Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What a terrible loss! My father had no interest in photography as such, but he kept photos, including some from before WW2: http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/My-fathers-pictures/ I have lots more, just have not got around to putting them in the gallery yet. The picture of my father and his mother and brother is to be found in Wajsman homes on three continents. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > >> I just thought I'd share some of the interesting pictures that are in my >> father's collection as the events recede in time. > > > These are important, for a lot of reasons. The series now appearing on > The Atlantic site, yours, and others, are essential parts of preserving > our shared memories. > > I am deeply saddened by the loss, in our family, of ALL the photos my > father took, from 1939 to 1945, during his service in the Navy?.North > Atlantic convoy duty, invasion of North Africa, Sicily, Guadalcanal, > Normandy? > > My Mother, in a difficult time after my Father's death, threw away all the > photos AND the negatives, which I had hoped to scan. There were hundreds > and hundreds of photos and all the negatives. (He never threw anything > away.) > > My children had seen some of the photos when they were younger and were > very eager to have them scanned for family records. I think they have > been more disappointed than I. > > My oldest daughter, in particular, when it dawned on her that her > grandfather had served for virtually the entire war in major theaters, was > devastated. > > He used a Zeiss folder, don't know which model, and the negatives were > pristine, many of them still in the original cellophane envelopes. > > His interest in photography was rekindled later, after I gave him his > first SLR, a Minolta SRT 101. He became the designated family > photographer for all our functions, and I DO HAVE all the slides! > > Again, my thanks for sharing these with us. They ARE important! > > Ken > -------------------------- > Kenneth Frazier > kennybod at me.com > kennybod at mac.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >