Counting down to the holidays
It's now 18 days until Donna and I head off to Vietnam.
As part of the trip we've booked an overnight cruise on the MS Emeraude on Halong Bay. to get an idea of what we're looking forward to have a look at Brent and Larry's blog and follow the link to their pictures on Flickr.
It's funny the way things have changed now with holidays. When I was a kid you'd go away on holidays and your parents would maybe take a camera. If it was somewhere special they'd use slide film. Once you got back home they'd put the film in those little yellow envelopes and send it off to get it processed and you'd probably get it back about two weeks later. While you were on the actual holiday, Mum would probably be writing postcards to everyone. And this was just a holiday to Clacton or Walton-on-the-Naze, from Hertfordshire.
Fast forward about ten years and you'd most likely be using print film, which you could take to the chemist and go and pick up the prints about a week later. You'd still be sending postcards though.
Another ten years and you'd drop the films off at a one hour place close to work during morning tea and pick the photos up at lunch time, but you still might be sending postcards.
At the moment, my brother Laurie, his wife Jessica, and the kids Chelsea and Alicia, are in Taiwan, where Jessica comes from. We get regular e-mails from them and Laurie's posted a few pictures on Google Web Albums.
My oldest stepdaughter Jessica (popular name in this family) and her fiancee Brett are doing a bit of a road trip in New South Wales at the moment. They spent new years eve at Thredbo. They're keeping us updated via e-mail and SMS and uploading pictures to Brett's Flickr account.
I'll hopefully be updating this blog while we're away and posting a few pics for you.
I'd hate to be in the postcard business these days.
2 comments:
Interesting bit of photo history Steve. Being older I remember when pics were black and white and taken with a box brownie camera. I wonder if you are familiar with these? The pics turned out OK too considering the early technology. I still have many of these photos.
We have a Box Brownie in the cupboard somewhere, unfortunately, it takes 620 film that is very hard to get these days. It's the same as 120, which I have heaps of, but the spools are different.
I'll be shooting some 35mm black and white while we're in Vietnam and processing it myself when we get back. It'd be nice to be able to take the Toyo view camera, but it's a bit too big and heavy, and the black cloth over the head tends to draw attention.
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