windows into worlds

Thanks to the inimitable Don Giannatti for this link.  I just spend the entire morning going through these photos…  This guy collects old cameras with partiall used, never processed film still in them and processes the old film.  Looking at the pictures I find it utterly fascinating.   It truly is a window into another world, but at the same time it is a mirror – reflecting in us so many truisms about people, family, and the passage of time.  These old photos have an inexplicable beauty to me, along with their mysterious history which gives them an air of quiet dignity and an ephemeral sadness at the same time.

Some might just consider them old snapshots, but I think they are wonderfully moving.