Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan, I always look forward to your photos. The ones from the 70s have a special meaning for me, apart from their value as photos. They make me think, "Yes, I remember when things looked like that." Perhaps nostalgia ain't what it used to be, but it's still nice sometimes. --Peter Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > Fifty years ago today, I took this shot of a man tearing bits of a poster > from the side of his truck.? Kathryn and I were driving back to our > apartment (still in our wedding outfits) after our reception in my parent's > house (there were only about 18 of us total).? This was the year of the > first Earth Day, so we were yelling at the guy to stop littering the street. > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Seventies/19700829_MR_Mine_24.jpg.html > > > Pentax Spotmatic, 50mmf/1.4 Super-Takumar, Kodachrome II. > > Our wedding came six months after we first went out. Kat & I are still > together.? She's got two new knees; I've got a lot less hair on the top of > my head and way more on my face, and can still fit in my striped, > psychedelic shirt and corduroy vest I wore at the ceremony, but not the > bell-bottom pants (if I still had them)?? ;^) > > -- > Alan