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{Quarantimes} Volume Four

November 16, 2023 9:53 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Amanda Raney

Fall 2020. I had gotten a Nikon mount version of a lens I have already have and liked and shot the whole roll with it!

Started this film out in Oxford, Mississippi, where I’d gone to take my mom to a doctor’s appointment

I always took pictures of flowers for mom (though she never got to see these 🙁 )

Hello

The iconic Ajax Diner

I was thrilled to see these pictures of my niece, whom I’d gotten to shoot a roll of film in one of my cameras! I want her to be my protege, of course.

I’d told her to take pictures of the flowers to show her Gramma, but again, I wasn’t able to get this film developed for a couple of years and mom didn’t get to see the photos 🙁

My little love

I was so proud of her for being creative enough to kneel down to get this shot

Ice cream shop in Oxford

We did something that fall that I felt betrayed all my fellow hunker downers: we went to see one of our favorite movies, Bend it Like Beckham, at the Orpheum. All safety precautions taken, and it ended up that there were probably only a total of twenty people in the whole building that night!

I feel some regret that so many photos I’ve gotten developed after mom passed away featured her wearing a face mask, so you don’t get to see her in her full glory. But at least I got to see new pics of mom after we lost her.

You may not be able to tell, but she’s smiling (you can tell by her eyes!)

I’ve said it before: the Orpheum is probably my favorite place in Memphis. So may good memories of going there to see their summer movie series with my family.

The iconic Beale Street

Umbrellas, for some reason

Double exposure of said umbrellas

In Oxford again for mom to visit a doctor

Mom really loved this metal sculpture near the town square down there, so I took some snaps of it

Little one and her coffee

It was hard trying to get this shot straight! It’s a covered area with seating in downtown Oxford

The closest thing to fall colors that we get down here

Nikon F3 HP • Tokina RMC 28mm f/2.8 lens • Fuji Superia 400 film

Side note: I got kind of emotional putting this post together, because so much of it involved mom

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{Quarantimes} Volume Two

September 7, 2023 9:07 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Amanda Raney

Another installment of my early pandemic era photos…

These photos at the zoo were actually taken on the Friday before the whole world shut down. I’m including them even if they weren’t taken while we were observing “safer at home” measures, because my family and I look back on this day and realize how eerie everything felt. I’m not trying to be dramatic by saying that! Things were beginning to close in around us, and you could feel it in the atmosphere.

Onto the actual early quarantine pictures!

Several times during those days, we went to a local park to eat outside and get some fresh air. My memories of those meals are mostly of our napkins flying off the tables because it was so windy outside around that time of year!

The next set of photos were taken on Mother’s Day 2020, when we ventured out to the deserted town square in Holly Springs, Mississippi. I will always remember this outing because my mom happened upon a TERRIBLY out of tune piano outside on the sidewalk, and as I always said “She never met a piano she didn’t play.” The piano sounded horrible, but it was still so fun of Mom to do that. I have a video of her playing and singing that day, which I will include at the end of the post. Since Mom passed away, these things mean the world to me and those who love her.

If mom were here, she’d probably fuss at me for posting this picture. But she was trying to take photos of some flowers that day, and I wanted to snap a photo of her!

Canon AE-1 • Agfa Vista 200

I’ve watched this so many time since we lost Mom…

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{Quarantimes} Volume One

August 18, 2023 8:44 am ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ Amanda Raney

I tend to end up waiting too long to send off a batch of film to be developed. That’s the case with film I shot during the beginning of the pandemic. I just got them developed this year, and I didn’t really know how to categorize some photos taken during that time. We were very careful back then, so we mostly stayed home (or cautiously went to coffee shops!) But, because I still had the desire to take photos, I have rolls of film filled with just shots of things around the place where I live. I wasn’t sure if anyone would want to see all these random photos so long after they were taken, during a period that now feels as if it were a lifetime ago. However, I will share the photos anyway in case someone might enjoy or find value in them. They definitely preserved memories of how life felt back then!

Consider this to be the first installment of a short series from “quarantimes.”

The galaxy insulated cup my sister got me for Christmas a few months earlier.

Quarantimes indeed

Strawberry jam my mom got from an Amish community she and my aunt visited a few days before the world shut down

A rare outing to Area 51 ice cream – not eating inside, of course!

Wild blackberries growing on our property

Funny story. I saw this from a distance, and thought “Wow! What a perfect toadstool! Let me grab a camera!” When I approached the scene, I found that it was not a toadstool, but it was a candle holder my mom was spray painting red *face palm*

Everyone got on the banana bread train during lockdown, but I’d already BEEN on it!

ACTUAL toadstools

Minolta Stsi • Fuji Superia 400

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Birthday-ish Week 2022

July 28, 2023 10:21 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Amanda Raney

More pictures from birthdays last. Not as prolific as my 2021 birthday week photos that I just shared, but it was my last birthday with my mom, so here the photos are anyway! (Also my blurriest birthday week photos yet. Womp womp.)

Lunch during my birthday outing: Pho Bihn lemongrass tofu outside Crosstown Concourse – I didn’t want to eat outside, but at least we got to overhear a conversation a man was having on the phone about raising hunting dogs 😂

Mural next to where we were sitting

Blurry mirror self-portrait

Sofa inside the Concourse

We went to Vice & Virtue for coffee after lunch. That looks like some sort of beer in my sister’s glass, but it was an iced coffee beverage with cold foam!

Okay, I get that this photo is blurry and useless, but it makes me laugh because my niece’s blurry face is smiling and I know what’s happening is that she’s annoyed that I’m trying to take a picture of her with her coffee rather than just letting her drink it!