Image Credit:
Baby Brownie
Film Size: 127
Shutter: Single speed
Lens: Fixed meniscus
Dates: 1934-1941
Original List Price: $1.00
Click shutter then a flash
captured moments while they dash
beyond where we can touch the sky
held immobile for all time.
Shutter flash then a click
again the world a stiffened stick
as we pull albums from our mind
reviewing times back then
we find
nostalgia is
a word we know
where visions form
the life we show
as every footstep we have stepped
are painted travels we have kept.
Author notes
My Charms
Frog (taken)
Scarab
Koi
Victorian Shoe
Gondola (taken)
I am claiming the Camera
A contest entry
- Simply Charming by Pamela A Lamppa.
1000 points, ended May 10, 2008, 10 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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A veritable "snapshot" of a poem! Well done!
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LOL Thank you. I did have fun with this one.
So pleased you enjoyed. ~Pamela 
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I inherited one of those [actually a bunch of old cameras] and I just loved the pictures the took... They quit developing it just about everywhere so we did it ourselves... What a fun trip down memory lane!!!
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Ithica
Thank you. I am pleased for your comment here. A splash from the past. I remember my little brownie... 
~Pamela
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Wow I think my granddad had one of those cameras. Nice write, boy does that bring back some memories. Thanks for sharing.
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ckwriter69
Thank you. I remember these. It was my first camera handed down to me from my Mom, to her from her father. Kind of nostalgic when I think on it now. Sure wish I still had it.
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lol this brought back memories lol That look like the same camera my grandparesnts used lol
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Jeff
A splash from the past. LOL Thank you so much. ~Pamela
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Oh... What a great job you have done here.
I love the historical begining and then you
wonderful flow... Outstanding Pam
Delila
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Delila
Thank you so much. ~Pamela
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Pam this is brilliant. I loved the flow, this was excellent.
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Kiran
Thank you. So pleased you enjoyed this one. ~Pamela
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Wow ...
How this took me down memory lane ... And is this not what the charms are all about? Chaining our memories?
So very well written! Thank you for this charm.
Love
Myra
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myrataal
Thank you so much. My mother got this camera from her father when she was young and passed it down to me when I was a kid. It was my first camera. Sure wish I still had it...
Can you imgine, only $1.00 for it? Ahhh. A memory for certain.
I am pleased you enjoyed this one. Thank you again and thank you for helping to build our charm bracelet. ~Pamela
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Gondola.. please..
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For you, a Gondola it is. ENJOY!
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A baby Brownie! How cunning is that! I love this charming ode to travel photography. It is true that the memories stick when you click.
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Thank you my friend. Yes indeed, this is just such a memory for me. My mother received this camera as her first camera from her father when she was a kid. She handed down to me and it was my first camera then.
Such great memories came from that baby brownie.
Thank you again. ~Pamela
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I claim that frog!
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I KNEW IT! Can't wait! Write away!
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