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The beach featured prominently in family outings with my parents. It was our weekend getaway and by design or luck, we were never far away from water. Maybe it had something to do with my father's merchant mariner days or perhaps it was the many travels to faraway places. Along the way there was always a camera in hand and I remember having to endure the long wait while he adjusted settings and focused manually. Ironically enough, now I'm the one adjusting the settings and fortunate enough to have a spouse that shares my interest.
We said goodbye to my father today. He was 90, sick with cancer, and had reached his limit. Everyone fell silent when the MAID doctor knocked on the apartment door and we waited anxiously for the drugs to end his suffering. Now our shoebox memories are all that's left and in this photo, which seemed a fitting tribute, Dad is taking my sister and I to the beach many years ago in Liberia.
Before the advent of digital photography, my practice was to have 3 x 5 prints made from each roll of film. Life was captured and documented, 24 or 36 exposures at a time. Quaint by today's standards where a typical photo shoot easily yields 500 or 1,000 images. Even still, over time, these prints really added up. My collection wound up in old shoeboxes, stored away in a closet. Every now and again I would go off in search of a particular photo. Usually a single-minded search would result in the passage of an hour or more with me sitting on the floor surround by stacks of photos. There would be a stack of 'keepers' containing long-forgotten photos of special significance. I would always wonder why these had been consigned to the shoebox in the first place. There would also be stacks of people photos, sometimes old friends and family; especially heart rending if I came across images of people that had died. Each photo seemed to bring back a vivid memory of a time or place. Something about the picture-taking process seems to help cement the memory in my brain. Sort of a mental EXIF file implanted in my mind. Often repressed or long forgotten, but seeing the old photo helps me recall the circumstances surrounding the photo. Eventually I would either find the photo I was in search of, or more often, not find it and simply grow weary after an extended trip down memory lane. I would carefully repack the prints into the shoebox, with (reluctantly) the 'keepers' going in last. Now that the last several years of images are all digital, I'm no longer fill shoe boxes with hard copies. I still go back through the archives; the process is far less tactile but no less mesmerizing. This morning I came across this image from a couple of years ago. Definitely going into the 'keeper' pile.
Another file from 2007, finally processed for the first time. '49 Ford at the bus yard in Williams, at the end of dusk for 74 seconds, with red LED flashlight.
In the attic I came across negatives from the latter half of the 1960s when I was a teenager. On the lightbox I was both appalled by their physical quality and intrigued as to what they contained; therefore, I decided to have a closer look. I propose to post an edited selection over the coming days.
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That's a '49 Ford 4-door sedan and an old COE truck I haven't quite identified yet.
Fellow Flickr photographer Ben Schwarz has identified it as a converted American LaFrance fire apparatus. It sure looks like one that's been altered a bit.
Running in 6X01's path, 66792 and 73966 fly through Water Orton with 0O01 Doncaster Hexthorpe Yard to Eastleigh East Yard.
73965 leads 1Q79 09.05 Tonbridge Yard to Derby RTC through East Goscote in stunning evening light on 30th June 2018. For once 1Q79 stuck to booked route via Corby. 73961 Is on the rear.