Old-school Photographers Gifts

Life Before Instagram

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

"Everybody meets online these days."

"Percy Shattock, Page Three Girls...1979 to 1986."

Henry Fox Talbot

1870: The accidental invention of 'the selfie'.

'Watch the birdie...'

Workers constructing barcodes

'Our family is so ugly, we keep the negatives instead of the pictures in the photo album!'

"Sorry, I double-booked. This wouldn't happen if I had a computer - but they insist we do everything by hand."

Photographers Then and Now.

VJ Day Photo Parody

Early camera selfie stick

Church in the year 2035.

corporal confusing a camera with a gun

Muybridge updated.

The first, and only, known photograph of a human being actually slipping on a banana peel.

Woman mistakes a camera for a gun

Husband and wife outside photographer's shop

'Yeek. I need to ditch this thing and quick!'

Man having his equestrian portrait taken by a photographer

'That is an old photograph! The model's got her legs closed.'

Selfie With A Scarecrow

Nope, don't think the sheriff likes wearin' that body camera.

Ha ha, here's me in the '70s. "Doreen".

A lady posing for a photograph

'This is so old-school.'

Technophobes Illustrated Dictionary - Digitally Mixed - Any drink stirred without the use of a spoon, swizzle stick or any other tool/utensil.

'Still having trouble setting your .63 inch camera? When are you going metric?'

Why Early Photographers Didn't Take Selfies

"Now, try to think of yourself in a silver frame on a piano in the twenty-first century."

"You can keep your fancy cell phone. As for me, I'll avoid all that extra effort and do things the old-fashioned way."

Do you remember when all we had to do was go to the filing cabinet and take out the file?

'I really like these black and white pictures, Gramps. Did you Photoshop them?'

I must say, Cynthia - you photograph better with your clothes off.'