The journey of family history, personal present, and photo future begins…
Hey everybody! This is my first jump into the world of, what the kids call, "blogging"..It all starts with this photo, and my rapidly growing interest in forced-perspective photography. It also starts with me reconnecting with my dad five years ago. He retired this year, and in our reconnection, he has mentioned the first car he ever owned, a 1968 GTO, purchased new, and owned until he wrecked it in 1972. The ideal son, with an endless amount of wealth, would buy his old man the fully stock restored car, at a current market price of $30,000.00. This exceeds my net worth by about 2/3, so I'm going with plan b. A google search led me 4 blocks down the street, to a die cast modelers paradise, which happened to have one of 2 1968 GTO scale model cars I've been able to find anywhere. I bought it. The other one was from a seller in England, who wanted 4x what I paid. This is leading me to a lot of careful forethought on what I do with this purchase. Namely, on its own, its missing 2 key things my dads car had; a black vinyl roof, and black interior. In its current state, it has a solid roof and parchment interior. Please join me on this blogging journey of reconnecting with my father, my childhood love of scale modeling, and my photographic passion of "making a big thing out of the little things".. Many more posts to come..Cheers.