Dad

[knj]

Buried Dad today. Spent the last couple days looking through little boxes of kodachromes from the late fifties through the seventies. A priceless gift from a great guy who I will miss. His life is now memories and what a tool photography serves to preserve those memories and pass them on.

 

[frank]

Condolences.

I know one of the reasons I take so many pics of my father.

 

[SchwinnParamount]

I feel for you brother. I lost my mother-in-law (*Total* second mother to me) this summer. It'll get better. Cherish your memories of your dad.

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

I'm sorry, knj. Times like this are very hard. I remember when I lost my dad... then my mom. It's never easy. Stay strong.

 

[HiHoSilver]

With a good father, its always way too soon. May the good memories be a comfort from here on.

 

[Bill Burk]

Sorry to hear that knj, all the best

 

[Sirius Glass]

The photos will help keeping those memories and people alive. Best wishes.

 

[mgb74]

Condolences. But as Sirius Glass said, those photographs keep the memories alive.

 

[Sirius Glass]

That is why film exists. It is archival.

 

[alanrockwood]

I feel for you.

I lost both of my parents within the last 4 1/2 years, and I will miss them until the day I die.

 

[railwayman3]

I, too, feel for you, my wife and I both lost our parents a few years ago and still miss them.....my Mum was the last of the four to go and I remember my wife saying "Well, this makes us little orphans, we have to look after ourselves now".

My Dad was a keen photographer, so no shortage of photos to keep, but the most precious ones are from the time he first met my Mum, just after the War. Times were hard for them then, so their first annual holidays away consisted of a long weekend at the seaside, and, together with the post-war shortages of photographic materials, one roll of 8-on-120 in his Kodak folder was a precious resource to last the whole vacation.

 

[bsdunek]

Prayers for you and your family. All the parents in my family are now gone, but will never be forgotten. Both my Father and my Father-in-Law were avid photographers, so we have many memories captured.

 

[trythis]

Sorry for your loss, i know it must have been difficult just posting that right now.


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[ParkerSmithPhoto]

His life is now memories and what a tool photography serves to preserve those memories and pass them on.

More and more I think that, for all of our aspirations to artistry, the simple act of recording a memory of time and space for future generations is the true magic of photography, available to anyone.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I am sad , remembered my parents. My mother , when she becomes older , hated photography. I never been able to photograph her face , may be she was right , only remained 40 years old kodachromes , they are both handsom and beatiful and most importantly happy. My mother was not happy for last 20 years and sometimes burst. My sister is 34 years old and that was too early for her. For last 7 months , she went in to bureaucracy with a great fight to make me pensioned. She succeeded last week. Thanks to internet , I will see her every night on that screen. I wish her a happy , very long , successful and rich life.

and too all my friends and everyone

 

[rowghani]

Awesome pics. I'm sorry for your loss man. Going to be real difficult when it happens to me as well.

 

[Trail Images]

Sorry to hear this update. It can be very hard as I know first hand.

Just by chance I spent the morning making a side by side of two images of my father posing for a cover on the old Argosy magazine. It was back in Sept. 1953 when he was a very young adult and I was just a kid. He passed away a few years back now. It was just a small tribute by me to a wonderful father.

 

[Sean Mac]

Sorry for your loss.

It is something I have yet to face.

The last three shots I took were of my father with his newest grandson on his knee.

He will be 75 next year and the grandson arrived in september.

Few things evoke our memories like a photograph.

Take care...