That was a happy picture Walt; I enjoyed seeing that. One of the
great things about photography, the still sort, is that it is easy to
use a photo or photos to rebuild a situation, setting or feeling from
a while back.
And, sorry as I am that your mother has died, it was great that she
had those memories to look back on.
However, I did some sums and if you were 18 when your father was 42
and he was nearly 60 in 1998, you are a younger chap than I have
hitherto supposed. I was 26 in 1980 when you were, allegedly, 18
years old ... ;-)
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 15 Oct 2005, at 17:59, Walt Wayman wrote:
> In spite of the fact some of you disregarded my instructions,
> thanks anyway for the condolences. The burial was accomplished
> Thursday, and a good time was had by all. More about that another
> time.
>
> I believe I have previously mentioned that almost all of my
> photographs taken prior to 1968 were lost in a house fire. While
> my son and I were looking last week for necessary documents in an
> old roll top desk, which originally belonged to my grandfather and
> was one of the few things to make it out of the house from the
> fire, we discovered a half dozen six-frame strips of Panatomic-X
> negatives in glassine sleeves that had somehow fallen behind one of
> the drawers. (I'm still pissed at Kodak for discontinuing this
> film, which was one of my favorites.)
>
> A half dozen or so of the shots were taken on my father's 42nd
> birthday. (He died in 1998, just over a month short of his and
> mother's 60th anniversary.) I was 18 at the time, and just
> starting to get serious about photography, so this is one of my
> earliest efforts, a grab shot taken with an Asahi Pentax K and
> 55/1.8 Takumar (which, by the way, gear hoarder that I am, I still
> have). I'm guessing I was using a Honeywell strobe, too. I no
> longer have it, or if I do, I haven't seen it in quite a while.
>
> This photograph is an excellent representation of our family. We
> laughed a lot, more than some folks thought was dignified and
> proper, and those of us left still do -- including my mother's only
> sister, who'll be 97 this Halloween. (Folks born on Halloween have
> to have a sense of humor.) Hell, we laughed at mother's funeral.
> She would've joined in, except she, of course, was three days dead
> by then.
>
> Anyhow, here's the picture:
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/media/192375/site1065.jpg
>
>
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