Dad at 86

My father died in 1999, just before his 88th birthday, and these two
pictures were taken a year and a half before. He sat outside in the
sun whenever he could, always with reading material next to him. I
had come by to mow his lawn that afternoon and, while I did, he took a
couple of pictures of me with my camera. Then I took a couple of him.
The wind suddenly came up in the first picture and the light changed
in the second, so the two shots are quite different.

This was on Ektachrome 100 SW film. In light as harsh as the sunlight
that day, that film was pretty contrasty. And with a decade and a
half of sitting in a folder, both images were looking a bit muddy in
their colour. So I converted them to b&w using a blue filter.

I can't remember which camera I used and I didn't write it on the
slides. I was mostly using my Canonet rangefinder then and I think
these were taken with it.