I was so disappointed when Kodachrome ceased production a few years back, because the film gave a certain quality to photographs that simply cannot be matched by other filmstock or digital. I'm not a huge fan of color (most hard copies I take are B&W), but I loved that true-sunlight feel you got.
Hurm. Looking at these and realizing how many were here makes me annoyed that our aero industry has all-but dried up and moved on to other markets. Not that I, in any way, would want the production to return to SoCal just to feed a war, but I hate driving by the old, boarded up factories that are still standing, and seeing them slowly rotting out into nothing.
I think I remember you mentioning that. Honestly, most of the time the pictures I've seen up to the mid-70s were done in black&white (and my dad's photography phase was b&w -- wish I still had that portait of mom in her cancan outfit), so it's just really really awesome to have this visual reminder that yes, there was colour in the world! Before I was born and saw it myself! Kodachrome is really really clear, isn't it? *pets pictures*
I understand the feeling. This province is studded with ghost towns, places that just emptied out after WWII because we did not have the population anymore. I have been to a town with literally one citizen. (He was born there, and he provides maintenance on the road and some of the hiking trails that go through the forest that's grown in the ruins.) Times and places and needs change, I know, but it's always a little strange to me to know that places that were bustling in the lifetime of people I personally knew -- my maternal great-grandparents and paternal grandparents -- are now just empty. You expect kind of the opposite, development where there was farmland or something, and of course that happens, but it's not a universal increase, it's like an eddying tide...
The woman in that last one looks like someone I went to university with.
so it's just really really awesome to have this visual reminder that yes, there was colour in the world! Before I was born and saw it myself!
Word association...
"The War Was In Color," and you will cry through some of it, so warning is there.
You expect kind of the opposite, development where there was farmland or something, and of course that happens, but it's not a universal increase, it's like an eddying tide...
Sometimes, it run totally backwards. Detroit is slowly getting eaten away and turned into urban farmsteads. Go figure.
We've only got one color picture of my Gramma from the 40s -- she had VERY red hair. Like, more red than Lucile Ball red. She was very pretty. :3
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Date: 2012-11-09 08:37 pm (UTC)Hurm. Looking at these and realizing how many were here makes me annoyed that our aero industry has all-but dried up and moved on to other markets. Not that I, in any way, would want the production to return to SoCal just to feed a war, but I hate driving by the old, boarded up factories that are still standing, and seeing them slowly rotting out into nothing.
Christ that last picture. ;o;
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Date: 2012-11-09 10:17 pm (UTC)I understand the feeling. This province is studded with ghost towns, places that just emptied out after WWII because we did not have the population anymore. I have been to a town with literally one citizen. (He was born there, and he provides maintenance on the road and some of the hiking trails that go through the forest that's grown in the ruins.) Times and places and needs change, I know, but it's always a little strange to me to know that places that were bustling in the lifetime of people I personally knew -- my maternal great-grandparents and paternal grandparents -- are now just empty. You expect kind of the opposite, development where there was farmland or something, and of course that happens, but it's not a universal increase, it's like an eddying tide...
The woman in that last one looks like someone I went to university with.
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Date: 2012-11-10 06:04 am (UTC)Word association...
"The War Was In Color," and you will cry through some of it, so warning is there.
You expect kind of the opposite, development where there was farmland or something, and of course that happens, but it's not a universal increase, it's like an eddying tide...
Sometimes, it run totally backwards. Detroit is slowly getting eaten away and turned into urban farmsteads. Go figure.
We've only got one color picture of my Gramma from the 40s -- she had VERY red hair. Like, more red than Lucile Ball red. She was very pretty. :3
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Date: 2012-11-11 06:44 pm (UTC)We've only got one color picture of my Gramma from the 40s -- she had VERY red hair. Like, more red than Lucile Ball red. She was very pretty. :3
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