Yourself as a child - please contribute.

[Rob MacKillop]

The Dawn of Bucket Head! Nice one.

 

[Beth Carter]

The Dawn of Bucket Head! Nice one.

i might have predated buckethead by 2ish years. this was probably 1986. i know that's my brother in the background, but i have no idea where this was taken. that's not home and i can't place it at any of the usual relatives.

 

[Paul Taylor]

These are the only childhood pics I have of myself, and/or that may exist. The only reason I have these is because an aunt (in the blue shirt) kept these. At this point, my "parents' probably burned any others that might exist lol!

I grew up in a very rural part of western Kentucky, about 8 miles from the nearest town (town had a population of about 3k people.)

The funny thing is, between the years 2006-2019 I worked at various Hot-Rod / Custom / Race shops and frequently was featured in a variety of magazines for cars I was involved with, built, or articles showing tech/how-to content. Pics of me doing that stuff probably outnumber childhood/personal pictures 1000 to 1.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

They might be your only ones, Paul, but they are cracking shots. Great poses, colours, and bokeh!

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

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Here I am, aged five perhaps? Yes, three sisters, all wearing clothes made by my mother, who also made her own dress, and also knitted all the knitwear you see. Presumably, my father is taking the picture. I remember him having a camera like a Rollei, which we all took turns in looking down at the upside-down views. I actually remember those socks, which were in different shades of blue. Those who have observed my crazy hair these days, can here see that it was my mother who passed on those genes to me! Good to see me so happy! Not sure my mother is so happy. Things were about to unravel between my parents over the coming years, so it is easy for me to imagine that had already started, but perhaps not. I'd like to think there was a time when we were all happy together...

Who's next?

I am sorry I cannot contribute, Rob. It's a lovely series and important. I was never that young and no one took an interest in any photography as I understand. The only one I can recall is me lying on a sheepskin, very young, at a professional photographer.

 

[Tony Warren]

What an interesting thread. Gianluca, your Manet is quite beautiful and the other image are fascnating, not just through personal interest. My contribution is of myself with my paternal grandfather who had trained as a chauffeur at the Napier works before WWI and had been involved with vehicles and the steam engine powering the local woolen mill all his life. I idolised him as you may imagine. He was also a keen amateur photographer so I may have him to thank for that gene.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

me lying on a sheepskin, very young, at a professional photographer.

I bet your cheeks were rosy

 

[Bill Watts]

A picture from a Kodachrome slide taken by my Dad with probably a Retina C.
Me on the Torpoint chain Ferry on holiday in Seaton age 4! Note the Clarks sandals!
Dad normally used print film but for some reason he had a couple of rolls of slide film around this time.
Scanned with a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV and Vuescan Pro, Adjustments in Affinity Photo
Kodachromes stand up to ageing very well.
In the words of simon and Garfunkel, "Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away"

 

[Bill Watts]

Another one of me aged about 10, I really was a choirboy! A professional portrait commissioned by my Mum.



Photo taken in Ken Gilberson's photo studio at 13 High St, Kingswood, Bristol,

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Bill, I also was a choir boy and altar boy, and also had Clark’s sandals!

 

[Bill Watts]

Bill, I also was a choir boy and altar boy, and also had Clark’s sandals!

Rob, I think those things went with our generation! C of E High Church, didn't have altar boys in that outfit, however services were partly in Latin. Also made a fair amount of money (in a child's terms) attending weddings. usually had 2 or 3 every Saturday at half a crown each, paid quarterly!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Ha, I like your thinking, Bill: it’s a business! Mine was a Roman Catholic Church, which sewed the seed of my Born-Again Atheism. Seems another lifetime away. But seeing your photos has rekindled memories for me, so thanks for that.

 

[Bill Watts]

Ha, I like your thinking, Bill: it’s a business! Mine was a Roman Catholic Church, which sewed the seed of my Born-Again Atheism. Seems another lifetime away. But seeing your photos has rekindled memories for me, so thanks for that.

I joined the Merchant Navy as an Engineer Officer - made a career of it, however, being in the MN makes you extremely sceptical and being an engineer means that if you can't see it, touch it or detect it, it isn't there which kind of pushed me in the direction of Atheism too!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I hear you, brother!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I was never an altar boy, but when I was growing up I would see them on the (Catholic) altar in their uniform as if they were saying Mass like the priest. I thought they deserved that role because of their merits, maybe they were in the odor of holiness, and I envied them a little. “Would that career be for me?” - I wondered - “And what do I have to do to get to tread the altar floor?”
No, I was not born to wear a uniform.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It all sounded great in Latin, beautiful incantations. Then the 2nd Vatican Council made a fatal mistake, decreeing the Mass should be in the vernacular. Then we realised what utter rubbish we had been chanting for hundreds of years! We left in droves.

 

[Pete Askew]

I love that Kodachrome image, Bill. Your father was clearly a damn fine photographer.

I too had Clarks sandals just like those, but despite never being an alter-boy I still found a path to atheism: that happened at about the time I got the sandals in fact. I wonder...

 

[Bill Watts]

I love that Kodachrome image, Bill. Your father was clearly a damn fine photographer.

I too had Clarks sandals just like those, but despite never being an alter-boy I still found a path to atheism: that happened at about the time I got the sandals in fact. I wonder...

Jesus boots?

 

[Bill Watts]

And now for something different. I have made an attempt to colourise the black and white original. It is my first ever attempt so be gentle!

 

[Pete Askew]

That is pretty effective and if you hadn’t shown the original I would have assumed it to be an old colour print.