I found some old negatives the other day. They must be amongst the first pictures I took as a child with one of the original Diana cameras given to me by my parents.
This is a print of Concorde landing at RAF Fairford after a test flight in the very early 1970s. Goodness knows where I was standing - I bet I couldn't do that now.
I wish I'd still got the camera - it would have been worth at least five quid!
That's a good question! In general, I never really knew why I got the negatives back from processing - after all, I'd got a nice print, so as a child, negatives normally went in the bin (gasp). But I had an enlargement made of a crop of this negative, so I knew the negative was 'special' and so I still have it (and the other shots on the same roll) because it never got thrown away. Interestingly, the enlargement that was done at the time is now in tatters. But I never guessed as a child that I would print it myself, forty or so years later.
Very cool pictuire and story. Reminds me of when my dad gave me a Smena symbol in the early 70's. I can remember the first shot I took with it, a Sikorsky S-68 on an Army Air Corps airfield, I can't remember where though. Would love to find that film, though I think it's in my mum's cellar somewhere.