ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
One: A photo of mine of a lovely couple, when I gave it to them they were thrilled.
Two: A baby was born nearby and I was awed to see her photos on a cellphone just an hour or two later.
Three: My mother sent me a photo of my grandfather who died two years ago. It's on my desk.
Do you ever have any photos like this?
Two: A baby was born nearby and I was awed to see her photos on a cellphone just an hour or two later.
Three: My mother sent me a photo of my grandfather who died two years ago. It's on my desk.
Do you ever have any photos like this?
charjohncarter
Veteran
Jon, sometimes these old photos or memorable photos are the best. My Father-in-Law took this Kodachrome of his Father, Father-in-Law, and his Wife in 1941. The two men were starting a Cribbage game.
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Jon: My current avatar is one that moves me. It is cropped a lot and there is lots more going on which is evocative. I'll see if I can find the original scan file and post it.
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
Ten days back I scanned the negatives of old photos of an aunt who had just died. Her kids -- all grown up, with their own kids in college -- had no other decent pictures of her. Then, only last evening, what should turn up but a 6 by 6 cm. contact print of a photo of me with my late father, taken around 1953.
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
Thank you all for your stories.
Yes, don't photos carry emotion and memories.
Yes, don't photos carry emotion and memories.
Johnmcd
Well-known
ClaremontPhoto said:
It's out of focus but I could stare at this photo for hours. My 15 year old son and myself a couple of weeks after he was born. It's like only yesterday...
Taken by my wife with my OM1 and 50 1.8 probably HP5
Cheers,
John
OurManInTangier
An Undesirable
charjohncarter said:
I'm always fascinated to see colour photographs, especially domestic ones, from this era. In the UK there were very few who could afford or had access to colour film and so to see such a scene is very rare. Despite photographing in my spare time almost exclusively in black and white I often find myself forgetting that my old and faded family snaps from that time are of real people doing real things in what was then a contemporary world.
I've seen a number of your photographs posted here that were taken down the years and you are very lucky to have such a collection, they must be very close to your heart.
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
Tomorrow Sara Isabel will arrive to her new home, two days old, and I hope to photograph the happy family later in the week. Very informal.
Yes, I grew up in Britain and remember that color film (in the 1960's) was something special and different. And not affordable.
Same for color television. Even in the 1970's I think I had a mono television.
Is color, and it's uses, somewhat similar to the impressionists and how they approached art? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
Yes, I grew up in Britain and remember that color film (in the 1960's) was something special and different. And not affordable.
Same for color television. Even in the 1970's I think I had a mono television.
Is color, and it's uses, somewhat similar to the impressionists and how they approached art? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
Johnmcd said:It's out of focus but I could stare at this photo for hours. My 15 year old son and myself a couple of weeks after he was born. It's like only yesterday...
Simply wonderful.
The photo isn't too bad either.
MickH
Well-known
ClaremontPhoto said:
Sadly we had a death in the family over Christmas and one wing of the family flew over from California for the funeral. Obviously much catching up has been done along with a trawl through the family albums. I am now busy scanning and compiling a CD of family snaps dating back to the 1960s.
Very moving indeed.
The guys over in the States will get electronic copies, but for what it's worth I believe there is no substitute for the original prints, dog-eared and torn as they may be. It all adds to the history.
photobizzz
Speak of the Devil
Since I am gone this year, my wife sent me a little scrapbook with a page for each year since we have been married (8 yrs) and on each page were photos of my two sons at christmas, I brought back alot of memories to see them over the past 7 & 4 years. Espically since one of my sons was born on Dec 10th so he was kind of a "Christmas Present" I tried to get my wife to hold him in for 5 more days so he would be born on my birthday but he was ready to escape.
MickH
Well-known
I had a shirt like that! Ben Sherman?
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
MickH said:
Which shirt do you mean?
The one with matching pants and hat?
Show us a photo of you in that!
MickH
Well-known
ClaremontPhoto said:
Swine!
