Photographs

Rachael, April 1997  Blasts From the Past  Proud , privileged and very much looking forward to walking my wonderful daughter, Rachael, down the aisle this weekend.

Nathan, Brian and Ella, York, April 2002  Blasts From the Past  Key of the door today for Ella, here with her brother and father on holiday with us in York. Happy Birthday! I prefer the monochrome version so it's on here first. Below is the colour version from a scanned Kodachrome transparency. And the original, direct from the scanner - very contrasty in the sunshine.

Cousins, 1995  Blasts From the Past  Happy Birthday to neice, Jen.

Candlestick Maker, 2002  Blasts From the Past  Happy Birthday to nephew, Phil.

Sonia, June 1990  Blasts From the Past  In May 1990 I was fortunate enough...

Anne, Christmas 1991  Blasts From the Past  Here is my sister, Anne, again (see Blast From the Past No. 2 ) - this time though it's Christmas 1991. The original Kodak Ektar 100 negative was scanned and then processed in Lightroom and Photoshop to arrive at the result above. The monochrome version below was converted using Nik Silver Efex (Soft Sepia). Below is the output from the scanner... 

Rachael, April 1995  Blasts From the Past  Three for the price of one this week. There was clearly a bit of a photoshoot going on here, as I discovered several very similar shots. Above is the one I like the best. I've also included the following two though...

Wedding Party Blasts From the Past  I originally posted this photographs when my own daughter announced her engagement. So, with talk of weddings then in the air, here is sister Anne's marriage to Martin Woollacott. Colour and black and white conversions of an original Kodak VR 100 negative.    ...and the output directly from the scanner... 

Back to School, June 1981  Blasts From the Past  ...well almost. Here are old school chums, Roger Pickup and Hywel Benjamin, during a visit Hywel and I made to Anglesey in June 1981. Shot on Kodacolor CII probably in Beaumaris.  Here in black and white... Here it is straight from the scanner...

Eyes Wide Shut.  Blasts From the Past.  Here's my sister, Anne, aged 19. Scanned from the original Kodacolor VR 1000 negative, so fairly soft and grainy. Processed in Lightroom to produce the image above and the monochrome version below. Here is the output from the scanner...

Sonia, New Year 1989/90, Sandwich in Kent. Blasts From the Past.     This was the first of my " Blasts From the Past " series of scanned slides and negatives, so stay tuned for regular additions. Watch out for embarrassing clothes, haircuts and baby pictures. This one shows my wife (then fiance), Sonia, during a New Year break in Sandwich in Kent. It was taken with a Pentax ME Super camera on Kodak Ektar 1000, so quite grainy and flat in the colour original. Below is a monochrome version. The unedited scan is shown below. I had to do some scratch and dust removal then B&W conversion with some added contrast in Photoshop.