I seem to attract old and lost negatives and photographs that gather together in the nooks and crannies of my room, in search of company, in search of someone to love them. And love them I do: however old, however prosaic they may be. Give me an old negative of a man lighting his pipe against the backdrop of an over-stuffed coat rail, and I am a happy man. Just like the happy man in this photograph: at one with his pipe; at peace with the world.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No Sharp Shooter
The ability to bring things into sharp focus is often seen as a positive attribute, but sharpness can imply certainty, and few things are ...
-
Y ou can spend too long sat inside reading old newspapers and cataloguing old postcards. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he s...
-
A few weeks ago I was approached by the people running a website devoted to Halifax, my home town in West Yorkshire, to write a short serie...

In color, this would make a great jigsaw puzzle - all that stuff.
ReplyDelete