Throw Back Thursdays Tbt

Throw back both in subject matter and year taken (scanned from slides -- probably 20+ years ago or more). Each Spring our local drive-in has a "Cruise Night" -- always fun to hang out and see the beautiful custom cars!

My dad had his photo albums stored in the basement. I had to take a decongestant after going through some of the albums. This lovely old album was one of them, and contains photos of some of my great aunts with their wedding photos around 1900, my uncle and a few other relatives I can't identify. They were (obviously) all professional studio photographs mounted on thick cardboard. The other photo is my mom, my grandmother, my two aunts and my uncle. All deceased.

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Family trip to Florida, stopping at "Gatorland" and, On one of our family hikes in Maryland.

A photo from 1987, first developed in my darkroom, around 10 years later I scanned the negative to my first computer, worked on it step by step, and here it is: one of my oldest.
(And still one of my favorites :)
Thanks for the thread, Marlene! Love to see these images made many years ago!



Edit: It is not "one of my oldest", but one of the first of my old photos I got digitalized and worked on it in my first computer.

I think I read your intro wrong, Marlene. My photo album photo is not 15 years old, but the album is.....sorry LOL. I'm senile, what can I say?

This one is about 19 years old. It's one I did in high school and is essentially the last piece of art I did up until last year.
I've been considering removing it from my portfolio as it just feels out of place with all my recent work. But I don't have much work to show, so there it sits...



Joe Burgess
J.B. Imagery

Thanks for everyone's contributions....Mary, no problem....I know all about these albums and was hoping you'd stop by!

1955


1959 - one of my first street photographs taken with some sort of Kodak Brownie camera and Kodak Verichrome Pan film.


me in Baja California - 1966/67/68/69/??


1978 - self promotional photo...

What a fun idea for a thread!! Here is my throwback. My oldest self portrait I did when I was in third grade, next to my newest self portrait. The first done in crayon the second in colored pencil.

I took this 30 years ago when I was working on field trials in the Fenlands in the East of England. It's the oldest photo I have on FAA at the moment.



- Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

Painted this for my mom's birthday about 20 years ago.

originally did the pencil version of this in highschool.. only recently coloured it.. the pencil version had a lot of negativity in it from my persecutions through highschool - the coloured version I managed to transmute a lot of that negative into positive






---Shawn Dall
ShawnDall.com

Photo I took 67 years ago when I was 13

It's friday. ;)
No more til NEXT TBT

Roger...good thing for Bernice Abbott you didn't pursue photography ;))

Me... about 62 years ago but recently colorized by... Me

Did I lose a day?

Nope Brian did.
Today is Wednesday.
TBT=throw back Thursday

Well, everyone else lost an entire month before my 1 day early post. ;)

Gene Gregory, the early years. ~ I think this was taken more than 15 years ago.

I remember when that portrait was taken Gene...it was 17 years ago....
Here's a painting, inspired by the Anasazi Indians of Arizona....circa early 90's

It's not Thursday yet, I know... Me and my crazy hair in '99

Cynthia, you were quite the foxy little babe !!! Not that you're not now..... and I'm not really a chauvinist old pig ! LOL



Brian........Thanks quite a lot.

Gene - I doubt if Cynthia was "quiet"... Foxy yes, quiet no.
I know you meant, "quite"... I've made that mistake a few times and most recently on a title I gave one of my images which was picked up by someone here on FAA. I was thankful they said something so I could correct it. The thing about this type of mistake is that neither word will be picked up by the spell checker. ;)

Gene... Shhhhh... let's keep quiet about it now.

Well thanks, guys! I don't know about foxy, but I have never been quiet! :)

Yes Cynthia......You are quite Foxy !!!!!! ....... Now I will quit, and be quiet. ;)

Here is TBT from 1998...

TBT to 1999 or 2000.

Here's a portrait of my older son, taken about 1982 or so:

Again, about 62 yrs ago, but I can still remember a few years where us really young kids wore these plastic shades with solid color frames.

Before they discovered I had flat feet about a year later and then could not wear anything other than corrective shoes. They had steel arches, were heavy and only came in one style... WINGTIPS!

Ahhhh... My life as a cowboy was destined to be short-lived. :/

A day on location, working with Howard Keel on "The Big Fisherman."



Chuck Staley Art

Read "Murder on the Six O'Clock News"

Read "Southern Planter"

1973 Polaroid was the basis for the image... Digital took over from there.



Very cool Chuck!

Thanks, Glenn.

I did this painting of my son Brad in 1989-90. At the age of three he was having a fashion meltdown. Last year this painting was featured on Huffington Post when they did an indepth interview with Brad on his Bcalla clothing line.

After spending years selling paintings that were only bought cuz they matched someone's furniture, I decided to buy a purple sofa to match this painting!
circa 2000. It was a very good year!

Annie the Merritt Island dragon back in 1998. She was destroyed by storms but the memory lives on, in no small part with the help of the few photos that are online. A new dragon is in the works.

That's amazing Brad!

Taken in Paris in 1998

Back in 1949 when I was a senior in high school, I was introduced to the Bohemian side of life by this young man.

He loved my photography and got me many jobs shooting interiors with natural light.

This picture is very special, for that night his younger sister crawled into bed with me and I became a man...



The next day, we drove to Muscle Shoals to put some mileage on his new car.

This portrait of Simone was painted in 1999. The previous year we were at the San Diego Zoo with friends. I have painted Simone several times of the years.

I made this is PS7.0 around 2003. I have NO effing clue what I did or how I did what I did to get it to look this way. There are a bunch more from that year as well that I can not for the life of me remember how I made them.

You guys know what to do on Thursdays!

One of my first paintings when I was around 11 years old.

My father was a maintenance foreman at a private school for boys. Generally the students were "well to do", and when they left for Summer vacation they would leave things at the school they didn't care to take back home with them. A few of the discarded items my father procured were some used oil and acrylic paints. These became my introduction into painting. I copied a painting from an old art instruction book...

Brian! I love this and the story behind it....a clear talent way back when! Thanks for sharing

I had just gotten back from Europe after serving my time in the army, and I got a job at WHBQ television in Memphis.

I wanted to try out my new Rolleiflex I bought at the PX just before I was discharged, and when I heard this new singing sensation was going to be on the Wink Martindale show, I brought it to work with me. That's when I met this guy.

Chuck, you make my Thursdays!

Yea, that's me on the right. '74 or '75. I have no idea why we had clown makeup on. Not creepy at all, right? ;)

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hhahaha Cynthia!

Will finally be able to post in this thread, as I will turn 15 tomorrow :) Get ready for some newborn pics, hehe!

Will finally be able to post in this thread, as I will turn 15 tomorrow :) Get ready for some newborn pics, hehe!

cant wait to see what you were photographing aged 0 Parker....

THURSDAY postings, guys.....
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