Do you like antique black and white pictures?
By peanutjar
@peanutjar (5198)
Canada
September 10, 2007 2:51pm CST
What kind is your favorite?Weddings,portraits of 1 person,children.Do you have alot and show them off by putting them in a design on your wall?I love to collect them and have quite a few throughout my home on the walls in old picture frames that i find at sales.They are mostly ones that i buy from dealers.This one i found very cute and only paid $5.00 can.for.The little children are so cute in their now antique clothes.:)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
11 Sep 07
I'm still a film user photographer, and my specialty is black and white photography as I can develop my own film and prints...I think I like to think of myself following in the tradition of late photographer Ansel Adams...did you know just one of his photos is worth over $50,000??? Yeesh!
I have a vast array of my own black and white prints that I've done over the years and are hanging up all over the place.
As for a collection of older photos...I have several old glass and tin type photographs of my distant ancestors...perhaps my great-great grandparents time...the clothing worn looks like something right out of the Civil War period...the amazing thing, is that is proves black and white photography is so much more stable than color, as those photos look the same and are in perfect condition as the day they were done...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
11 Sep 07
PS--you just gave me a great idea!! I'm going to be off-line for awhile while I scan those old photos!!!!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Okay--back now...hehe...I only scanned a few photos...thought you'd get a kick out of this one... Who the heck it is I have no idea...Unfortunately, when I would ask my grandmother or mother who the pictures of they hadn't a clue....this might be my grandmother's brother, Eddie dressed up in a costume and taken around 1906????
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@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
11 Sep 07
You have alot of interests!I saw a tin one at the antique store,i almost bought it but got this one instead.I also saw some with light pink,blue and green colors in it.I do alot of pictures of my daughter in antique finish with my digital camera and picture machine.I like those over the ones nowadays.I just love the picture that you put!Its sooo cute!All dressed up and little shoes with pullups.I dont know what their called exactly.Thankyou so much for sharing a photo!:):):)
@applecartronnie (1984)
• India
11 Sep 07
wow, this is really impressive. i love antique pictures and stuff, it's so nostalgic and also amazingly peaceful i feel, just seeing the uncrowded roads of years gone by or a few people posing for a pic long ago, thoughts like "what was on their mind then"? what could be happening around them? etc etc come to the mind. it's all very amazing.
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@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
11 Sep 07
i know,i just love them.Wouldnt you like to live back in that erra?I would,no goverments etc.Horse carriages,buggys and such.:)
