Crit with Simon / Further Improvements

I decided I needed a different perspective on the project - someone with a more detached view on the family aspect too.

I booked a chat with Simon and we had a look at the project and came up with some ideas to keep it moving forward and branching outwards / into more interesting realms.

• Bring in the actual photos for the presentation. We agreed that the tangibility of 50 year old photos cannot be replaced by hi-res scans.
• We also decided that the family connection was the most significant aspect of the project and thus it should be emphasised, perhaps by contacting other family members to get their take on the collection / Peter's life with cars.

Selected Images from the Collection

I knew Peter had kept photos of some of his cars (I remember seeing them in a previous house of his) but I never expected the photos to be of such high quality and relate to such important moments in my Grandparents' lives.

Here are just a few from the collection, starting in 1955 through to '88. I'll put some more on later.

Writing About a Relative: Tone is Difficult

I've started the wording accompanying the photo archive of the cars and have encountered some problems - namely what tone to use when writing about / for an elderly relative.

I have written and re written countless paragraphs trying to get the tone just right, with the results ranging from faintly mocking to obituary-like. 

It's actually a really interesting subject for me, how tone differs in context and how important the resulting choices are on the final piece.