Benched

Dad appears to be bored with taking self-portraits.

Selfie, 1950s style

This is how my dad looked in the 1950s selfie.

Dad

Dad would have been 91 today.

Dad

Today would have been Dad's 90th birthday, so it's time for another one of his self-portraits. It's 1964, and dad has set up the camera on a timer for a family portrait. Note his unerring sense of timing as he blinks just as the shutter goes off. Also, this is clearly where my fascination with dolls action figures began. This is probably the earliest photo of the five of us: my parents, my two sisters and myself.

And this one, not taken by my father, is probably the last one taken of the five of us, from Christmas 1998, a couple of years before he passed away.

Camping With Dad

I'd thought I'd start this journey through my father's photo archive with a self-portrait. Except I can't seem to find one. The closest I've found so far is this one that he took when we went camping one summer at Scoen Lake. I think. It was either that or Buttle Lake. Anyway, he set the camera up on a picnic table with the timer going and he got the shot.