I thought i might post the most important photo I ever took with that old box camera. It is nothing fancy but it means the world to me. I had just put a roll of film in it and wanted to test the flash to be sure the batteries were okay. My grandfather, who lived with us was in the kitchen so I snapped this picture. He had lived with us all my life and I adored the man. Four days after I took this photo he passed away. I have other pictures of him but this is the way I remember him, dressed in his bib overalls.

I thought i might post the most important photo I ever took with that old box camera. It is nothing fancy but it means the world to me. I had just put a roll of film in it and wanted to test the flash to be sure the batteries were okay. My grandfather, who lived with us was in the kitchen so I snapped this picture. He had lived with us all my life and I adored the man. Four days after I took this photo he passed away. I have other pictures of him but this is the way I remember him, dressed in his bib overalls.

All my life I made "things" from other things. Took it apart used stuff for something else, etc.

One day while walking to school, (1st grade 1956 or 57 in Lexington Park, Maryland, (329 Midway Drive if I recall correctly)), I noticed a box camera being thrown away in a neighbor's trash can. Taking it out, I hid it where I could pick it up on the way home and did.

It was an old Kodak box camera that used 120 film and needed a little work to operate properly. After I took it apart, I fixed something in it and that was my begining.

This story was told to me by my mother a few years ago since I would never remember all that. I've still have the camera but as the years went by the lens got lost. (I still keep it just for the memories.)

If it weren't for my parents help, I would never have got into photography mainly because at 5 years old, film and processing was cost prohibitive.

A few locals bought some of my prints and eventually I saved up enough to purchase an old used Nikon F. (Don't have that one anymore. Nikon's didn't float too well back then. LoL)

Ahhhh yes.... memories!!!