Glamorous cameras, clickety click!..

This photograph brought a little amusement to a chilly week when I posted it on Facebook and asked people if they could identify the cameras. (Hey, why don't you click the link and join my group whilst you're at it!) These are the actual bodies I used to shoot a lot of my Twelve for '13 archive and they all still work, apart from the Olympus XA at the front (Oops, gave that one away there!) Well, it's still chilly but I don't think that's going to put people off from coming down for the second of my Saturdays at Eccles Community Art Gallery. So many people have expressed an interest, and I know they're going to love it when they visit. The Gallery are saying on their website that it's the most popular exhibition they've ever had, and it's only been on a week! Wow! Anyway, just before I head down there, the other cameras are a Zentih EM and a Yashica 124G. So now you know, but let's see if anyone knows where today's Blog title comes from...

Ever, ever?...

Did my passion for photography come from my Dad? Hard to say! He did own a Kodak Instamatic, but it was always kept in its plastic box in the sideboard, and I can't ever remember him using it. I do know that he was always very supportive once I got the photography bug, and he signed as my guarantor when I bought my first 'good' SLR on HP! It was a Yashica FR1, a couple of snazzy Japanese steps up from the Russian Zenith EM you can see him using here, but all this talk of the Credit Squeeze reminded me of the very first camera I bought on the 'never never'...  That was a Halina Paulette Electric, and a second hand model cost me £16 in 1975. Thing was, unlike today, it was only mine when I'd paid for it, and I had to traipse down to Alan Halkyard cameras in Eccles every Saturday to pay another pound off the price. Crikey, I used to feel wonder if I'd ever own it! Finally, of course, I got my sweaty palms on it, and loved it all the more for the effort it had taken to own it.

It's time, as the economists keep telling us, to get back to get back to those values!