Remembering Linda
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for charity
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^ That's the one of Paul & Linda that I was thinking of! Thanks oobu! What year do you think that was?
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Thanks so much for posting those photos, 0obu!
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Caption says this was taken in late Fall, 1968 (perhaps on their trip to Portugal?)
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Thanks for posting those... the rocking horse outside the kitchen is from 2015 (date by signature) and it looks like it’s an Appaloosa rocking horse too! Cool
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Found out (thanks Nancy!) that the photo above couldn't have been taken in Portugal, since Paul had a beard during that vacation (see below). It's more likely that the photo was taken during the Abbey Road sessions instead. Paul, Linda and Heather are pictured with Beatles biographer Hunter Davies and his family.
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In the picture of Linda, the one with the blue blouse, do any of the large black forms on her blouse remind you of the Sunprint photo of Baby James on a canvas?
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love2travel wrote:
In the picture of Linda, the one with the blue blouse, do any of the large black forms on her blouse remind you of the Sunprint photo of Baby James on a canvas?
Yes, it does look like the photo of James! I think the print is of sea mammals like dolphins and whales, however, but we'll have to see if there's other photos of this dress. Looks like the blue dress photo is from the early 1990s. She and Paul liked to wear the same clothes to different events (which I think was wonderful because it shows how down to earth they were, and how Paul still is of course.) so maybe there's other photos of that dress.
This is a photo of Paul and Linda at a wedding in the early 1990s.. I'm thinking it might be her sister Laura's wedding, but not sure...
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^ I looked in my Sunprints book (bought in Liverpool for £1.99!) and I couldn't find the photo you were referring to. Is it in a different book?
My friend Jennifer sent me some pics of one of Linda's sister's wedding. A friend of hers played guitar at it. Will try to find the pics.
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Nancy R wrote:
^ I looked in my Sunprints book (bought in Liverpool for £1.99!) and I couldn't find the photo you were referring to. Is it in a different book?
I think the photo Love2Travel is referring to about James is a black and white, when he was a baby but looks like he's somehow in mid-air... but he wasn't... it's been posted on Linda's Instagram, maybe we can look there
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I think this is the photo of baby James that Love2Travel was referring to earlier. It was posted on Linda's official Instagram on May 7, 2017
https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4JyOrjqLI/
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^ I see now! The figures on her dress are of James!
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Nancy R wrote:
^ I see now! The figures on her dress are of James!
Yes, that's what she was wondering. It looks like there's sea mammals on the fabric print as well, so that's why I wasn't sure, and just wondered if that was a coincidence.
Haven't seen this photo before, and thought it was lovely of them both
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Yes Lady Leslie, saw that version at one of Linda’s exhibits. It was the version of that photo in Linda’s Sunprints book that reminded me of the one on the dress.
It’s a beautiful book and the photos are made with special paper exposed to sunlight. (Did that technique in a college art class) very cool.
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love2travel wrote:
Yes Lady Leslie, saw that version at one of Linda’s exhibits. It was the version of that photo in Linda’s Sunprints book that reminded me of the one on the dress.
It’s a beautiful book and the photos are made with special paper exposed to sunlight. (Did that technique in a college art class) very cool.
Thanks, Love2Travel, hadn't heard of that technique before, sounds very interesting.
Was curious about the shadow image of baby James, and how she was able to photograph that. We know he wasn't in mid-air without anything to hold on to, so it must have been the way the sun was shining through a sail on a boat or something... and made a shadow? Thought it was interesting how it turned out.
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LadyLeslie wrote:
love2travel wrote:
Yes Lady Leslie, saw that version at one of Linda’s exhibits. It was the version of that photo in Linda’s Sunprints book that reminded me of the one on the dress.
It’s a beautiful book and the photos are made with special paper exposed to sunlight. (Did that technique in a college art class) very cool.
Thanks, Love2Travel, hadn't heard of that technique before, sounds very interesting.
Was curious about the shadow image of baby James, and how she was able to photograph that. We know he wasn't in mid-air without anything to hold on to, so it must have been the way the sun was shining through a sail on a boat or something... and made a shadow? Thought it was interesting how it turned out.
She could have used the same sports screen from your photo and placed the reactive paper under the screen for exposure which is what we did in my class by placing items over the paper and then exposing it. Now that I am looking at Linda’s sun prints again, I’m seeing that she is using photos, and getting an image, sort of like a sepia photo. The chemical causes the blue, instead of sepia colouring. So perhaps she focused a light over the film. It looks to me like she may have put the chemical solution on the paper, then exposed the chemical laden paper with a light source through the film. I’ll have to dig up my Sunprints book and do some reading. It might be something done in her Darkroom. Now you have me interested!
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Thought this was a lovely photo of Linda, that may have been taken for one of her cookbooks
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That is really another beautiful picture of Linda!
I found a you tube that explains the sunprints. A little way in, they explain how to make them from photos. Linda was doing some cool stuff!
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love2travel wrote:
That is really another beautiful picture of Linda!
I found a you tube that explains the sunprints. A little way in, they explain how to make them from photos. Linda was doing some cool stuff!
Thanks so much for this link, L2T! Had never seen how this was done before, and really enjoyed watching this!
This is another lovely photo of Linda we may not have seen before - taken by Paul in 1975 of the Standing Stone on their property in Scotland.