My Grandfather with Bandaid 1973 #72120211

            An Illinois farm boy who ran off to join the US Navy in 1919, at 19. He retired once (after 20 years) and they brought him back and assigned him the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, stationed at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941.  
He only had a high school education, and when I asked him how he decided to join the navy, having grown up in the Midwest, he said "I wanted to get as far away from that farm as possible!"  
He finally retired in 1949 with the rank of LCDR.
After enjoying a few years of retirement; in 1956 he took me in and became my father.
As I became addicted to making photographs in college, my grandfather was also my best model, or at least, my most patient one.  This photograph was made with my Rollei in 1973 when I had come back to San Diego during a summer break.
   

Taken on: January 1, 2019

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LCDR James G. Sharp

USN

Rolleiflex

TLR

3.5 Automat

K4A

Manufactured in 1953

Twin-lens

Rollei

120mm

Film

120 Film

black and white

blanc et noir

schwarze auf weiß

blanco y negro

blanc i negre

Siyah re Beyaz

jim hair photo « less

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