The Twilight Report

snowy mountains summer 1962

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:43:00 GMT

Grandpa's slides apparently from a trip to the snowy mountains with grandma, mum and uncle graham.

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and then i ride off on my robot dog

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:53:00 GMT

1966:

Warrenbungles
Lightning Ridge
Cunningham's Gap
Races

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kill a robot frog

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:15:00 GMT

Cairns 1967

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kill a robot fish

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:55:00 GMT

More of grandpa's old slides. I am not exactly sure where they are for most of these, except it is probably near Canberra, as I do recognize this first shot. What is missing from this first photo is New Parliament House, which sits today just behind the white building in the distance, which is now known as Old Parliament House, but then simply as Parliament House.

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grandpa's slides

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:01:00 GMT

Grandpa's slides from grandma, grandpa and mum's visit to the Breadknife, Lighting Ridge and the Warren Bungles. Taken in the mid 1960s in country New South Wales

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Of course grandpa isn't in any of these because he took them. Enjoying working with slides again. It's not quite as nice as a black and white dark room, but there is some enjoyment to be had at spotting old photographs and bringing them back to life. Didn't do too much work on these though, I don't feel okay about doing colour correction on grandpa's slides (do it all the time on mine), but removing dust from the scans seems legitimate.

people and things

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:40:00 GMT

some time in the 1980s...

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old photos 62-86 / july 1983

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:25:00 GMT

Grandpa's photos July 1983.

Bandelier
Santa Fe
[illegible] Springs
Pikes Peak

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old photos closer to home

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:47:00 GMT

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.

old photos 86-99

Sat, 03 May 2008 02:04:00 GMT

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.