[LRflex] Re: Old slides and negatives given new life in BW - second set
- From: Alan Kett <hspwalker@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Leica Users Group <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LEG <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
Douglas:
I'm a read-only guy on the forum, but I felt compelled to write, having looked
at your "time machine" images. You and I must be much of an age. I grew up in
Stockton-on-Tees in the 50's and 60's and spent my youth visiting just the same
places you did. I bicycled all over the Pennines, especially Swaledale and
Wensleydale, as a teenager and was a frequent visitor to the youth hostels
there. Whitby was a favorite destination for the Sunday family outing in the
Morris Minor, so the shots of the town resonated with me.
I wish I'd documented my youth as extensively as you did. Even the hair looks
familiar, but is, alas, a distant memory now. :)
Regards,
Alan
--- On Thu, 7/2/09, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> wrote:
From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
Subject: [LRflex] Old slides and negatives given new life in BW - second set
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "LEG" <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 1:40 PM
Thanks to all who took a look so far, and your kind comments,
As in the first set, some of these are at least 40 years old - I think the
earliest is from around 1965, of me stting in my school uniform and making
Christmas garlands, but there are some from the late eighties, too.
The original slides have lost some colour but some are still very sharp (I'm
certain that the cottage gardens in RHB were shot with a Zeiss Ikon SL706 with
an Ultron 50 - an utterly gorgeous lens that I still kick myself for having
sold).
Hope you enjoy this new set, there's more to come later.
I'm on the ones I didn't take
The new set starts here with a shot of where I was born and lived until I was
12 or 13 and finishes with the first shot I ever took with a Leica - in 1977 in
Neuharlingersiel on the German North Sea coast (it was an M2 complete with a
collapsible Elmar 50 that I bought from a colleague at work):
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Old+Slides+and+Negs/Old_slides_20031119-0_7b.jpg.html
Cheers
Douglas
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