by thadmin | Feb 3, 2012 | Comic, Heh, Historical
I am planning on scanning in a large series of comic books my father bound into a now ricketty old book when he was a child. The first comic in the collection is now scanned and ready for download as a PDF. You can get it here. Its pretty low in resolution to keep the...
by thadmin | Oct 28, 2011 | Beauty, Historical, love, Sad
In late December 1960, my parents were married in Montreal, PQ. My future mother and father were then 28 and 27 years old. So young! I was 37 when I married Carrie… Yet, my future parents in these photographs look older than I felt when I was married, older even...
by thadmin | Jun 17, 2011 | Historical, Joy
I was scanning a few choice images out of some children’s books today and came across an old favourite I loved as a child: The Story of Ferdinand. I remember loving the illustrations and today I was amazed all over again pouring through the old copy we...
by thadmin | Jun 6, 2011 | Historical
Polaroid Type 55 – near Rushouse, Alberta ca. 1999 Nana meets Owen for the first time – August 14, 2001 Owen’s first Christmas (Day), Kingston (2001) My uncle David, at #32 (2001) Carrie and I...
by thadmin | May 23, 2011 | Historical, Tech
In 2003, I was invited to travel to Ottawa a second time to review press tests for a series of posters Alex Taylor of Endurance Designs was producing of images taken during Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914. I had prepped the...
by thadmin | May 12, 2011 | Historical
I’ve chosen a handful of images for today’s post from a vast quantity of BW (and some colour) prints given to me to curate from my mother’s side of the family. There are so, so many wonderful images in the collection that I thought it might be fun to...
