Neckless
Written by David White
Neckless, Leicester.
I’ve just been up into the archive (read loft) to have a look for a pic which I will post in a while. When rummaging around I came across¬†a favourite pic of mine, and one I had forgotten about..and one that reinforces the old snappers rule that you should have a camera on you at all times.
In this case it was an old Nikon F2 with a 35mm f2 lens wedged on the front. I was on my lunch break from working as a staffer at the Leicester Muckrake (oops..sorry..Mercury…) As usual with that camera I had to guess the exposure as there was no meter, but that was no problem because I had used the same film in all my cameras for donkeys years..tri-x, at 400asa.
I only wrote all that about kit because I know lots of you are obsessed with cameras…has anyone ever asked a journo what pen they use?¬† Anyway…I digress…This old dear was rummaging about for something in her shopping bag. Her head seemed¬†to disappear…it was there, honest…and no, there is no photoshoppery…hadn’t been invented, and I’ve got the bleedin’ neg if you don’t believe me…After I first printed the pic I realised she was outside a jewellers, so the neckless / necklace title it was.
Hope it makes you smile, ’tis a hard thing to do with a still image.
 
Discussion (3 Comments)
awesome … we spent ten minutes looking at this life and really, I’m starting to think you’re pulling my leg … I mean where is that woman’s head? And what’s all this about rummaging in her bag?
Think I’m going to have to look at the neg …
Well…I’ve pulled up the bit on the shot where you can see her head…I’ll post it if you like..
If you look really carefully in the reflection in the door you can see her head.
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No No … its like a magician revealing his trick only to find out that there isn’t one afterall, which is exactly the trick …
Its still really mindblowing … literally we have spent ages looking at this pic!