Nonchalance Personified

That's a very relaxed dude.

From his outfit, a golfer perhaps, but cast adrift on a cruise liner???

He reminds me of this image

Pinched from Wiki

 

Bonus - Cyprus has a cat problem: One feline for every resident

A Focus Group of Photographers

 

I presume that that is the correct term for a gathering of snappers.

Looks like a day out for the East Finchley Retired Teachers Photography and Real Ale Club.

Bonus - Banana fight in Pennsylvania gas station leads to charges for employee

Bonus 2 - Live Breaking news 

 

Scenes from a Welsh Suburb - No 49

 

Again, the black border is merely me indicating that this is a Half-Frame slide.

Honestly, I have no evidence that this is in Wales, but the whole box of sl;ides have a feeling of Welsh-ness from the scenery and surroundings.  And it had a faint whiff of Caerphilly Cheese.

Bonus -  Willem Pennings' Balancing Cube.

"Beat Girl"

 

This slide from 1964 had a note on it "Me in Waterlow Park".

Not me, as in this blogger, obviously.

This girl certainly looks "beat", so I'm guessing she had a suitably fitting name - Flip or Kath, or Mizzy.

Nice.

Bonus - 

Group Photo Photo

 

It's been a while since the last one, so with Easter approach, let's delve back into the "School Trip To Ibiza, Easter 1973" set.

Heavens !  Fifty Years Ago !

Here, the hormonal teens have been corralled, to allow the chaperones to photograph the kids, making identification (or warning the locals) easier.

Bonus - Donald Trump performing ballet, and other Trumpfoolery. 

Photography - The Old Fashioned Way

 

Before iPhone's 99 Terapixel camera...

Before Sony Mavica digital cameras

Before Kodachrome

Before 35mm film format.

THIS is how photographs were taken. And No, that's not a pair of iPhones at the photographer's foot.

Bonus - Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years

The Search for the Perfect Photo

 

Yvgeny and Roger (with his camera) comb the back streets of Ybelstad for that "perfect" image.

Bonus 1 - Yes, twenty years ago

Bonus 2 - Genius Sorting

BONUS 3 - Late appropriate / inappropriate addition.

"This One Is For Granny"

 

OK, there's some hints that this could be a Christmas photo, but, dammit, it looks hotter than my summers.

Always a great cliche to have the kids dress up as cowboys and smile for granny.

Bonus - Michigan couple must pay son $30,441 for throwing out porn collection

Bonus 2 - 

And This ... This is the Bedroom

 

This might appear to be from the secret stash of a very obsessive stalker...

... but it isn't.

The box of slide shows a middle aged couple having a holiday break in northern part of Derbyshire in 1987. And the photographed almost everything they saw.

Very dull.

Bonus - 1001 Albums to listen to before you dye.

Maude - The Photographer Photographed.

 

Yes, it's the return of one our favourite models - Maude Jefferson.

Alas, you can't see her face, as she is...well ... I guess that some of the younger blog-readers might not recognise that pose.

Clearly, Maude is photographer her chums with a Box Brownie type of camera.

Bonus - This should have been yesterday's Bonus, but 80 Years since The Brocklesby Miracle

'pon My Soul .... It's a Redcat Hycam !

The Hycam, as you probably already know, was a High Speed 16mm Rotating Prism Camera.

And this isn't it's first appearance on this blog.

Bonus - Sex toy sales triple during New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown

Bonus 2 - US citizens in Lebanon decline repatriation offer, saying it's 'safer' in Beirut

The Photographer...Photographed

I find something satisfying about snapping the snapper.

Especially when the photographer herself is a blonde bombshell in double denim.

Hmm. I'll probably be criticized for sexism for that comment.

Bonus - What’s behind a phobia of holes?

Bonus 2 -

Today, We Honour The Photographer

Yesterday, I gave a small light-hearted chat about the delights of Slide Collecting, using some of the images from this site.

And everyone seemed to enjoy it. Woo.

So, today, I reckon we should celebrate the source of all the slides... The Photographer.   No, Freddy Driffield, shown on the left, is not the source of all of the slides on this blog, but he is representative of the brotherhood of photographers, who tirelessly documented normal life in the days before autofocus.

Nice camera mate.

Bonus -  Ghost crabs use teeth in stomachs to 'growl' at predators.

Bonus 2 - Pop quiz: which animal communicates by farting?

Elsie and Mavis - Rugby "Scouts"

Every training session of the Bosworth and Hinckly Rugby Club, Miss Elsie Turnbull and Miss Mavis Shephard are there, watching the muscular, sweaty, grunting young men in their tight tight shorts.  Always willing to offer an opinion to the coaches, and filming the men..."In case they become famous".   Letchy Ladies.

Bonus - For Nick & Andy...

Glacier View

Nice view.

Nice Photo.

Nice Blog-Post.

Bonus - Cooties

Bonus - Why Do Wombats Do Cube-Shaped Poo?

Vintage Toilet Selfie

Fact 3249 : The On-Toilet Selfie existed for decades before the rise of the on-phone digital camera.


Not a fact that you really need very often, but a fact anyway.

Bonus - Dumbass

Bonus 2 -

The Hiilwalker near Mount Doom

A striking landscape, and (artistically)some striking splashes of red. The landscape looks too bleak for the United Kingdom, but who knows?

Bonus :Ever heard of the Cleveland BalloonFest debacle?

Ready for your photo, Mrs Robinson?

Kids posed on the lawn
Mom spruced up, in full war paint
Kodak Roll-Film Camera at teh ready.

Ye, it's photo time.

Bonus - One for data-obsessives.
The Fallen of World War II

An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.

Boxing Day Wander

Best way to blow the Christmas Cobwebs away - A brisk, bracing walk.

Ending at The Dog, Duck and Dog Inn, for a swift one.

Bonus - Doggo Loves Cheese

The Camera Assistant

That, I suspect, is a Redlake Hycam high-speed 16mm cine camera.

And on left is Shirley from the typing pool, who was roped in for the photoshoot.

Bonus - The 'merican Idea of Fun
Bonus 2 - Idiot