Today for me, in spite of the rain and gloomy sky, was a day when I could smile.

Indigenous Margo Kane call me today. She said, “I need my portrait taken. Do you still take them?” You can imagine how I rapidly replied in glee that I was indeed. She will be coming to my little studio this Saturday. I will shoot her with my digital Fuji X-E3 so that she can immediately use the pictures for a festival she is participating in. But (and this is important) I will replicate the former portrait I took of her using the same film and my Mamiya R-B67 camera. I love the continuity of portraits of a person with a longish time lapse.

Margo Kane - February 2008

 

I smiled today because yesterday my youngest daughter and I went to see the film The Return. It is comforting to know someone who wants to see the same films I want to.

Also yesterday Hilary and I went through more piles of family photographs. Hilary has a better idea of some of the dates. I have a two drawers of a metal filing cabinet in my office that is full of files in folders that are dated. I will place these there.

In those piles I found some photographs I had taken of Rosemary through the years. I had selected some in my blogging history (beginning in 2006) but there were many I had forgotten and many I had not seen.

This morning I snipped all the Rosemary negatives and placed them in a dedicated folder labelled Rosemary.

It is overwhelming to be a portrait photographer who took thousands of family pictures. The fun part is that I have scanned five of these “new” findings. In them I noticed (would have I noticed these before?) two accidental double exposures in which I obviously had the intention of showing her fabulous legs!

So, yes, this morose man sometimes does smile.