this photograph, surfacing suddenly during a spring clean, bewildered me a bit: not
that i don't remember exactly who took it (my lovely roommate carole) and where (the alleyway next to our apartment, bidwell-just-off-robson in vancouver) and when (the early 70's); nor do i wonder what on earth i am wearing - i couldn't, and can't, resist a second-hand shop for the life of me.
what i don't understand is the brown bottle in my one hand and the cigarette in my other. wine has always been my beverage of choice, even in those days when there were only ghastly screw-topped domestics to be had. and i certainly didn't smoke - well, not tobacco, anyway - back then.
they were, i suspect, simply whimsical props; in hindsight, though, and wryly, i ponder the portent-factor of beer and bright orange: perhaps fate was setting the stage for a dutch future, for a life exactly where i am living it right now.
What can I say?
ReplyDeleteI LOVE old photos... I just wanted digital cameras to have like 'Old mode - ON!' :D
Brilliant capture...
Lynn, this is really a nice photo: I do not know what you were doing but your pose is great. It is not just the bottle or the sigarette, but also the defiant pose, and the way you are slightly lifting the skirt. I don't know what it means, but just looks great. And while I was looking at the photo I had the impression that I had seen another somebody else lifting her skirt in the same way. Then I remembered: have a look at the last but one photo at http://www.letitfall.org/meandmyskirt.html Like mother like daughter? ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou still have that radient smile.
ReplyDeleteHmm, maybe there is a plan for our lives that we only have the clarity to see when we track our lives back through old photographs.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely thought.
~I completely dig 70's photos...that Foto Hut orange-ish hue...the rectangular format, the white border...sometimes my best memories as a kid appear in photos such as this...thnx for allowing us a peek into your past...as always your words complete the image~
ReplyDeleteHey, I love old photo's as well. The car in the background is very 70's.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff!
I love those little reminders that you're on the right track! : )
ReplyDeletegroovy baby! groovy!
ReplyDeleteThe background really locates it in time, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd, apart from the other things as noted above, there is sensuality as well. Just like in the photo mentioned by Massimo.
ReplyDeletewhat a great photograph lynn... and an orange dress... you're favorite color too ;-)
ReplyDeletei love this glimpse into your past. :)
ReplyDeleteit even looks like vancouver! that's a great picture!
ReplyDeleteutterly fantastic!!
ReplyDeleteLook at you!! Having spent plenty of time with my hands loaded with beer bottles and...um...'cigarettes'...myself in the early early 70's, this made me SMILE.
ReplyDelete70's no its looks now, the same smile and look like, its Lynn from 2005.
ReplyDeleteGreat picture
Sea you soon.
I absolutely love this. I want to go back in time and know this girl. What a great insight into your past you have given us. I also love that little flirty lifting of the skirt to show the forbidden knee...how sexy ; )
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