Sepia Saturday 189: 10 August 2013
Our theme picture for Sepia Saturday 189 comes from the Flickr Commons Collection of the National Library of Ireland and is entitled "What An Amazing Contraption". It provides us with an opportunity to search out photographs featuring all manner of strange or unidentified contraptions. And if you are fresh out of contraptions there is always cars or people sat in ridiculous positions. Contraption, n. (sl.). Queer machine, makeshift contrivance. (perh.f. contrive, cf. conceive, -ception). I have been fascinated with contraptions from a very early age. This photo is taken at Hurstville I think c.1960. I'm sitting on the bed with my father looking at one of my parent's cameras - maybe it's the Voigtlander . Both my parents enjoyed photography - my father often set up an amateur dark room in the laundry or the garage and I loved watching the photos magically appear in the trays of developing fluid. My mother was a fiendish photographer and ...