The Twilight Report - 1983

old photos 62-86 / july 1983

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:25:00 GMT

Sunday 11 May 2008 3:25PM

Grandpa's photos July 1983.

Bandelier
Santa Fe
[illegible] Springs
Pikes Peak

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old photos closer to home

Sat, 3 May 2008 20:47:00 GMT

Saturday 3 May 2008 8:47PM

July 1983:

I scanned another roll of grandpa’s C-41 today. These ones are from the same trip, and according to the envelope scroll include:

Taos
Bandelier
Rio Grande
Los Alamos

Los Alamos

The pond is named after someone named Ashley Pond (I kid you not)

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These were taken before the last set that I posted. They are all in New Mexico, closer to the area where I actually grew up. Although, again, this was long before we had any idea that we’d be moving out there. I had to spot more of these than from the last set, although the majority were completely clean! Some of them had some paper glued to the edges, put there probably by whomever had processed the film. I hate it when places do that because it is not good for the long term storage of the film.

Grandpa was a good photographer. There isn’t a single frame that is out of focus or incorrectly exposed, and the compositions are good.

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old photos 86-99

Fri, 2 May 2008 22:04:00 GMT

Friday 2 May 2008 10:04PM

August 1983, photographer: grandpa (except for the few photos with him in it). The envelope has these four names scralled on it:

Pikes Peak
Bear Lake
Dean Lake
Chasm Falls

(there maybe errors in the transcribing process, of course)

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I think these were taken on our first trip out to the Southwest, when we were living in New Haven, and therefore before we had any idea that we’d end up living there for nearly twenty years. I found these and plenty others while we were cleaning out the shack. I only did some minor spotting on two of the photographs, and colour correction on one small region of another where there was an unnatural green cast. They are in remarkably good nick given the age and how they were stored.

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