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Post by John Farrell on Mar 13, 2011 1:02:10 GMT -5
my store of monochrome negatives - a few from 1969-73; but most from 2000 on, when I took up monochrome photography again. For the technically minded - I used a Canoscan 8800F. Here are a few pictures: Early 1970s  Motat museum in Auckland  Helensville Post Office  |
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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 13, 2011 1:09:50 GMT -5
John, really nice shots. I'm gonna load up a camera and shoot some B&W! Roy
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 13, 2011 1:53:18 GMT -5
The latest film I developed today had some frames with a line down one side - so it looks like I'll have to open up the camera, a Canon FT and fix a tapering shutter.
Well - the shutters fixed. I wound up the tension on the first curtain.
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Post by daveh on Mar 13, 2011 5:15:39 GMT -5
John, the top photo reminds me of a cartoon from the late 60s/early 70s titled the seven ages of man. It was a series of seven cartoons showing head hair getting, then moustache and beard, and then, as head hair starts thinning, the chest hair gets thicker. In the last he is completely bald on top. Two of the blokes in you photo are the dead spit of two I knew in the early 70s. The Hurricane: I looked it up. It is a replica of that flown by Keith Park in the period if the Battle Of Britain. He later became Air Chief Marshal. Park was a Kiwi. The Helensville building is the (now, at least) Old Post Office. It's wonderful just what one can find on the internet - a nice little website for the town at www.helensville.co.nz/general/history.htmJohn, thanks for those photos. Dave. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2011 13:08:39 GMT -5
John:
Is that you in the middle near the top staring at the camera? The eyes look familiar.
Wayne
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 13, 2011 14:12:19 GMT -5
I'm the one behind the girl on the right.
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Post by photax on Mar 13, 2011 14:29:29 GMT -5
Hi John, I also like the first picture, a lot of cheerful people  MIK |
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Post by herron on Mar 13, 2011 18:17:11 GMT -5
I'm the one behind the girl on the right. LOL! ;D You and I must have had the same barber in those days, although my hair was more like your friend with the headband! I also had the beard.  |
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Mar 13, 2011 20:46:59 GMT -5
John, was the first photo taken in some lurid scarfie squat?
translation for everyone else: Scarfie is a student at Otago University in John's home town of Dunedin.
I'm half a generation later, but my older cousins all had the hair going on.
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 14, 2011 1:27:52 GMT -5
It was a student flat, yes. Not all of us were students, though. The place had an interesting history - the landlord told me that a local taxi driver used to drop men off there...........A few years after I moved out, the house - a big old 2 storied Dunedin terrace - was bought by a developer and gentrified.  This is what it looked like 40 years ago. The place is now "studio apartments". |
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Mar 14, 2011 13:03:03 GMT -5
'Interesting' is a good euphemism for that history.
But far nicer than the most notorious flats.
Michael.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2011 14:08:19 GMT -5
I thought I recognized your eyes. I wish I still looked as young as my eyes.
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