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Some Recent Photos

Here are some photos from the summer time in 2022:

My Photo Essay

Article a BmoreArt.com

 

Here's an article about my photography project I'm doing here in Bmore. One of the more satisfying pieces of work (not really work) that I've ever done. I will have to post my feelings and progress on this but you can read in this article what I'm doing.

Some Early Photos

Not sure with what camera these photos were taken but it wasn't my father's Leica though he took most of these in the mid-late 60's. There is one here of my dad which I'm wondering if I may have taken it as there is a photo, taken a year or two later of my father reading a paper on the very sofa that he sits in this photo below. Anyway the one good thing about these photos is that a year and month when they were developed is printed on the side. Several are from Argentina with my grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousins. Fewer and fewer people are alive that knew these characters. One day it will be the same with me.

Vallejo Nocturno 2022- Family Photos from the 60's

Shots from Before

Some photography from the 70's:

Vallejo Nocturno 2020-From Elis' Scans of my Footos

Images from My Family's Archive

My daughter over the last 10 years, maybe even further back, has started digitizing the vast pile of images that I have accumulated both from my own photo-taking to the photos my father and his older brother, Roberto, took. Then when my mom passed away in 2011 she left me several boxes of photographs that we sat around one day and reviewed (a small portion) on her bed during the last couple of years. My daughter has put a massive amount of slides on Flickr and I went and downloaded several images that caught my attention. Here they are for the late 50's and early 60's.

Vallejo Nocturno 2020- Argentina and Peru, fotos taken by my father and his brother.

Feliz Cumpleanos, Meche

Some images of Meche.

Vallejo Nocturno 2020-Atraves de los anos

Today is Puff's Birthday!

Vallejo Nocturno 2020- Puff in Profile

4th of July

Spent at East Baltimore Rooftop-scenes.

Vallejo Nocturno 2020- 4th of July in East Baltimore

10 Years Ago

Rafael, my father-in-law, passed away 10 years ago in San Juan at 90 years of age. An admirable man and great companion it was a surprise to some of us as he had appeared to be in good health. These are some photographs from his wake.

From 2012 in Lima

Vallejo Nocturno 2020-Tia Pepa in her Garden

Vallejo Nocturno 2012-Tia Margarita and my brother and I

Vallejo Nocturno 2012- Darsi at Tia Pepa's Garden

Vallejo Nocturno 2020- Sunset from La rosa Nautica in Miraflores in the Pacific

My mother had passed away several months before and we were returning to Lima to see what we needed to do with her apartment. It was in mid-summer and though we were happy to be with our family we were now more acutely aware of the passage of time. Strangely but maybe on purpose I had not seen these fotos which we took on that trip down until a week ago, almost 8 years had passed. People have been born and others have passed away. Some have gotten married others separated.