Today marks the fourth anniversary of The Passion of Former Days!
As usual, the occasion makes me go "wow." To be honest, I thought it would be something I dabbled with for a month or maybe two. The first time a post hit 100 views my jaw hit the floor. Now... four years, 462 posts, and 940,000 page views. The pace has slowed a bit from earlier days, but really that's been because of the blog's influence, too. Through this little endeavour I realized how much I love historical photographs, which led me to the decision to switch fields (from medieval history, of all places), which led me to a master's in Photographic Preservation at Collections Management, which itself exposed me to more amazing photographs that I ever could have believed I'd see (I've been inches away from the first daguerreotype!). I just accepted my offer of admission to do a PhD at Canada's top university, on snapshots. At the moment I'm working doing research with WWI images, which is very fitting, considering two of my first three blog posts were of WWI photographs.
The moral is: you sure never know what decisions are going to be life-changing!
It's been absolutely wonderful to see this blog--and, of course, these pictures--get the feedback it has. There are so many great pictures out there, and after all these years and all this learning and all this experience I only feel that more. I love that there's people out there who love this too. Thank you for all the follows, and all the shares, and, most importantly, all the enjoyment!
FOUR YEARS!
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| © Crown copyright. IWM (RAF-T 6311) |
Four planes of the RAF aerial display team the Red Pelicans, 1963-64. Source
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| University of Washington Libraries |
Four women in wood veneer bathing suits for a lumber promotion, ca. 1929, Washington (State). Source
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| © IWM (D 944) |
Four Belgian children with jammy faces, London, 1940. Source
