Reel to Reel, a Journey Through Our Analog Past
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Fisherman fishing off the wharf
Bedford Channel, Fraser River
Fort Langley, BC
Across the channel, a ribbon of campfire smoke escapes through the trees.
Fort Langley is a village community forming part of the Township of Langley in British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of 3,400. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company. Lying on the Fraser River, Fort Langley is at the northern edge of the Township of Langley. ( Wikipedia )
A special thanks to you all, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I appreciate your visits & kind words of support.
~Christie by the River
**Best experienced in full screen
Old school fishing, two silhouettes in a small pleasure craft... equipped with rods and reels.
Did you happen to notice the swell of the ocean approaching the port side of the boat?
** Best experienced in full screen mode. Your views are so appreciated. Thank-you for visiting.
``Christie
Macro Monday - Wood
These are miniature wooden cotton reels, from my craft stash, the smallest is about 2cm high and the largest about 5cm. HMM
I got locked out of my Flickr account today, I don't know if it was because I'm not on Flickr so much or if it was just being a bad panda but luckily after a while it recognised my password. Anyone else had this problem?
Please pardon my very deliberate pun and play on words. As well as an alternative name for a cotton spool, a Scottish reel is a lively, traditional Celtic social dance and musical form, popular since the Sixteenth Century. It features pairs or sets of dancers performing quick, energetic movements, alternating between traveling figures and stationary "setting" steps. Danced to fast 2/4 or 4/4 time music, it is a staple of ceilidhs, Scottish country dancing, and Highland culture.
For those of you who follow my photostream, you know that I collect and photograph Dewhurst's Sylko cotton reels, however I also collect beautiful old pre-war cotton reels from British businesses, many of which have fallen into memory and lost to the mists of time. I couldn't think of a better spool than that of one from the prominent high-end department store of Draffen & Jarvie, which was located on Nethergate in Dundee, Scotland to use with this playful pun! This reel has the charming dye shade of "Mist Blue", which is the palest shade of blue that it could almost be white or cream. Therefore, I decided to accessorise it with some of my vintage haberdashery pieces in pale pastel shades. It sits upon a bed of machine embroidered sequin net with an antique velvet grosgrain ribbon in pale pink draped around it. Behind it are two vintage roses: one satin in an almost icy blue and the other cotton in creamy white and pale pink. The tiny silver button at the front is Victorian, whilst the glass button and Bakelite and silver button are from the 1930s. The Art Deco buckle is iridescent pale blue Bakelite, designed to emulate mother-of-pearl.
Draffen and Jarvie was a prominent, high-end department store located on Nethergate in Dundee, Scotland, active from the late Nineteenth Century until its eventual takeover by Debenhams in 1981. The original firm began its career in 1834 when William Moon and John Langlands opened a little store at 10 Overgate. They were the pioneers of a new style of business and were the first shopkeepers in Dundee to deal in fixed prices, instead of selling, as the custom was then, by bargaining. The new method met with an encouraging response from a time when gentlemen wore silks. The quality of the goods attracted a growing custom and Moon and Langlands were soon on the hunt for bigger premises. They moved to 27 Overgate and 1 Tally Street in 1837 and a circular was issued following the switch containing a list of goods for sale. Men could choose their coats from cloths in blues, clarets, dahlias or olives; their vests from silk or swans down; and trousers from cotton drills or painted moleskins. The hosiery offered for sale for men included open-work silk stockings and by 1842 the new Overgate premises were too small for the ever-growing volume of customers. Albion House was erected at the corner of Union Street and the firm stated that “each department will be found to contain a large assortment of very choice goods, and will be under the superintendence of a young man of experience who shall give the most vigilant attention to every customer”. The original partnership came to an end a few years after the move to Union Street when Mr. Langlands retired and was replaced by John Robertson. The business flourished and prospered through the long rein of Queen Victoria until Mr. Moon died in 1887 and the firm was bought by Thomas Blakeney. A serious fire devastated Albion House and Mr. Blakeney instigated a redevelopment of the centre of Dundee after the clearance of slum dwellings. The firm moved into premises which were known as Blakeney’s Building at the corner of Whitehall Street and Nethergate. In 1889 Mr. Blakeney sold the concern to Coatbridge draper George Draffen, who ran the business in partnership with his brother-in-law John Jarvie. In 1891, Mr. Jarvie was bought out by Mr. Draffen. He was the sole proprietor until 1896 when he took his sons – William Stirling Draffen and John J Draffen – into partnership. His sons played a leading part in the expansion of the business following his death and Draffen’s became increasingly well-known for its comprehensive service. The firm celebrated its centenary in 1934 with the opening of a new men’s store and a series of displays and the exhibition "Cavalcade of Fashion – 1834-1833" which included a gown worn by Queen Victoria amongst the vintage costumes on display. Roy Langford, a costume scholar in London, arrived in Dundee to arrange the dresses for the exhibition which were coming from Canada. The department store had a prominent impact on Dundee’s shopping and social scene and gradually introduced various tearooms, lounges and a restaurant on its top floor. The firm continued to be known as Draffen and Jarvie Ltd before becoming Draffen’s of Dundee in 1948. Known as one of Dundee's "big four" retailers – G.L Wilson, Draffen’s, D.M Brown and Smith Brothers, it was a major shopping destination before the rise of modern chain stores. The store and its associated restaurant went into a slow decline before being taken over by Debenhams in March 1981. Debenhams then spent almost two decades at the site before it became the anchor store at the heart of the Overgate’s second reincarnation in Dundee in March 2000. In 2016 part of the basement area was reopened to form a speakeasy bar, which has continued the Draffen’s name, and in December 2019 the green light was given to plans for even more of the old department store’s floors to be opened up and turned into a whisky bar and a restaurant.
