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Although I can't claim the credit for this photo, I thought it would be of interest to all photographers of today who may not realise what had to be lugged around in the old days.
My brother recently sent me this photo that he'd found in an old book.
It shows my father, Ray Brice outside the offices of the Kettering Evening Telegraph in Dryland Street sometime in the early 1960's.
He used to carry around the bulky half-plate camera, flashgun and HUGE flashbulbs as well as a Rolleiflex and sometimes a Hasselblad camera and tripod etc.
Later on, he also carried various make of 35mm cameras to take slides of the countryside and architechture.
I can remember being taken round the Evening Telegraph works as a boy, seeing the hot metal going into the Linotype machines and the plates being made to fit the printing cylinders ans spent a lot of time in the darkroom and processing room watching my dad work.
He also used to own a stereo camera and a panoramic camera and myself and my brothers used to enjoy playing with these - I wish I had these today!
He had a darkroom under the stairs at home and that is where we learned to develop and print our own films.
Sadly. my dad passed away in 2002 just days away from his 90th birthday in 2007 and he was a gadget freak and would haved loved to see how far photography has come with the advent of digital cameras and computers.
(Hope I haven't bored you.
Back to normal(?) tomorrow.
Ry
| Title: | The Photographer |
| Username: | 
RobRi |
| Uploaded: | 22 Oct 2009 - 11:26 PM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Photo journalism |
| Votes: | 18 |
 | Variant - Tests |
Comments
Bored? Goodness me, no - thanks for the fascinating info.
It is horrid to lose one's father (I know) but an excellent innings - sounds like a fascinating job, too.
Your Star-Trek style tribute made me think of Einstein - not a bad appearance-change: from rakish chap to venerable seer in one lifetime.
Most fascinating, thank you.
Appreciated - have a vote.
Kapulco.
Beautiful images, and a lovely tribute !
My dad died in 1990, and I often wonder what he would think of how things have progressed - he would be amazed I'm sure.
Chris
A really wonderful story, thank you for sharing this and your father's wonderful photograph. I think V2 is just superb, and lovely, moving tribute.
Carol
Great interest from me, too, as my dad was a press photographer in those days. As he died in 1974 the most modern camera he knew was the Nikon F.......
Bill
Just looked at your picture of your Dad and read about your early days. How lovely to find a "local" on the site.
I grew up in Finedon and until my Dad died in 2008 regularly made the journey from Birmingham to Thrapston to visit him
A super shot even if you cannot claim to have taken it yourself
Regards
Helen
We all carried loads like this in the sixtiies, ( I did miss the plate cameras by a whisker} newspapers and photography have moved on some since then but the press photographer carries even more now. I did it all my working life and the bag just got heavier, two and three cameras several lenses, couple of flashes and more batteries than you would imagine.
Of course the occasional wag in the photographers room would stick a phone book in the bottom of your bag which you would carry round for a few days before you noticed.
Dougie
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