If you are interested in older photographs....

[pilbeam_mp62]

I hope this post is OK in the forum..

In this age of mainly digital photography, I wonder whether you might be interested to see a selection of images taken on film, approximately 50-70 years ago.

My grandfather was a well-known amateur photographer in the 1935-1963 period, and I have inherited literally thousands of his negatives, transparencies and exhibition prints, which I am slowly trying to archive.

In the meantime I have put together a website with a small selection of his work (which I have scanned where neccessary) and it can be found at www.sdjouhar.com

Regards
Kelvin

[Nick M]

Finally got round to making some time to look at those photographs, and I'm glad I did.

Fascinating insight into your grandfather's photography, and I especially liked his self-portraits.

Some of the images are, frankly, stunning. You must be, rightly, very proud of him.

At the risk of some lessons in egg-sucking, do make sure the photographs and negatives are properly archived and protected - they're very much something which needs to be looked after for the future.

Thanks so much for sharing them with is

[Disco_Biscuit]

Amazing story

[Vipers]

What did you use to scan them, neg copier or printer/copier? Still to browse the prints by the way.

[Andy M]

Loved looking through those photos. Thanks for sharing!

[Nolar Dog]

The India and surreal self-portraits are great, thanks for sharing.

[pilbeam_mp62]

Nick M said:

Finally got round to making some time to look at those photographs, and I'm glad I did.

Fascinating insight into your grandfather's photography, and I especially liked his self-portraits.

Some of the images are, frankly, stunning. You must be, rightly, very proud of him.

At the risk of some lessons in egg-sucking, do make sure the photographs and negatives are properly archived and protected - they're very much something which needs to be looked after for the future.

Thanks so much for sharing them with is

Thanks for your kind comments.

Yes - I have been cleaning them, where neccessary, with the proper fluid, and storing them in archival quality storage pages (Kenro)

Regards

[pilbeam_mp62]

Vipers said:

What did you use to scan them, neg copier or printer/copier? Still to browse the prints by the way.

The negatives (many of them Medium-format) have been scanned on an Epson V700 scanner, which is a reasonable piece of kit.

The slides have been scanned on a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 - again a decent piece of kit.

The exhibition prints are too big for me to to scan, but the ones that I have shown on the website are all ones where my grandfather made "test-prints" - usually 8x10 or similar, so I was able to scan those - of course the quality on the website is much lower than it could be.

Regards

[dcw@pr]

some great stuff there

[LongQ]

I really enjoyed browsing the galleries.

Fascinating work from someone who evidently had something special about him.

Many thanks for sharing.

[pilbeam_mp62]

Thanks very much to all for the kind words.

Regards
Kelvin