Two At A Time
Saturday, November 09, 2013
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| Left, Wreck Beach, right Les Wiseman & Mary Jo Kopechne |
Film has never been cheap. In my early
career in the late 70s as a magazine photographer I tried to squeeze as many
assignments into a roll of film as possible. Many people in those days went a
step further. They might go for a winter vacation in Hawaii and perhaps take 20 pictures on a 36
exposure roll. Instead of having the roll processed they might wait for another
picture taking situation to finish the roll. Or, and this happened a lot, they
might forget all about it. They might take out their camera months later and
open the back to put film in and… We know how that story ends.
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| Alex W-H & Maurice Depas |
I suspect that the pictures you see hear
must be from sometime around 1977. I was still using a strange but very sharp film
(even though many of these here are not!) called Kodak Special Order 115. It was
later was renamed Technical Pan. It was the sharpest film ever made. Its extended red sensitivity rendered skin to look almost pristine.
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| Left John Armstrong (aka Buck Cherry) & Alex W-H |
I found the negatives and matching contact
sheet filed as family 1977. Because of the snapshot of my eldest daughter Ale
having her hair done by Nancy Gillespie (the hairdresser of a whole Vancouver generation of
punk musicians), and the snap in my Fiat, I had the negs filed with family. But there are others that seem to
have been taken in three separate times at three separate punk concerts which I
find interesting.
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| Left, unknown, right Bev Davies |
I would like to clear the air and mention
that the picture of this photographer posing with musician Maurice Depas has me
smoking a cheroot. It is not what you might think it is.
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| Right Cathy Cleghorn |
What I particularly found interesting was
that when I scanned a negative next to the one next to it the result put a smile
in my face.
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| Left, Gord Nicholl, Les Wiseman, John Lekich, Right Johno & Kristine Thimsen |
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| Jim Cummins aka Braineater |
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| Left, Nancy Gillespie & Ale Waterhouse-Hayward, Right Ale & father |
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| Top Rosemary, Ale, Hilary & Alex Waterhouse-Hayward with friend Paul Leisz |
