welcome questions mailer wallpaper icons essays viewer resources HOME 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 occassionally, people volunteer additional information with the photo submissions. there are times when the words prove as compelling as the image and i thought i'd share some of them that have stood out. (essay is towards the bottom of the page) Christmas Cheer submitted by Jerry Hazard (usa - nj) everyman 2004 - from the attic My ex girlfriend and I were cleaning out her great-grandparents farmhouse which has been lying dormant and unattended for years, when we came across the negatives. The whole house was like a museum of early 20th century 'everyman' life; old leather bound bibles (big ones too!), all kinds of small farming instruments, barometers, china sets and silverware, picture frames, and just boxes filled with bric-a-brac items - one the coolest things was box full of her great grandfathers Mason articles. A Mason 'dictionary' or handbook, a diary of his advancement, and even his fezz hat. Anyhow, one box contained a lot of old photography items; a Spartacus Full View camera, unused rolls of 126 film (which I did snag and will attempt to use at some point), stacks of old photos of people we don't know, and a lot of negatives too. Most of the negatives were stuck together or stuck in sleeves and couldn't be removed without damage. The image I submitted was one of 4 or 5 that were all taken in the same room, and this was the least "explicit" one. As noted, it was on Agfa Safety Film (no ASA indicated), and I believe they were 126 size negs. Since there were no prints of the negative, I put them up to the window and shot them with my digital camera, and flipped them to positives in photoshop. They were very decent quality; if you've ever tried to 'scan' a transparency with a digital camera, you'll know that it is very hit and miss. I didn't perform any post processing on the image such as dust removal or the like. My ex still has the negatives (but now lives in a different city), but I'm trying to get her to release them to me again so I can make some prints to frame in my apartment. In spite of the subject matter, I find them sort of charming ;)