Old photos.

During Republic Day Parade and march past , along with the contingents of the Army , Navy and the Air Force , contingents of boys and girl cadets of the three wings of the National Cadet Corps , also participate .

The NCC contingents are made up of cadets from all the 27 States and the 7 Union Territories of  India.Therefore selection to represent the State / Union territory is very competitive and tough . Also getting selected to represent the State / Union Territory is a matter of great pride . All this is very well known to almost every one .What is not so well known is that आजी had represented State of Madhya Pradesh in NCC Contingent during the Republic day march past in the year 1966. 


We all are very proud of her :-)

Girls Cadet NCC Contingent , Republic Day Parade 1966

Recognise आजी ?

Digitising old photos.

During the ' barasa '( बारस ) of Ajeet a we got a click III camera to record the various events .It used to take a film roll of 12 exposures. Being a box camera it had no flash , no focal length or any other type of settings which are generally associated with taking good & beautiful photos . That never discouraged or deterred us from having a ball and using it left right and center.That camera was used very extensively .We decided that we will expose one film roll every month . From the 12 contact prints , select the best exposures and order enlarged copies and put them in albums .This resulted in gradual increase in albums .  Even though over a period of time The Click III has been replaced by better cameras we continued with the practice .Today we have 34 of these albums . On an average each album has 108 photos, so we have at least 3400 of them :-) The latest no 34  has photos of our America Trip in 2009   Somehow after that ,  for one reason or the other , album 35 or more have not come up .
The Click III faithfully recorded the growing up of Ajeet , Anuj and all the happy and important events for the next 11 long years till 1984 when I got a canon colour camera from UK.
Dadoo  presented us with a digital camera in  November 2007 before our visit to Andaman Nicobar Islands.This was lost at San Francisco. Got another canon while staying with Bhupen . That was lost during our  Kashmir trip . Mummy then presented me with an Olympus camera which has not been lost till date. All these were digital cameras so I learned Picassa , web albums etc and  there after all photos are in web .
How ever photos taken by click III and other cameras using film rolls ,  up to 1984 and included and the albums were  not degitised and put on the web . I decided to do so . Albums no 24 till no 33 are all on net . Decided to start from Album no 1 . But Dadoo suggested why not the marriage album , which we had numberd as  00.
The album was in a mess . The butter paper had stuck to the photos and could not be removed .Tried to remove the stuck paper wherever  I could . The process of these efforts was caught by Mummy.

Here is the sample of  results of my efforts . Top photo without restoration , below that after I did whatever I could :-)


























This is preview . Hopefully album number 00 will be on the net by the evening or tomorrow. :-)