Posted on May 15, 2020, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, history, learning to see, melinda green harvey, slides, take time to look, thoughtful seeing. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
Posted by Melinda Green Harvey
I was eight years old.
This part of the story is seared into my memory. My dad and I took a walk up a trail from our campsite and he let me take a photo with his camera. I remember that he told me to compose the image with a rock in the foreground, to give it scale. So that’s what I did. All these years, I remembered the photo, with that rock, a valley, a distant mountain. I remembered that the rock was on the left side of the image.
Time passed.
Seven years ago, I cleaned out my dad’s house. I didn’t keep a lot of things, but I held on to a big box of slides. I was able, without much searching (because my dad was a reasonable good labeler) to find the slides from that summer vacation when I was eight. And there was MY photo – framed exactly like I remembered.
Today, one of my photographer friends’ Instagram post referenced a slide-scanning app called SlideScan. And you know what I did then.
And so, here I present the very first photo that I ever made, rock-for-scale and all.
near Twin Lakes, Colorado
photographed summer of 1964
Posted on May 15, 2020, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, history, learning to see, melinda green harvey, slides, take time to look, thoughtful seeing. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
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An auspicious start.
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A start, anyway.
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I’ll go with auspicious.
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If you think that’s what you need to do, OK.
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Darn good, kiddo. “It was written.”
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Thank you. I truly treasure that slide.
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Worthy of a real scanner and good software.
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Yes. One of these days….
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Oh, marvellous!
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Thank you, Sue.
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😊😊
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Nice start! I have no idea where my first image is but can guarantee it couldn’t hold a candle to this which is good because it would melt the emulsion.
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Thanks. And, yeah, be careful with the candles!
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