Random Old Photos – December 18th

A week before Christmas. Where does the rabbit hole of old pictures take us?

2,500 miles and fifty-one years, apparently. And into a black & white world. On film.

My camera at the time was a very old Argus film camera with a fixed lens. I was playing with using a pair of binoculars as a telephoto lens, with a rig I had put together myself to attach to a tripod and hold the camera and binoculars in place. This is from the hill behind our house, looking at the roof of the rectory from the Catholic Church across the street, to the First Congregational Church at the lower left edge of the picture, to Stellafane Hill off in the distance to the southwest.

If only I could talk to that 17-year-old kid for five minutes…