Archive for the family Category

Birthday for Great London Nan 2000

Great London Nanny on her birthday – shot in March 2000, I can’t for the life of me remember where this was taken, it was some hall we annually booked for such a great occasion – comments please – fill in the gaps on ones fickle memory.

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Muddy Waters

Even the wisest of photographers occasionally overlook the deceivingly deep mud present across The Wash’s shore lines (Snettisham Beach), could it be the calling of an imminent sunset, or perhaps a distant seal? – No, at the time it was simply a test to see how firm the mud was – the results are quite visible.  Photographs from the visibly muddy artist can be found here 

stuckinthemud.jpg (for those interested the features camera here is a Nikok F60 (one of the first to include a depth-of-field preview button)

Roman Day 1992 - 1993

Jason Luke Hodges dressed for Roman Day at Hawthorn Primary School - 1992, 1993 ish.

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Daft Buggers

 Image speaks for itself - daft buggers (notice the absence of oh-sensible-one)

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Classic Porsche 911

I have been a little inactive on the photography front of late, and so I decided to trawl through some of a large collection of scanned family photographs from old times and new, and thusly this shot is not of my doing but has value all the same.Back in the days pre-1980 my uncle Stephen owned a frisky Porsche 911, he later sold it and bought himself a home; wonderful picture with some real speed to it (ill try find out what racetrack this was taken on).

London Post Officers

Another one of a collection of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives. The scratches to this picture proved to difficult (without dedicated too much time) to remove without loosing original detail, so for the sake of presentation I have left this picture untouched. (I may revisit these old black and white pictures in an attempt to clean them further – perhaps when I acquire Photoshop CS4).

Here my great granddad and his work colleague on the job with their errands worth of mail, in those days Post Officers were regarded with high renown and dressed in a much smarter garb. Honestly speaking, if I could walk around dressed like that, and be awarded, on a daily basis, the respect these people were, I would happily sign up.

Stephen & Susan Long (riding hats)

Here we have one of a collection (not all uploaded) of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives, not my work, but I have tried my humble best to present a digital copy.

Horses have always been in my family, here is a lovely warm picture of my mother and uncle (brother and sister) with their riding hats on, lovely texture in this picture. Almost unchanged with minor noise removed and a little cropping.

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Here we have one of a collection (not all uploaded) of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives, not my work, but I have tried my humble best to present a digital copy.

The native dimensions of this photograph matched that of an old tea-card, however for this shot I managed to remove some of the more predominant scratches without loosing original detail. I have little information about this picture apart from its rough date which is around 1950s.

London 1951

Here we have one of a collection (not all uploaded) of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives, not my work, but I have tried my humble best to present a digital copy.

London 1951, photograph of perhaps my granddad or one of his three brothers. Nothing has been done to this image, its as the print would look (only enlarged from its original tea-card dimensions).

Distant Horizons

Perhaps not the most awe-inspiring photograph but, from a personal standpoint, it does posses a certain mood to it. Masterfully framed, despite the unwelcome scratches acquired from scanning an old weathered 6 x 4 print. The print appears to be filed in my November 2002 shots, though I suspect this was taken earlier in the year.