Monthly Archives: July 2013
Hold Tight
“Hold Tight”
Yashica 124G / Ilford film
My funny little boy is a real treasure, so full of love and yet so hard to reach. He teaches me to live one day at a time and to let go of the small stuff. And the medium sized stuff. And most of the big stuff too.
Synchronicity
This morning I was looking through a photobook of Victorian pictures when I saw this portrait of Julia Stephens & her daughter Virginia, who later in life wrote novels (Virginia Woolf). The picture was taken by Henry H. H. Cameron.
I was amazed by how much Virginia resembles my little Teddy – although her mouth shape is very different by comparison.
Just now I saw a beautiful photograph online, it’s called the Gardener’s Daughter:
This was taken by Julia Cameron, Henry’s mother, whose niece – Julia Jackson – was Virginia Woolf’s mother. Such a pleasing synchronicity. Julia Cameron discovered a love of photography at the rather late age of 48, and she gave up taking pictures just 11 years later after moving to Ceylon (she found chemicals impossible to source), but even so, she took many beautiful photographs during that short time. Here is a remarkable portrait she took of her niece in 1867, aged 21.