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Cartes-de-Visite

February 11, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I stumbled over a few cartes-de-visite recently without realising what they were. I hadn’t realised that Parisians and Victorians (and the rest of the world) exchanged photographic portraits as calling cards.

Not a CdV but a self portrait from 1894
John Loftus Robinson in Wells
with thanks to RSAI and AASchool.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: aaschool, jlr, photography, rsai

SLR and JLR

August 25, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I took a photo in August 2012 with a telephone camera whose depth of field and field of view are neither much different to those obtained by whatever device was used by one of my great-grandfathers in July 1888. We’ll call him JLR because it’s easier than John Loftus Robinson. This shot was taken when visiting Hardwick Hall with my father FRR on an excursion following ancestral footsteps documented by a series of photos taken by JLR between 1880 and 1893.

And while we’re abbreviating, so you don’t get confused between JLR, FRR and SLR, I’ll say that SLR is a standard acronym for the single lens reflex camera.

Hardwick Hall : Front View
2012: iPhone 4S 2.28mm f/2.4 1284/s ISO60 © Simon Robinson
1888: unknown camera by John L Robinson ARHA 1888 held in RSAI
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: ansel adams, hardwick hall, henri cartier-bresson, jlr, photography, photos, rsai, signal to noise, travel

Howth and Now

May 31, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I wrote about what I was doing in November 2010. That retelling was inspired by a receipt that fell from a book. The revisit to 2010 had me looking at some photo albums and there I found a memory of great pain.

By coincidence, this weekend ten years ago we had a couple of our extended American family as guests for lunch. It was Sunday lunch and I decided to go back with them on the train to Howth where they were staying and then walk home. Which is exactly what I did and I got home on the Monday very early AM which was like today, May 31st. It’s a 42 kilometre marathon distance walk and you can read about the blisters here.

42 km yet to walk around to the other side of Dublin Bay.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: jlr, photography, photos, rsai, travel, walking

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