Godfrey
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Not entirely, but I took the weekend to make a short trip to Albuquerque, NM, and visit my uncle. Had a great time.
He's an old camera buff but he's gotten rid of most of his older camera gear. He gave me a few bags full miscellaneous bits that he no longer wants to hold onto ... a couple of Nikon SLRs and zooms, a really pretty Polaroid SX-70... but the prize of the gift was the leather camera box that my father's M3 used to be stored in. The M3 is long gone, the box is mostly full of junk, but at the bottom of the box was a scrap of paper, a few notes written by my father in the 1950s about settings for doing portraits ...
That's a priceless thing. My father passed away on New Year's Day 1971.
I made a couple of photos of my uncle with the GXR and Skopar 28. Nothing special, but as the last surviving relative of the larger family from my father's side that I have any contact with, they're important to me.
Uncle Matt and the Old Chemist
My uncle was a pharmacist, this photo is special to him.
The two of us together.
He's gotten smaller in his old age, but I have been taller than him since
I was eleven years old.
Time and memories, a perfect fit for photographers. I did make a few more photos at the airports along the way. I'll post anything I find that looks interesting. There was one shot out the window at Stapleton that I have hopes for.
I found I have two packs of film for the SX-70 still kicking around ...
He's an old camera buff but he's gotten rid of most of his older camera gear. He gave me a few bags full miscellaneous bits that he no longer wants to hold onto ... a couple of Nikon SLRs and zooms, a really pretty Polaroid SX-70... but the prize of the gift was the leather camera box that my father's M3 used to be stored in. The M3 is long gone, the box is mostly full of junk, but at the bottom of the box was a scrap of paper, a few notes written by my father in the 1950s about settings for doing portraits ...
That's a priceless thing. My father passed away on New Year's Day 1971.
I made a couple of photos of my uncle with the GXR and Skopar 28. Nothing special, but as the last surviving relative of the larger family from my father's side that I have any contact with, they're important to me.
Uncle Matt and the Old Chemist
My uncle was a pharmacist, this photo is special to him.
The two of us together.
He's gotten smaller in his old age, but I have been taller than him since
I was eleven years old.
Time and memories, a perfect fit for photographers. I did make a few more photos at the airports along the way. I'll post anything I find that looks interesting. There was one shot out the window at Stapleton that I have hopes for.
I found I have two packs of film for the SX-70 still kicking around ...