This is the take up spool on an Ihagee 500 35mm camera. These East German cameras were really rather well built. The spool on this 500 has a rather nice anodised green cap on the bottom end. The whole back of the camera slides off to load a film and there doesn't look to be any particularly suitable slot for the anodised cap to sit in, yet it all works rather nicely. Shot here with a green flash pointing down and away and red flash right onto the spool. There is around 2.25 inches of scene here. HMM
Fishing Reel
For Macro Monday - Reels
A couple of years ago our state government decided to give every year five student a fishing rod and reel. This was the reel that came with Sarah's rod. We replaced it with a better quality reel.
The external diameter of this reel is 50mm.
A quick post and run as my physio appointment was changed from this morning to this afternoon so I have to 'hit the road' to Footscray shortly.
Happy Macro Monday!
A tape cassette that hasn't been played in decades. There is a box full of tapes like this in the basement and no cassette player within miles. The image covers about 65mm top to bottom . HMM and thanks for any views, faves and comments.
This very early Super Simplex 35mm film movie projector from the early 1930's on display in the Warner Theater, Torrington, CT, and was manufactured by The Precision Machine Co., New York, NY.
Edwin S. Porter, director of “The Great Train Robbery”, left the employ of Edison, bought the Precision Machine Company and produced the Simplex projector in 1909. He had improved the design of the Edison Exhibition Kinetoscope and was responsible for the Super Simplex, which was introduced in the early 1930s. The Simplex line of projectors was one of the most popular American Brands from the silent era until the transition to digital projection. Simplex projectors were originally manufactured by the Precision Machine Company. Over the course of a series of mergers and consolidations, the Simplex line was manufactured by the International Projector Corporation, General Precision, Inc., National Theater Supply. This is a museum-worthy projector is of significant historical importance. The best of early movie history and an amazing survivor.
Catherine's cell photo
Are you reelin' in the years?
Stowin' away the time..,
The weekend in the college didn't turn out like you planned
The things you think are useless I can't understand
Walter Carl Becker / Donald Jay Fagen (Steely Dan ‧ 1972)
120 Film Developer Reel
2 3/4 inches wide
My favourite genre is Still Life and I'm hoping at some point I will be able to get back into the regular swing of it _ maybe I could get myself some sort of back support to avoid the inevitable aches and pains! I do find heat pads particularly soothing. Ha ha - forgive my ramblings - this is supposed to be about photography !
When it was my birthday a few months ago, a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. She also gave me three follow up tins of similar delightful gifts for Christmas.
Amongst the gifts was this pretty ribbon of yellow and white embroidered daisies which I have set up on the back terrace with my garden as a backdrop against one of my antique embroidered Art Deco doilies from the 1930s, and accessorised with two spools of Dewhurst's Sylko lemon yellow cotton, which date from between 1954 and 1958.
Belle Vue Mill, commonly known as Dewhurst’s, was built by Thomas Dewhurst in 1828. It opened in 1829 as John Dewhurst & Sons and was one of Skipton’s largest spinning and weaving mills. The mill’s position next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal meant that raw cotton could be shipped in by boats from Liverpool. Finished goods would then be sent back the same way ready for distribution. Coal to power the machine’s steam engines was also delivered by barge. In 1897 Dewhurst’s was bought by the English Sewing Cotton Co. It continued to produce Sylko, one of the mill’s most famous products. It was produced in over 500 colours and sold throughout the world. Sylko cottons are still available at haberdashers today.
My contribution for this weeks Macro Mondays. My favourite thread for presents got to be my object for today sitting on its reel.
A 1000' (304.8m) reel holding red leader film, normally used to signify the tail end.
Even though it's called leader, red brings up the rear, so to speak. It's just like previews, nicknamed trailers even though they appear before the movie (originally, they followed the movie, hence the name).
As soon as I saw the theme for this week my mind went straight to this button. It's glass and dates back to the 1940s. The wooden cotton reel is French and from the 1950s. The hand-dyed pale blue silk ribbon is new.
For this week's Smile on Saturday group theme, Pink and Blue.
A common obsession here on the coast: Collecting and using them. These belong to one of the fellas here on the farm.