{"id":2742,"date":"2014-09-16T18:48:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2014-09-21T12:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:47:53","slug":"vintage-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a year since my lifelong friend, Robin, passed away, so I’ve been contemplating our relationship and good times. It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s over and done. We all have opportunities to love and enjoy life, and Robin certainly did. What a gift!<\/p>\n

His worldly possessions have been dispersed as he wanted. Among the items he left me was a fairly large collection of photographs. He was many things, hunter-gatherer, prolific reader, jack of all trades and surfer. Most people don\u2019t realize the amount of photography he produced.<\/p>\n

I spent\u00a0last winter going over thousands of photos he made since his early teens. Many of those images were inconsequential personal memories, but there are many that have merit.<\/p>\n

\"northside\"<\/a>\u00a0Taken from the north jetty.<\/p>\n

Of particular interest to me are Robin\u2019s photographs contained in an album from his early days surfing at Indian River Inlet in Delaware. I didn\u2019t know him then, but it\u2019s about the time I learned to surf a 9\u20196\u201d Bing there. It was a good wave and a good place for a young surfer to make friends and integrate into a new lifestyle.<\/p>\n

These old Polaroid photographs taken in 1967 and ’68 are one-of-a-kind originals.<\/p>\n

\"longboards\"<\/a>\u00a0I think Robin is on the far right, the others are unidentified.<\/p>\n

\"surfari\"<\/a>\u00a0I\u00a0don’t know\u00a0where this Polaroid was taken, but it looks typical of rural Delaware. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A 19 year old Robin stands between two unidentified friends while changing a flat tire.<\/p>\n

\"gemini<\/a>\u00a0A few years later, surfboards got a lot smaller. Robin took this snapshot of his team mates from Gemini Surf Shop out of Rehoboth Beach, perhaps about 1970. Dave Isaacs, Gary Revel, Jeff Ammons, Bryant Clark, Brent Clark, Skip Savage, Karl Gude and one unidentified. Who knows who he is?<\/p>\n

When most people take a picture, they don\u2019t realize\u00a0they’re making\u00a0a historical record. As a photographer, I didn\u2019t intend the pictures I took many years ago become history. But in retrospect, I see a lot of value in old photographs, the older the better. If I had it to do all over again, I would opt to do much more shooting of people or things that I routinely took for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a year since my lifelong friend, Robin, passed away, so I’ve been contemplating our relationship and good times. It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s over and done. We all have opportunities to love and enjoy life, and Robin certainly did. What a gift! His worldly possessions have been dispersed as he wanted. Among the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31,36,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-black-white-photography","category-history","category-people","category-surfing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}