MEMORY BOX
They say that one picture is worth a thousand words. But the thing is, it takes words to say this statement..
Anyway, the following photos were original prints from the old fashion way of photography. I took these with the Nikon FE and I still keep it because it is my very first camera and it went with me to so many places. With the new digicams, my FE "retired", but once in a while I still take a few ones with it so it won't say it is not entirely neglected. It seems to have feelings too and they get extremely hurt when they are already abandoned for newer, better models!
ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE- This is Dixon Road which goes straight to the Airport. At the border of Toronto and Missisauga, Dixon becomes Airport road. Our house is the one in the middle towered by two pine trees. I planted these two trees a week after we moved into the house. Never left it ever since. It is our first and last house.
A few years after we bought our house, then we decided to take a family holiday in the Philippines. It was pure fun! I got the kicks listening to the kids commenting on the sights they see in the Philippines. Stayed there for a month. They taught the local kids in Asingan a few swear words. The kids thought the words were cool sounding and it became a part of their vocabulary.I did not know if they dared use it in their English class....:)
Now that it is summer, I am starting to miss the snow in our backyard. My kids in this old photo were having fun making Mr. and Mrs. Snowman...
Miguelita posed beside the Hotel sign board somewhere in Vancouver. This hotel is right across the Pacific mall, a humongous mall in this beautiful city..
This photo was taken not in Africa but in the Bronx, specifically in the Bronx zoo! There was this tiger but the photo was not well scanned so it is hardly recognizable...
Then we attended this end of summer barn dance here in Toronto. It was a costume party and I decided to use a Marshall Wyatt Earp attire. Complete with a set of toy guns. Surprise! I won the first prize for the Best Costume category. I received a bottle of champagne. At the end of the night, there was this drunken Marshall who was taken home before he starts shooting off his guns or his mouth...
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Comment from britishempress - 10/05/07 8:01 PM
Comment from efrenmark39 - 10/05/07 5:59 PM
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I have lump in my throat and heaviness on my chest viewing these magnificent photos...such lovely memories...something that yours truly never had. Today, I still feel alone and stand solely on the pedestal that I created for myself and even with a family...I do still wish that I had some great memories of my childhood to share to Aiden. Lovely family Manong...truly I am envious!
manong vic,
Quite incidentally, I share your passion for what you termed “old fashioned photography” having worked part-time as photographer and dark-room man during college. There is no doubt that the current advances in technology have revolutionized “image processing” and had brought it several steps forward. Boon to many and bane to some, the trend has brought forth the demise of such industry giants as Konica, Fuji and the like which failed or refuse to retool but had also seen the birth of next generation digital companies.
Consigned to the dustbin of history are photography terms such as “dark rooms”, emulsion-coated photopaper, celluloid films, enlargers, developers, fixers, etc. What I am most sad about is the abstraction of the technical process – from something I could follow and understand as the chemical effect of light on some photo-sensitive substances, I am now lost on how light intensity is converted into bits and bytes of numerical data. While then I could understand how shutter speed and lens opening could be adjusted and combined for a given lighting condition, now the digicam does it all with a built-in sensor. While it simplified life for many, the digi-cam also eliminated some creative tricks such as time-exposure photography, multiple–exposures and other tricks easily done with my old Minolta SLR. Then, I could adjust the lens settings and filters so I could have a crisp, sharp image or create a subdued, dreamy photograph. Now, the autofocus would paint a uniform mood regardless of theme or subject. Of course I know that everything is doable now, it’s just a matter of post processing the digital images with photoshop or similar software but that requires a completely different set of skills.
Fact that I am complaining is probably that I have grown old and passé. :=) Well, as they say, we simply have to adopt or face the fate of the dinosaurs.
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