Part one of this article looked at how, after very humble beginnings, NASA realised the potential photography could bring to the Space Program – how the cameras used in space we...
I had a rather significant birthday this year (!) and my family bought me a rather unusual present – a reel of 70mm colour transparencies from the July 1966 Gemini X space missi...
Like many great tales from New Jersey, our story begins at a bagel shop. On a fall morning in Morristown, while standing in line for a breakfast sandwich, I noticed a beautiful ...
11 May, 2024
Recreating Historic Images
Back in 2016 a group of tourism professionals, historians, marketing pros and the US National Park Service began to work towards creating a U.S. Civil Rights Trail with the goal...
I was recently scanning some very old family photos to preserve them, as the negatives were not in the best of condition, and I found myself enjoying looking at the folders they...
24 March, 2024
Historical Records in Family Photographs
I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy Lund, m...
6 December, 2023
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
People of a certain age will recognize this as a quotation – possibly a misquotation – from one of Joni Mitchell’s songs that was probably popular around the time I ...
27 February, 2022
Saving Glass Plates From WW1 – By Michell Boysen
Living in a small town in the countryside has its pros and cons.
One of the pros (or cons) being that if you work in an area outside of the ordinary,
most people know about it...