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| Shawn and I at 'Rock-View' 2004 Photographer: Brenda Bush |
All my life I lived on a farm, until the start of the year when I moved here to Canberra for study.
As a kid I always remembered looking up to my older brother Shawn. I think this was mostly because when we were together we always found plenty of fun things to get up to, especially around the farm!
This is a photograph our mother took of the two of us, mucking around on the dam with an old boat Shawn found. The boat had holes in it and water would leak in while we were paddling around the dam, but that didn’t stop us.
Mum says that she thought it would be nice to get some photos of us while we were mucking around, but I think she just used that as an excuse to come with us, so she could make sure that we weren’t going to drown!
The camera that was used would have been my Dads MINOLTA dynax 500si film camera with the 35-70mm lens; this was the main camera our family used to take photos. I think mum and dad liked to think it made them look professional! To get the photo printed, mum would have taken the roll of film (most likely to be Kodak) into the Yass Doyle’s Pharmacy, where she always got her film processed. This would have taken a couple of hours, so she would have done her shopping and then picked the photos up afterwards.
I love this photograph, not for any visually dynamic reason, just the fact that it reminds me of the good times my brother and I had as kids, especially now that we both live out of home and don’t get to see each other very often. It is a lovely memory to keep hold of.
That's a beautiful memory, and the photograph is there to sustain it. Sometimes we even have memories that are due to the photograph, rather than the other way around. If you do find a lot of special photos in the old family albums you might want to scan some to preserve them for the future.
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