there is no greater love than my love for my family

family photographs passed down to me. my grandfather took a lot of photographs during world war II while he was mostly stationed in panama. no one else in my family knows the difference between a point and shoot and film, so i'd like to credit him with my interest in photography. all of these were scanned by mattbell, who is too good of a friend to me. thanks bro. if my apartment caught on fire, these would be what i would grab on my way out the door.


(the back of the print is a love poem my grandfather wrote for my grandmother on her birthday. "a lily for my love" is the title. talk about romantic. and please note the detail and focusing in this photograph, it is beyond amazing, it is beyond beautiful, it is beyond perfect.)


1940, panama


gramps on the left


probably the coolest portrait ever taken



back from the war (look at her smile!!)

shots my grandfather took:


my aunt ellie??


i dont know who they are, but that is one hell of a wedding portrait


my aunt roanie outside the beach house, point pleasant new jersey, circa 1950's or 1960's.. ish?




yeah, my grandmother is pretty much the most beautiful woman ever.






my aunt roanie again


apparently my grandma had a wild side... haha :)


that is my daddy!!


he's definitely the cool kid alright.