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Looking back,
Pictures of Emm
In the days before digital, colour photography demanded a level of expertise (and equipment) which put it beyond my reach. I could manage the processing of colour slides but couldn’t turn them into prints. Another drawback with colour slides (at least for me) was that the picture had to be “composed” in the camera, with no chance of cropping or resizing later. I have always been useless at visualising images at the picture-taking stage. As a result I have few colour photographs of Emma from our past. Those I have all date back to when she was in her thirties. At the time it was my ambition to see Emma across a double-page spread in the Readers’ Wives section of one of those down-market girlie mags with names like Razzle and Men Only. So without Emma’s knowledge I sent some of the slides off never to be seen again. I don’t know if any were actually published, because contributions were syndicated and I couldn’t afford to buy all the boys’ mags on the top shelf. But the idea of some guy masturbating over pictures of my wife really turned me on.
In the days before digital, colour photography demanded a level of expertise (and equipment) which put it beyond my reach. I could manage the processing of colour slides but couldn’t turn them into prints. Another drawback with colour slides (at least for me) was that the picture had to be “composed” in the camera, with no chance of cropping or resizing later. I have always been useless at visualising images at the picture-taking stage. As a result I have few colour photographs of Emma from our past. Those I have all date back to when she was in her thirties. At the time it was my ambition to see Emma across a double-page spread in the Readers’ Wives section of one of those down-market girlie mags with names like Razzle and Men Only. So without Emma’s knowledge I sent some of the slides off never to be seen again. I don’t know if any were actually published, because contributions were syndicated and I couldn’t afford to buy all the boys’ mags on the top shelf. But the idea of some guy masturbating over pictures of my wife really turned me on.
