I wish this view were real. Because if it was real,then I could talk to my mom. And tell her how much I love her and what a great mom she was. But, I would have to be that age again too, I guess, so that would not be too cool. I saw yet another "Dear Photo" picture on 365 yesterday and realized I had a perfect opportunity! My mom's house that we are cleaning out and preparing for a yard sale is right down the street from the home we lived in when I wasborn until 2nd grade. I had this picture of Mom with us in the yard one Easter Sunday. I guess I am about 2 here, so this is in 1967. We used to get these inflatable Easter bunnies with different compartments, and holes in the wall of each. There was ball or jingle bell that you could shake into each compartment and then back again. I might have been too little for one this particular year.
Today was "start packing up some of Mom's stuff" day. I was glad to have some company. My SIL, niece and nephew went with me. Before we did any picking and packing, we walked to my childhood home and knocked on the door. Two cars were in the carport, but no one answered. We were already on the drive way and it's a small town...so we took about 5 min. to try to get a decent shot. It's hard when it is so bright you can't see your viewfinder very well.
This one came out pretty good. I really liked that the photo was trimmed in a heart shape....Mom had a heart shaped frame for it. That just sums it all up about how I feel about my mom and how my heart will hurt at times.
I will be keeping my eyes out for other chance to do this type thing! It was a nice walk...just really hot!
This is fab and such a coincedence as I was only speaking about this kind of shot to a friend today. I really must try it. I have that issue with the viewfinder as well and I was told to get a 'Loupe' it is an eye piece that you wear around your neck and put over the viewfinder and you can the shot really well.
I think yours came out even better than mine! I know how you feel about missing mom- my mother passed away unexpectedly 29 years ago but sometimes if feels like yesterday. Every now and then, I just want to talk to her and all I can say is "Mom, I miss you!". I must say, my faith helps a lot, but we're all human and when you love someone as you did your mom, and I did mine, you can't help but feel the loss at times.
@olivetreeann Ann, That is about all I can say now...I just say outloud in the car, "I miss you Mom." Did that for Dad for the past four years and now both. Ugh. Your photo the other day is what finally made me try the "dear photograph" thing...:0) It was awesome! @allibird You should go check out Ann's in her project...of the kids (Ann and her relatives) lined up to go into the school....
@dora I hate to say I did this, because it is pointing out flaws, but when we got down there to shoot this, we realized part of the white border was on the right side of the photo. It was from that era. I had to try to clone it out on the right side and was in hurry and did a bad job..but it will have to do for today.
@olivetreeann It won't seem to let us post the address to our photos in the thread....if that was what you were trying...not sure why. Also, I cannot search for people by name...says that is disabled. And, I just tried to follow the link above to go to my niece's photo like this, and it won't work.What is up?
I don't understand why this will not let me put the "address" in your comment box. I was able to do it before- oh well. If you want to see Anna's, she's at @annaruth.
This is really fantastic! Perfect angle with the photo, and the heart shape is that much more poignant. I am so sorry about your mom, but your memories are plentiful, and I hope will carry you through these difficult times.
Such a beautiful photo and tribute to the relationship between you and your mom. I, too, had a mother who died too young. I went through the same cleaning out the hose, having the yard sale and all. I still miss her, but I realized that the memories didn't stay in that house - they're right here in my heart, and I take part of her wherever I go. You will, too.
I love the shot, and the idea! And this made me cry because I wish I could talk to my grandmother and I can't help but be connected to the past. Best wishes to you.
What a lovely sentiment. I really like these photos where you set up an old photo into a new one. BTW, you made it to the popular page with this one :)
Just catching up and found this on PP. What a great shot and I love that your mum had cut it into a heart shape. Difficult times but I hope you find lots of happy memories to take with you from the house.
@judithg Thank you, Judith! They are hard times and they will get harder because death is forever...but I have good family and friends, which will help immensely!
This is beautiful! I lost my Mum 18 months ago and it still hurts as if it were yesterday (see my 'angel' photo a couple of days ago) Fantastic picture. I absolutely LOVE it!! So emotional and clever. *Reaches for tissue*
I really like this. I really like the idea. It's the first one of these I've seen. I may need to do something like this. Add it to my list of "must take" pictures.
@lauren211 Thanks, Lauren! Did you see the one on my neice, Erin Henry's project also? It wasmore special for me because Erin (and her mom and brother) went with me to do it. I was so glad for that, or it would have seemed very sad and lonely. I also posted a photo of Erin shooting her photo in my other album.....
this is really cool - thanks for sharing. I don't have any older shots of my childhood houses - the shot of mine from the other day was the house that mum and Dad divorced from so a lot of the photos got ripped apart in the divorce, and I was too young for a camera then! It's only my memories that tell me the house is very different now to back then...
@sparkle Oh, that is too bad. Some people do these with other locations....schools, parks, town buildings, etc... Have you seen some of the links showing these type pics? They are amazingly cool. One girl had a photo looking out her home's glass front storm door and you could see her and her sisters running from off the school bus up to the house...so she stood in that same spot as an adult and held up that pic. The pic was maybe in b and w too...so it was really neat. You could search the tag "dear photo" and see some of them I would suppose.
@allibird You should go check out Ann's in her project...of the kids (Ann and her relatives) lined up to go into the school....
This is actually the photo that started it all-@annaruth