Family Portraits

[ConsAreLiars]

Been scanning some old slides recently, and came across this one, which I like. Maybe others have some pix which they'd like to post that they feel are aethetically pleasing and tell some bit of truth about them and their families -- what they like, who they are, how they live, etc.?

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I inherited thousands of slides

that my father took from 1955 until ? - sometime in the '80s, probably, when he started shooting prints and camcording. They're all organized in binders and catalogued, but I just haven't had the time to go through them. What I would like to do is pick out the ones I like best and have them transferred to a DVD for easy viewing (and posting). Most of them I haven't looked at since I was a child - now I have his screen and the slides, but my brother has the old carousel slide projector. We really need to get together for an old-fashioned slide show one of these days (or weeks - LOL). My dad was a great photographer.

[NV Whino]

3. Did we have the same father?

I have tons of slides and negatives that I'm slowly going through. Want to scan them and get them on CDs.

I recently went to Green Mountain Falls, CO and took photos of the lake there. I will post his (taken in the 50s when we lived there) and my current ones when I find the very fine photos he took.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I'm anxious to compare the 1970s pictures of Portage Glacier

with the ones I've taken more recently. The glacier has receded dramatically and a picture (or two) is worth a thousand words.

[intheflow]

2. Me and my sister playing dress-up

with my mother's tacky wigs and costume jewelry in the '70's. It isn't a particularly aesthetically pleasing shot, but I think it captures my family uniquely at that time: older sister, distainful of our parents' Republican materialism, and me, too young to really understand how she was mocking the folks, but absorbing her liberalism all the same. Plus, it was fun to play dress-up with my big sis!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. I'd recognize you anywhere, ITF.

:) You haven't changed a bit.

[intheflow]

7. Hmph!

I have more teeth and haven't worn a wig since that day. Ah, but you must have recognized me because of the open mouth (of "insert foot" fame) and my continued fondness for tacky jewelry. Checkout these earrings!



:silly:

[Blue_In_AK]

8. I LOVE those....

Did you buy them in Memphis? That looks like a Memphis sort of thing.

[intheflow]

9. I bought them in Massachusetts.

But I was singing in a country band at the time, so in my head I was in Memphis. :silly:
As such, I thought they were pefect to wear to JazzFest.

[Maestro]

4. My great grandparents

on my grandfather's side. I love the look of old photographs.

[superconnected]

10. My nieces a few years ago

I had no idea when I took these that they wouldn't be kids anymore so quickly. The older one has had a baby now and the younger one is a teenage.