Another old shot. I remember the moment: I was walking somewhere in east Vancouver, new to the city, just poking around with my camera, when these two little guys shouted "Mister, mister! Take our picture!" So I did.
That's all I know about them. Two grubby little boys, their faces trusting, innocent, happy that a stranger would want to take their picture. Today, if they survived to adulthood, they will be in their early to mid-fifties. I wonder what kind of lives they've had.
Photographed in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) on Kodacolor film; scanned from the original negative. The camera was a Pentax Spotmatic and I was using a 105mm lens. I'm surprised at how well the colour has held up after all these years, considering the relative instability of colour neg materials. I made this scan more than ten years ago and finally got around to processing it last winter! Did some necessary re-saturating and colour correction in Photoshop, as well as dust removal - the big consumer photo labs of the era had virtually no quality control and were full of dust. The result is pretty accurate, I think. Fun to work with these retro images from time to time!
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