My mother took photographs with a Brownie box camera.......lots of photographs. Throughout my childhood, she caught on film moments of my family's life; pictures I treasure. She instilled in me a sense of needfulness to capture the present, preserved for ever for whomever cared to look, and I took ownership of this task with such vigor that our bookshelves are heaving under the weight of photograph albums! At some point, the digital age dawned around me, but I was reluctant to retire my 35mm. I had several over the years and loved the rush of contentment on setting-up each...more
