Me at 13 in 1970 & One of my photographs...

[NY_Dan]

I'm in the middle of a trip down memory lane, trying to reconnect with my photography roots.

Here's a photo of me in 1970 on the top of the Empire State Building:

I set it up, adjusted the settings, and had my father snap the photo.

Below is a shot I took the same month, and developed, of two men on Kings Highway in Brooklyn New York.

What I've learned from this is that my improvement since 1970 has been minimal 🙂
That and the price of a pea coat has quadrupled.

 

[hepcat]

The cost of my peacoat was five years in the Navy... 😉

 

[froyd]

very nice. While I feel like I picked up a few things along the way, I feel much the same as you did when looking at some of my earlier images.

Against all that's held sacred by many on RFF, the biggest changes in the type of images I produce have been driven by equipment changes. Superwides taught me to get close, RFs taught me to be more spontaneous, meterless bodies helped me capture more fleeting scenes, TLRs gave me a new perspective on the world, etc...

 

[colyn]

The cost of my peacoat was five years in the Navy... 😉

I did 10 years to get mine....

 

[NY_Dan]

The cost of my peacoat was five years in the Navy... 😉

You overpaid!

Here's a shot from this Saturday 3/15/2014 in Queens NY -- Yeti sighting!

I feel lucky to still get the same thrill from photography. And as for the equipment -- the one benefit (could there be more?) of getting older is the where with all to satisfy the equipment lusts of youth. I remember once dreaming that I somehow won a free shopping spree in Olden Photo -- that was a good dream.

 

[Vics]

I have come into all of my youth's dream cameras in my old age, and mostly for free! Good pics, by the way, old and new.

 

[back alley]

I'm in the middle of a trip down memory lane, trying to reconnect with my photography roots.

Here's a photo of me in 1970 on the top of the Empire State Building:

I set it up, adjusted the settings, and had my father snap the photo.

Below is a shot I took the same month, and developed, of two men on Kings Highway in Brooklyn New York.

What I've learned from this is that my improvement since 1970 has been minimal 🙂
That and the price of a pea coat has quadrupled.

i was hoping to see you in a mustache...

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Yeah, my peacoat cost me 8 years.

Phil Forrest

 

[rhl-oregon]

Very cool share, Dan. Setting it up for dad to trip the shutter! Don't feck it up, Dad!

The image of the two men is the work of an old soul. The child is father to the man, as Willy Wordsworth wrote, and your evidence and conclusions about it seems to bear that out. What were you shooting at that age?

Worth starting a thread on if only to see what other rff people could pull out of their earliest scrapbooks/negative holders. Your Earliest Work (and what does it tell about your current work?)

 

[easyrider]

I have one too

I have one too

I have a shot exactly like that taken on a high school trip to New York circa 1953! No, I am not posting it. Just wanted to say that I love your shot. 🙂

 

[hepcat]

Very cool share, Dan. Setting it up for dad to trip the shutter! Don't feck it up, Dad!

The image of the two men is the work of an old soul. The child is father to the man, as Willy Wordsworth wrote, and your evidence and conclusions about it seems to bear that out. What were you shooting at that age?

Worth starting a thread on if only to see what other rff people could pull out of their earliest scrapbooks/negative holders. Your Earliest Work (and what does it tell about your current work?)

I agree completely, Dan, that this is the work of an "old soul." Timing is everything, and you apparently were either born with it, or developed it at an early age.

I'm digitizing some of my old negatives and while I was rummaging around, I found some transparencies the other day that I shot in 1972 for a project I did in high school... it is fun to look back at where we've been.

 

[jsrockit]

Great insight Dan.

 

[dasuess]

The cost of my peacoat was five years in the Navy... 😉

Five years here too... and I still have mine after stealing it back from my daughter a few years ago.