Sentimental

I remember looking at this photograph time and time again and never getting bored of it. Fascinated with it because of the idea of someone taking a picture of someone else taking a picture - I always wondered what the other one looked like? Who was in it? Where is it now? And who ever owned two cameras at one time? Did it belong to a friend? Is the boy only pretending? Or is he really taking a picture too?

The boy is my dad and the car in the background was my granddad's much loved Packard. We're assuming that it was taken in Bloemfontein in the early 1950's with my granddad being the photographer.

John Daubney

I've put my watermark on it to protect our "family heirloom".

When I googled "Pictures of people taking pictures" I came across a song by Jack Johnson:

Pictures of People taking Pictures

Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures

I pictured us at the end of time
Holding up a camera to our eyes
I took a picture of you took a picture of me
In the background of the picture
Was water running to the sea

So I pictured us standing there
Staying away from time
Watching it like a river
As it slowly washes by

And now
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures
And now
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures

The feed back loop
Is closing is so tight
Surrounding ourselves
With satellites

So I pictured us standing there
Staying away from time
Watching it like a river
As it slowly washes by

And now
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures
I pictured us at the end of time
Taking pictures of nothing