Stereoview Paul
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2022
- Messages
- 8
- Reaction score
- 12
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos OK to edit
Hi All,
As a newbie photographer and historian, I thought I may trigger a bit of discussion!
Photographers frequently spend hours getting that perfect shot of wildlife, a fox perhaps. Or maybe that excellent rhododendron bush, or a glorious sunset.
Whilst the results are personal achievements, I can go on-line and find lots of foxes and sunsets et al. But wearing my local historian hat, there are so many things that are just not being photographed, in the time of Frances Frith the routine and ordinary such as the world of work and children playing were regular subjects.
Some examples. I cannot find typical office views from the 1980's from my local area; everyone remembers a typing pool with an array of chunky green or amber screed word processors but nobody thought to take a photo. We now have wheelybins, but before that we had black sacks, no images of a line of black sacks and more sadly not a single view of the dustmen riding on the back of their cart or throwing them into the crusher.
So a plea from me, for all future historians, please carry on taking landscapes and foxes but perhaps take a picture of the cars in the car park as well when leaving, or that filling station, the garage where you had new tyres fitted, and the pub you stopped at for lunch which may easily close in the future. Thank you
Cheers Paul
As a newbie photographer and historian, I thought I may trigger a bit of discussion!
Photographers frequently spend hours getting that perfect shot of wildlife, a fox perhaps. Or maybe that excellent rhododendron bush, or a glorious sunset.
Whilst the results are personal achievements, I can go on-line and find lots of foxes and sunsets et al. But wearing my local historian hat, there are so many things that are just not being photographed, in the time of Frances Frith the routine and ordinary such as the world of work and children playing were regular subjects.
Some examples. I cannot find typical office views from the 1980's from my local area; everyone remembers a typing pool with an array of chunky green or amber screed word processors but nobody thought to take a photo. We now have wheelybins, but before that we had black sacks, no images of a line of black sacks and more sadly not a single view of the dustmen riding on the back of their cart or throwing them into the crusher.
So a plea from me, for all future historians, please carry on taking landscapes and foxes but perhaps take a picture of the cars in the car park as well when leaving, or that filling station, the garage where you had new tyres fitted, and the pub you stopped at for lunch which may easily close in the future. Thank you
Cheers Paul