Bentley website

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A new website has just gone live, featuring the John Lennon Bentley that my dad photographed on King's Road in the late 1960s (see previous post). Rather than just focus on the car, the site also looks into the Swinging 60's scene, and rather wonderfully it features a few of my dad's photos. Take a look at http://beatlesbentley.com/, and my dad's pics are in "The Place" and "The Time" sections, including the B&W shots of the car. Thanks to Tanner and Marshall at the Slaughter Group in Birmingham, Alabama for finding the photos on Google and getting in touch....
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Published!

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My father is now a published photographer. Back in March I got an email out of the blue from someone asking whether I'd be interested in publishing some of my dad's 1959 Le Mans photos in a book. Ha ha, very funny I thought. Then I googled the chap's name - Quentin Spurring. It turns out he's a motorsport author who has published books like "Le Mans 24 Hours: The Official History of the World's Greatest Motor Race 1960-69" and 1970-79, and I realised that this was a serious query and he must be doing the 1950-59 version. I didn't take long to decide that yes, I'd be happy for his images to appear! To cut a long story short, The Official History 1949-59 has just been published and I received a complimentary copy today. It's lovely, and the 9 of my dad's photos have come out beautifully - including one on the back cover, one as a two-page spread as the...
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200 up!

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I have now finished the first four boxes of black & white films, so that's 200 done. OK, I've skipped a chunk that are photos of Masque Theatre productions, but that's still quite a lot to have got done in the last year.It seems to me that there have been three phases so far. Phase 1 was "student". The second was "petrolhead", and we're now moving into the third - "family"If there's anyone out there, I hope you've been enjoying it as much as I have.More to follow as and when they're scanned.Simon...
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An interlude

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I've just been flicking through some of my dad's recipe folders, scanning a few (well, quite a lot actually) that look interesting - and found this in the middle of it.No prizes for anyone who manages to decipher it, but about all I can make out at first glance is "OH YES" against the 5th one.He should have been a doctor - he had the handwriting for it......
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An update

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That brings us to the end of the first box of 50 black & white films, which takes us to 1958 and basically the end of the student and National Service period.I've brought home about half of his slides, so I'm currently having a detour into some 1950s colour. I shall be posting some of those in the near future, before a return to the second box of black and white....
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