In other news…

Funny the time we spend time post processing our images to get them to look as they do in these old family photos…
(the new irrelevance of patience and passage of time to create these dear weathered works abounds – and the touch of a couple buttons yields a quite decent equivalent… Yes, there’s an app for that)
Anyhow, my fingers fly as I type out this post because I am SO EXCITED to show you these old family photos that I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. Yes! My mother just sent them my way, while she continues the huge undertaking of archiving all the negatives and prints she has accumulated throughout our lives.
I won’t bother to tell you the number of files she’s scanned in so far, as it may sicken those who aren’t as photo obsessed as our family clearly is, but it’s large!
I LOVE going through these photos. Just like old possessions, photos are my window to a past that I want to see, share, and remember. I DO think that my ever present interest in photography growing up had a lot to do with the joy I got from looking at the moments we have captured on film.

I may have lost you by now, but if not, my other point is this: I’ll be taking on the project of restoring this old photo of me da when he was just a wee lad, and I’m looking forward to posting the before and after when it’s complete 🙂