For whatever reason (probably involving space or storage issues), my parents didn’t keep their film negatives.  They cared about little 5×3.5 prints for the photo albums and once they had those anything extemporaneous got tossed, sadly.  Out of ~15 years of photo albums that I went through at my mother’s house, I found 9-10 rolls of film negatives, some incomplete, but these are going to yield the highest-quality images I’m ever likely to get out of my brother’s and my childhood.  I put them all through my Pakon F335 and finished in Affinity Photo.

Now I’m grateful that we have all the photo albums and some of these are pictures I remember from them.  Others are ones I thought were good compositions, or had some other je ne sais quoi about them: they’re just nice portraits.  Some are so memorable as photographs that they transcend the memory itself in my mind, and they have a certain notoriety among our circle of Ohio friends from that time.  I’ve tried to sequence the images chronologically, as much as ever I can. They span years from 1992 to about 2000 or early 2001.

These rolls run the gamut, some Fuji 100 & 200, Kodak Gold 100 & 200, and CP100.  The black & white shot is Plus-X.  I guess we were never really people to splurge for expensive or higher-speed film stocks.  There are several rolls which start at our home in central Ohio and end with us on vacation in Florida.  All or almost all of these would have been taken with my mom’s Minolta XG-A as that was pretty much the only camera we ever had.