Here's another slide from the old stuff I've been scanning. Among the collection there is a small set of colour photos taken of Larnach Castle on the Otago Peninsula. Luckily these weren't those horrid but oh-so-interesting Dufaycolor slides.
As it happens, just last week we were invited around to my mother-in-law's place so my wife could look through some boxes of her grandparents' old books. I was happy to tag along because she'd recorded a programme for me on Sky TV (our pay-an-arm-and-a-leg TV service). And to prevent her from bringing too many books home! Among the boxes she found a booklet from 1950 entitled "Larnach And His Castle" which gives an outline of the history of William Larnach and the castle he built. A history which is a bit incomplete 64 years down the track. This photo was next to the ones that were obviously Larnach Castle, and I wasn't sure whether this went with them as it has no label. The book contains a similar photo as well as a little extra information about the mosaic (see the comments below the photo). http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/784/#peso The colours on the slide are pretty bad, it's quite dim with a fairly strong reddish cast, probably due to its age. I've done the best I can but I'll have to do a field trip to find out what it's meant to look like. I'm thinking about getting in touch with the current owners as they might be interested in the photos, but if I can I'd like to find out more about the photographer first. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
