Tintree

I have lots of monochrome negatives. Most are 35mm but amongst then are a few 2×2 from the days of the box Brownies. This one I found the other day. It was taken on a Sunday in June when I was either eleven or twelve. I’m the one in the striped top – it was red and white and made of nylon and I hated it but mother liked it. We are all sat on the beach at Hayling Island (east of Portsmouth, Hampshire)  The lad with the ‘kiss me quick’ hat is my cousin and my brother is just visible in the background. Father is taking the photo.
What is weird is that I can remember lots of silly details about this day. The hats were a result of my cousin throwing a tantrum because he had no money. Mother felt sorry for him so we all got one – just to be fair. It was windy but not cold and I think it was mandatory then to have a windbreak for everyone to hide behind. This is a habit that seems to have died out now. Perhaps windbreak construction is a lost art? After this photo, and a couple of others had been taken it was sandwich time. In those days sandwiches had real sand in them. My cousin got the ham ones, and my brother a ham and a cheese one. I got a cheese and a salmon one. I hated pink salmon and gave it to the dog (you can just see it between my cousins knees). That got me a telling off, but the dog was happy.

A day out over 47 years ago and I remember the sandwiches and sitting on the sand looking at my father taking a picture. This picture. Priceless.

Actually its not a ‘real’ postcard but I did see some just like it.

Came across a wonderful process called the Droste effect. Its fun but needs the right sort of base image to start with – which of course I have very few of.

These are a couple of shadow puppets from Le Chat Noir, Paris.

I got some new software the other day, and I actually brought a ‘manual/teach yourself guide’ and I read it (following every example exercise) from cover to cover BEFORE I tried to USE the software.

I realise that this instantly removes me from the hallowed ranks of ‘IT Professionals’ and puts me firmly into the group of the less renowned ‘Deluded Users Who Have Read a Book’. In my defense and I have been feeling a bit unwell of late and the only other time this has happened is when my workplace ‘upgraded’ from C/PM to MS-DOS. I had fought a rearguard action to move to C/PM Plus but I lost to the forces of evil. I was forced to read the installation manual printed on the 5.25″ floppy disc.

That explains why the colour on this image is a bit off too.