Sometime, all you need is a shape. Detail is superfluous when outlines tell a story. This is my mother, Gladys, fifty-five years ago. I probably mis-judged the back-lighting, but I like to think that I was concerned only with capturing a shape.
Category: Family Photographs
Unknown And Superb
This is one of a batch of old photographs which was sent to me through the post. There was no indication as to who sent them, but the envelope also contained the funeral programme of one of my wife's cousins. I can only assume that the two children featured in this particular photograph are members … Continue reading Unknown And Superb
AB With FT
AB WITH FT Before digital time stamps were invented, you had to rely on more indirect means to date photographs. Thanks to a newspaper headline about the launch of the Serious Fraud Office, I can confidently say that this photograph of me was taken in April 1988. I seem rather relaxed, sat in one of … Continue reading AB With FT
Basin Street Blues
A determination to catch the last of the late summer sun took me to Brighouse Canal Basin yesterday, and a determination to scan my way through all my old photographs also took me to the same place - albeit fifty-three years earlier. The canal basin was looking glorious in the sunshine. A few late flowers … Continue reading Basin Street Blues
Colouring The Family Tree 2
Once you become addicted to colourising your old family photographs it is difficult to know when to stop. Here are a selection of my old family photographs that have been through the colourising machine this week. One of my favourite photographs of the Liverpool Usher sisters. The one on the right is my late mother-in-law, … Continue reading Colouring The Family Tree 2
Colouring The Family Tree
These days, cars can drive themselves down motorways, computers can land aeroplanes, and algorithms can determine future accademic success.... and nifty little smartphone apps can add colour to your dead grandmothers' face. The technology is there, but should we use it just because it is available? I must confess, I can't decide: in some ways … Continue reading Colouring The Family Tree
Adding A Little Colour To The Family Tree
You know what it's like. It's late. You've been scanning some old family photographs. You're tired, but not quite ready for bed just yet. And anyway, there are a still a couple of millimetres of that 10 year old Laphroaig left in the glass. It would be a shame to rush it. It's important to … Continue reading Adding A Little Colour To The Family Tree
I Am A Rock, I Am An Island
The last two frames of the strip of negatives from the winter of 1964/65 reveal how I can be so sure of both the date and the place. They show the destination of my walk, which was to my brothers' new house in East Street, Lightcliffe. I may be neither a rock, nor an island … Continue reading I Am A Rock, I Am An Island
Mirth And Enjoyment
Entrance to the Grand Pier at Weston-Super-Mare (Frank Fieldhouse and Miriam Burnett) (F1c) The entrance to the Grand Pier at Weston-Super-Mare in England. The photo dates from the mid 1930s, and the couple standing in front of the "Mirth" sign are my Uncle and Aunt, Frank and Miriam Fieldhouse. The miserable chap who is the … Continue reading Mirth And Enjoyment
