So there’s this guy, “Bill”, who loved to take pictures…he lived somewhere around Rhode Island…and when he passed away, as is the case for many people, his things were packed up and sold for whatever his relatives could get for them. Among those things were many, many rolls of undeveloped film, some of which ended up on eBay, were purchased by me here in India, and developed.
In so doing, I discovered that Bill either was a guy, or knew a guy who liked to sit in his back yard and smoke cigars.
The photos he took were on different brands of 120 film, and square, 6cm by 6cm. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help narrow it down. The fact that he was such a photography enthusiast, however, suggests that he may have been using one of the fancy twin lens reflex cameras photographers still love to use – but these were manufactured from the 1940s onward, and continue to be used today.
At one point, he took his camera to a wedding.
And I somehow find it tragic that he never developed the pictures he took. The groom looks like he could be our same cigar smoking friend in the garden. But this doesn’t answer who was taking the pictures.
I have two more rolls of Bill’s that have been rescued and developed. I’ll post those in the coming weeks. In the meantime, you can check out the other photos from this roll, as well as other “found film” projects at this link on Flickr.
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