I don't want to drag this thread into a Digi vs Fillum fight but ...do you folks agree that (at least) for family snapshots analogue is more betterer than digital? If only for the fact that they are tactile pieces of history that have passed through the hands of long gone and in many cases forgotten family members.
Even re-prints of those old photographs don't hold the same magic.
There is alot of sentiment attached to family photography that just isn't there in the other forms, at least for people of a certain generation
.Cheers.
Johnmcd
Well-known
ClaremontPhoto said:
Thanks Jon,
This is another photo taken around the same time, once again by my wife with the OM1. I've had to pull it in all directions to make it look decent but I love the way in which he is looking up at me. I melt every time.
It also amazing how it effects the other senses, I can even smell his breath when I look at it.
And yes, he was born with all that hair
Johnmcd
Well-known
I can see why you have it on your desk. It's beautiful. Thanks for sharing.Pitxu said:I havn't seen my 30 year old son for quite awhile, we had a big argument many months ago and don't see each other anymore. I keep this picture of us on my desk, taken by his mom in '77.
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Don't laugh at the hair, it was the seventies, I was only 21..
Hope you can renew the relationship...
Cheers,
John
MickH
Well-known
Johnmcd said:Thanks Jon,
This is another photo taken around the same time, once again by my wife with the OM1. I've had to pull it in all directions to make it look decent but I love the way in which he is looking up at me. I melt every time.
It also amazing how it effects the other senses, I can even smell his breath when I look at it.
And yes, he was born with all that hair
John, that's a chuffin' wonderful photo. I can understand the effect it has on you.
shiro_kuro
Charles Bowen
Some photos of my Grandfather I never met along with my mom when she was very young ........ taken on Martha's Vineyard along time ago .
I tried my hand at restoring a bunch of old photos for my mom ..... Spending the time going over all these photos gave me chance to see my family in a way I never felt possible .... Got to know my Grandfather a bit .
Photo albums a great ...... glad my mom managed to hang to them for all these years.... strange I have no photo albums just a an external Hard drive to pass along to my kids .
Any idea what type of camera might of been used ?
I tried my hand at restoring a bunch of old photos for my mom ..... Spending the time going over all these photos gave me chance to see my family in a way I never felt possible .... Got to know my Grandfather a bit .
Photo albums a great ...... glad my mom managed to hang to them for all these years.... strange I have no photo albums just a an external Hard drive to pass along to my kids .
Any idea what type of camera might of been used ?
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OurManInTangier
An Undesirable
MickH said:Swine!
I don't want to drag this thread into a Digi vs Fillum fight but ...do you folks agree that (at least) for family snapshots analogue is more betterer than digital? If only for the fact that they are tactile pieces of history that have passed through the hands of long gone and in many cases forgotten family members.
Even re-prints of those old photographs don't hold the same magic.
There is alot of sentiment attached to family photography that just isn't there in the other forms, at least for people of a certain generation
Cheers.
My mother died 18 months ago which led to that process that it seems many of us, especially as photographers, go through whereby we collect, scan and print ( or put on disc ) all the old family photographs. For me it started with photographs of my mother so I could give them to my grandparents, but soon escalated to almost every family picture that I could find in all branches of our immediate(?!) family.
Not only did I learn alot about myself and our family but I realised that, as Mick said, I was pleased that I'd managed to give everyone copies but thats exactly what they were. None of them had the pencilled scrawl on the back stating "Sue's first holiday, Northumberland 1951" or "Len, just outside Cairo 1942." Even those old professional photographs in their huge cardboard covers with the price and address stamped on the back, thats simply something that's lost with a digital.
It doesn't really matter, the memories themselves are the important thing of course - but of the two, I'll take the old originals please and that faint thread that keeps them a little closer to the past than the shiny new copies.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Every chance I got, I take pictures of my parents and my wife's parents with my daughter. I may look like the weirdo dad who always carrying old cameras with film now, but they'll cry when they see the pictures years from now
Thanks for sharing those wonderful pictures guys. I'm touched.
Thanks for sharing those wonderful pictures guys. I'm touched.