Lost & Found
Sunday, October 25, 2026
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| Alhambra |
These days,
as I look around my house, I am overwhelmed as to how I
can deal with so much stuff. Had I lived in Port Alberni all my life I would
not have so much of it. A major part of all this are purchases I made with
Rosemary in our life together for 52 years. We travelled to many places and
bought souvenirs.
In my oficina I have extensive nicely kept in
alphabetical order, all my negatives and slides. I have separate filing cabinet
drawers reserve to writers, gardeners and our garden pictures, women, travel
and two reserved to the family.
A few days ago I became upset when I could not find
photographs I had taken when Rosemary, our daughters and I went to London,
Paris and then drove from Madrid to Málaga in a rented car. I just had the date
wrong and found them filed in the family file under the date 1985- Paris –
London- Spain.
The negatives are pristine as are the prints I printed
in my Burnaby darkroom (we moved to Kerrisdale a year later). One of the prints
of the Sacré-Cour church in Paris had our young Hilary on the bottom left.
Because I have a scanner I decided to scan it instead of scanning the negative.
I find the deterioration of the print (not archival Ilford paper) lovely. The
red prints here are scans of the original negatives that I colourized by adding
yellow and red with my Photoshop 8.
Something has to be said
about “everything in its place is order |
| Toledo from spot where El Greco painted his landscape |
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| Near Toledo |
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| Sacre-Coeur - Paris with Hilary |
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| La Giralda in Seville - my daughter Alexandra in bottom |
