This year my lovely Mum & Dad will be celebrating 50 years of marriage! I’m so proud of them and proud to have them as my parents. We’ve had bumpy ride along the way (when I was a ‘wild’ teenager!), but they’ve never stopped loving and supporting me, which means everything to me. They’re great friends now and I adore our relationship so much.
Together with my brothers, we decided to give them an album celebrating their journey together over the past fifty years, something that has turned in to a real labour of love really. And after many months of sourcing photos, scanning them and restoring them, and even transferring old 35mm slides into digital images from the late fifties/early sixties, the layouts are all complete and have been sent to print. I’m so excited and can’t wait to see the finished book.
My Dad has been a keen amateur photographer since I can remember and was a massive help to me once I decided to peruse photography as my own career. The early images he captured of himself and my mother when they were young are so beautiful. They look so happy and very much in love, gorgeous. It’s been lovely to see them as ‘two people’ rather than ‘my parents’. Taken on his Iloca 35mm camera, the images have aged beautifully and have gorgeous, natural colours and tones that have appeared over the decades, something that you only get with old film. He used to (and still does!) take great delight in setting up the camera on the timer and running back into shot, sometimes not always making it. This gave us great amusement as young kids watching him dart back and forth!
Here’s a glimpse at some of my favourite pages from their album, which is being especially made by the amazing Folio Albums in the UK.
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