Well, it was bound to happen. Those little Crash Test Dummies didn’t buckle up, and now they’re hood ornaments.
Morning Coffee.
It’s a staple of snapshots – The Early Morning Surprise. The Embarrassed Eye-Opener. The Bushwacked Spouse. The practice of catching your wife off guard, and when she least expects it – BAM! He’s snapped her photo. It’s usually the stuff of honeymoons; a little tawdry playfulness, a peek sneaked. But this image was in a…
Homecoming.
Dad always had that dumb camera. Every holiday – “click” “click” “click.” Every family trip – “click” “click” “click.” Every Scouts outing – “click” “click” “click.” He could never just live in the moment, he had to capture it. Capture it and own it, and take it out later and show to a never-ending parade…
Past, Present, Future.
I found a large box of negatives – mostly 127 size film – in an antique store. They seem to be mostly from the same Ralston, Nebraska family so far, but time will tell. And speaking of time, it appears that this little fellow may be heading towards what modern parents call a “time out.”…
Little Dummies.
Some years ago, I came into possession of a rather large number of 16mm film prints. They filled a truck. A large truck. One of the hidden treasures when you are searching through old school films are the drivers’ ed movies – the ones with the gory accident footage. Lucky for you, dear reader, this…
A Town Where People Lived.
This image is from a series of negatives found in an Omaha antique store. I do not know what town this is, but by the cars, it is the 1970s. The series suggests that the photographer was walking along a hill, capturing a haphazard panorama of sorts of the neighborhood below. Were they simply using…
The Pride of a Flowerbed.
This image came from a roll of film left in a camera that made its long journey to me some years ago. A woman was selling her deceased husband’s collection, and through a mutual friend, I was the new owner. After developing the film, I inquired as to whether the family would like the images,…