So last week I finally sat down and made myself start on writing, well rewriting my CV [yes I know - finally!]. In the great migration over the pond I brought with my my memory stick with all my old university essays and former job hunting attempts to find inspiration. Little did I know that this stick had a few of the scans I'd uploaded in trying to capture some of negatives of my granddad's photographs. By the looks of it my grandad was a bit of a photographer at heart [another thing I inherited from him] although far better at landscapes. I have no idea what type of photographic film they were taken on - some where in colour and others black and white but I do remember them being pretty large in comparison to the traditional negative out there. All these were scanned in and I attempted at the time to play with the colours. I just think they deserve to be seen - I think he'd like to be featured on my blog.
Clearly some came out better after being scanned then others but you do get a great sense of the landscape within which they were taken. They were probably taken in the early to mid 1980s [he died early 1987] and I pretty much think they were all take in the Lake District [bar the obvious one of Durham Cathedral] where they use to holiday and hike a lot. I especially love the last two - they just seem to get the landscape elements just right and bring me a lot closer to the man I never got the chance to know.
Don't you just love finding old photographs?!