Cold, miserable days are the best kind for poking around in vintage warehouses; the buildings are lacking in any type of temperature control so rugging up is essential. A few weekends ago, wintry weather descended upon Melbourne even though...
Vintage Airplanes – Kodachrome Slides
The vintage aircraft Kodachrome slides in this collection are a select few from my father’s and a family friend’s collection. Some were taken in the 1960s, a few in the 1980s and others I’m not sure but most likely...
Historic Buildings – Castlemaine to Maryborough
If there’s one thing I love, it’s a road trip. It brings with it many photographic opportunities. Country Victoria (Australia) is peppered with many forgotten towns that flourished until we demanded bigger highways to get us places faster. Where...
Love at First Sight – Birdie III Fuji Projector
It was the curves that caught my eye. I’d never seen one like it. The copper/gold bubbled front panel glittered and beckoned at me from the cabinet. The unusual shape; the name Birdie and the typeface used; the two...
Rescuing the Hopgood Family
During one of my expeditions to the Waverly Antique Bazaar, I spied a cabinet that contained several boxes of Kodachrome slides. The cabinet was locked so I asked the assistant to pick me a box, any box. “Any box...
The Box Brownie Project Part I
Vintage cameras aren’t new to me. In 2008 in Rutherglen, Victoria, I happened upon a Kodak Six-20 Model E Box Brownie (1947-1953) in a tiny antique store. I paid the asking price of $10 and my collection was born....
Addicted to Rescuing Kodachrome Slides
There’s something deliciously mysterious about Kodachrome slides. Hold them up to a window or light source and you’ll get a vague idea as to what they contain, but until they are beamed onto the expanse of a pale coloured...