1950's PHOTOS

My Favorite photos

This section contains some of my most favorite photos, many taken when I was studying at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts in the mid 1950s. In those days my only camera was an old 1934 Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex, fitted with an f3.5 Triotar. Later in the 1960s I became the very proud owner of a Hasslebled 1000F. An early version with a focal plane shutter and a manually stopped down Tessar f2.8. One had to be dedicated to use it. I still have it and it works.

In the 1950s you could point a camera at anyone and they were pleased to have their photo taken

Fairground Girl	Not Much Left Taken in a Spanish cafe 1963. Hassleblad FP4	Derby Day Fairground Gallopers in full swing. Ikoflex HP3 = 1957
Raija When courting my wife	Berwick Street Market A winters day - taken by the light of a solitary light bulb hanging in a market stall	Contentment Having a doze on Epsom Downs
Late Night Commuters in the 1950s you could point a camera at anyone and they were all happy to have their photos taken	Derby Day Queue The ladies awaiting their turn	British Museum Beautiful natural light - Ikoflex HP3 developed in Microphen
Children's Playground Built on the South Bank after the Festival of Britain had gone	Co Workers Girls working at the Agfa colour processing labs, Wimbledon 1959. I worked there during the printer's strike as Maynard Studios closed down for the duration	A cafe in Dinard Group in a cafe in Dinard, France
Children's Playground Built on the South Bank after the Festival of Britain had gone	London Life	Dragonfly
A Teddy Boy London Life in the mid 1950s	Derby Day Fairground Children Taken at the Derby day fairground, Epsom downs	Derby Day Fairground Children Taken at the Derby day fairground, Epsom downs 1956
	Derby Day Fairground	Digital photo Taken on Waterloo Bridge, on the Queen Mum's 100th birthday. A spitfire and a Wellington flew over so I switchen on the Olympus C1400 that took for ever to boot up. It came to life just as the Red Arrows flew over. There is a crane in the photo that I haven't finished editing out.
Apple blosson One of the first digital photos taken on the Olympus C1400 SLR in 1998. Blossom on my apple free

My Favorite photos

Fairground Girl

Not Much Left

Taken in a Spanish cafe 1963. Hassleblad FP4

Derby Day Fairground

Gallopers in full swing. Ikoflex HP3 = 1957

Raija

When courting my wife

Berwick Street Market

A winters day - taken by the light of a solitary light bulb hanging in a market stall

Contentment

Having a doze on Epsom Downs

Late Night Commuters

in the 1950s you could point a camera at anyone and they were all happy to have their photos taken

Derby Day Queue

The ladies awaiting their turn

British Museum

Beautiful natural light - Ikoflex HP3 developed in Microphen

Children's Playground

Built on the South Bank after the Festival of Britain had gone

Co Workers

Girls working at the Agfa colour processing labs, Wimbledon 1959. I worked there during the printer's strike as Maynard Studios closed down for the duration

A cafe in Dinard

Group in a cafe in Dinard, France

Children's Playground

Built on the South Bank after the Festival of Britain had gone

London Life

Dragonfly

A Teddy Boy

London Life in the mid 1950s

Derby Day Fairground Children

Taken at the Derby day fairground, Epsom downs

Derby Day Fairground Children

Taken at the Derby day fairground, Epsom downs 1956

Derby Day Fairground

Digital photo

Taken on Waterloo Bridge, on the Queen Mum's 100th birthday. A spitfire and a Wellington flew over so I switchen on the Olympus C1400 that took for ever to boot up. It came to life just as the Red Arrows flew over. There is a crane in the photo that I haven't finished editing out.

Apple blosson

One of the first digital photos taken on the Olympus C1400 SLR in 1998. Blossom on my apple free