[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo-On My Wedding Day

Peter Klein boulanger.croissant at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 17:37:56 PDT 2020


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


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