Sorting through a lot of our family photos in the hopes of finding my dad's photos he has taken when he was younger.
He was so into photography in his younger days as I am today. I always knew that, but never really cared to look through his photos when I was younger. Now that I am a lot older and that my love for photography has grown since, I thought of looking through them to see his style... surprisingly, nearly 50 years apart, we have the same interests of subjects/genres.
And that brought a big smile to my face to see how creative he was with his self portraits as I am now (or I think I am); his love for candid photos like me (since I feel that a candid smile is the most sincere of all); his love for street photography and photographing vendors in particular; his love of taking photos of his Hi-Fi system as I am into photographing my PC; his unique look at random objects and scapes, is nearly the same as I do. All those similarities really showed me that I got my creativity from him without even knowing.
Hope to scan all of his photos he has taken from his bachelor days in the Air Force, to when he met my mom, when my eldest sister was born, my second sister was born, and when I was born. It is interesting to see that he took a lot of photos of random things or scapes, self portraits, his friends, street photography, etc, then suddenly taking more photos of my mom, my sisters, then me, as his life progressed to being a family man. It is interesting because I am a bachelor right now taking photos like he did when he was a bachelor. I want to see if in the off chance I get married, if I will also shift my interest to more family photos then.
Either way, like father, like son, as the say. And I love it!
During the 70s, my dad can't recall if he owned a Canon AV-1, Canon AE-1, or a Nikon FE as his SLR (which he later sold when he was stationed in Japan to upgrade). During the 80s to 90s, he started mainly using his Canon AE-1 Program (the said upgrade), thus, I can't give much for his shooting information in terms of what camera he used.
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Sadly, you are NOT allowed to use any of the photos taken by my dad.
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