We would catch thousands of fish in nets, it was exhausting work, but fun. Don’t know how they do it now, but we did everything by hand. Finally got the heart to go through some of my old Kodachromes. I was using a Leica M4. It was my boyfriend’s father’s boat we worked on through the summers in the 80s.

I called her my 'third daughter.' We wanted our kids to grow up with a dog and we settled on this breed for their intelligence and looks.

No idea what camera I used, but it was film.

And her name? A meson is a black and white medium sized sub-atomic particle. My husband (who studied physics!) named her. We loved her!

I collect vintage sewing machines, and I've posted a pic of my Singer Model 128. It still needs some work to shine it up, but it still sews, and is in better shape than I found it in.

Only a couple of months ago and purchased a new, LIGHTWEIGHT one with more than straight stitching. I'm not a sewer of garments, but mend things and make the odd curtain. Still haven't come to terms with the modern machine - I want my old one back.

Singer in a cabinet. It still sews as well. But it looks it's age more than yours does.

to La Vencedora: a Singer 128. La Vencedora is the name of the decal set that Singer put on this machine, and it is not very common. The name means "The (female) Winner". You can find a complete list of Singer decals here:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/decals/domestics/singer_decal_sets2.html

to B&W sepia tone. Is that okay, or too much post production?

I don't know how else to upload a photo.

Looks like you fixed it, I can see it.

I may not win, but I'll get the most laughs!



This was on the Alaska Highway in the far northern part of British Columbia.

The captain of our boat had a great sense of humor, our restrooms consisted of 5 gallon blue plastic buckets with a toilet seat. He had stenciled the men and women symbols for restrooms (familiar, skirts for women pants for men) on the buckets. Cracked me up every time.

I shot this at the Sikanni Chief River in northern B.C. on my way up to Alaska in 2016.

should be tempered with reality. The photo of the Soviet C-189 that was a 613-class diesel-electric submarine built at St. Petersburg's Baltic Factory and launched September 4, 1954. It was part of the Soviet Fleet for 35 years and is now a museum moored on the River Neva in St. Petersburg. I took the photo from our cruise ship as we were leaving St. Petersburg on May 29, 2014.

Boom!

With a pic from the mechanical workshop at our local, closed down coal mine. It was shut in the 70s and later re-opened as a historical attraction as it was the reason my town was founded and carries a lot of history.

Mornings are a great time to visit the workshop, which is dark and dusty with a few high, small windows providing strong shafts of natural sunlight at certain times.

This is a photo of one of the stained glass panels in the 1858 house I owned in Arkansas. Selling that place was one of the hardest things I ever did. I spent 25 years and $$$$$$ on restoring it back after it had spent 50 years cut up into 5 apartments.

I'm sure you had a hard time, after doing all that work and spending all that money!

I hope whoever bought it treated it with the respect it surely deserves.

More info on the structure.

https://boisedev.com/news/2024/08/08/inside-the-idaho-church-built-in-1871-still-used-today/

with a photo of my 1971 Les Paul Deluxe guitar and 1960 Gibsonette Tremolo GA-8T amplifier. I bought the guitar new in 1972, when I was 15 and working after school and Saturdays at a Sears Roebuck catalog store. My parents bought the used amplifier and lived to regret their momentary lapse of reason.

My precious daughters, back in the day . . .

I almost forgot!

Phew!

from the same trip as the first entry. Shot of the old bike leaning against the old building taken on a street in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was in 2014. Bikes were everywhere, including hundreds of them locked to racks in front of an entrance to the subway.

Pedal cars hung in an old mechanics garage. Quick pic as I waited for my vehicle inspection seven years ago.

The entries are SUPER! Lots of variety and I loved reading the backstories, too!

I think you can tell by the wide variety of entries that we sure had a great time.

I just knew our DU photogs would rise to the occasion! I’m glad I thought of it, too!