A couple of days ago, I took this shot of a temple’s gopuram (tower), for it looked so majestic against the blue sky.
I came home and played about with the photo on my photo editor and gave the picture a sepia tone. And this is how it looked.
On seeing the image, I was immediately transported to a long-ago time, where monochrome ruled our lives.
Of old albums with lacquer covers, and black mounting sheets, on which fathers and moms, meticulously captured family history, baby photo-diaries and lots more.
Where there was no ‘digital’, only ‘physical’. Photos that aged with a yellow sepia tone, capturing moments from our childhood – big ribbons and pretty frocks, sometimes dressed exactly like our siblings. Seeing a younger version of our parents and a time in their lives before ‘us’, their children.
I am sure most homes have at least one of these old albums, which captured family history and memories.
We will never know the colour in those pictures, but we do have a strong emotional connect with them. In our album we have many such wonderful photos – there is a photo of my husband and his brother on a scooter, my dad and his friend standing on our lawn, with a guitar, my sisters and I, dressed in identical skirts, and smiling at the camera!
The culture of physical albums is fast fading; now, it is all about digital archiving, and having the flexibility to edit memories and tell whatever stories one wants!
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