhappy child, the sister holds them confidently together, 23 the youngest is a ray of light.

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