I found it!

As some of you know I’ve spent my evenings these last few weeks scanning box after box of photographs from my mom’s house, photographs of our family history going back at least a hundred years. Tonight, while going through a stack of miscellaneous pictures, mostly of one of my parents’ trips to visit friends and family in Australia, I came a cross a small stack that looked all too familiar, pictures I’d taken decades ago while driving my dad around and using his Canon TLb 35mm camera, the SLR I learned on, the one my sister recently found hiding in the bottom of a closet for nearly thirty years, the one that’s currently in for a CLA (Clean-Lubricate-Adjust). This picture in particular caught my eye. I submitted it to a local photography contest, won, and was featured on the local news. It’s not the most marvelous picture but folks, I was only 14 (something I do recall as that’s when I was able to drive on a special learners permit), it probably was the first roll I ever shot on an SLR, and to be fair, this was back in the days of film where one couldn’t take a hundred shots and there was no photo editing software. Composition was good, the subject matter is interesting, and I like the lens flares (something I continue to allow to sneak into my photography). Not too bad for my first roll on a ‘big boy’ camera, eh?