Musings on the byways of popular culture
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This is the view from my desk this morning. I invite you to share via the magic of Flickr, a scene you encounter today or this week or later, that illustrates the wonder of your surroundings. There is beauty everywhere!
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A strange thing happened this week I logged on to book swimming at my local pool and staring out at me on the page was a photograph of an ex girlfriend holding a yoga mat. I messaged her to say it was an unexpected surprise, we’re still on good terms it was some 40 years ago. Then I remembered in 2018 at Heathrow Airport there was a large poster for Portrait of Britain and who should be on it but her. She’s since put both photos up on her Facebook page.
In 2021 on the Leonard Cohen Facebook page there was a link to an article on thebritishacademy.ac. uk website from 2016 following the death of LC. The photograph accompanying the article was the opening of LC’s artwork in Manchester and to my surprise there I am. See photo. I know I’ve put a photo from the 1974 Windsor Free Festival which I came across while browsing on the Internet looking for information about it, and finding myself on it.
One year after the death of Jo Cox the Great Get Together was started on the Green in Heckmondwike I seem to recall a photograph appeared on the Afterword » Continue Reading.
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I didn’t want to hijack Carolina’s thread but she mentioned annotating old photographs. Downsizing at home I came across several photographic slides from the sixties and the seventies. I couldn’t look at fhem properly but hope to get them transferred to digital. What they did do was make me think back to those times. The ones I were delighted to see were from 50 (gulp) years ago when I’d just returned from Morocco and had met some friends on my return where we travelled to the Dales for a holiday of meeting girls and drinking. I met up with one of them last month our walking sticks clashed. Then today a friend sent me this photo I’d taken for a local folk singer, Bill Price,(I was a photography student at the time) for his poster. As I don’t remember my mother or her family (it’s complicated) there are people in my parents’ wedding photo I have no knowledge of. Carolina’s annotating of photographs is an excellent idea. I appreciate people find it difficult to add photographs to the forum, but those silver halide shots and colour slides certainly bring back memories of times past.
