Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: memories

Thoughts on digital files vs. prints for archiving photographs

My thoughts on archiving your images, and why your goal should be to see them survive your lifetime but not more.

13 October 2021
Photographic holiday memories: A story from my book, A Place to Start

A story of a Polaroid camera for Christmas.

16 December 2020
Memories from before my family came apart

Photographs and memories from my family before it came apart.

4 November 2020
Brant’s and South Bend’s Miami Village

A memory of Brant’s, a five-and-dime store, part of Miami Village on the south side of South Bend, Indiana.

26 June 2020
single frame: Delmont 88

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13 August 2019
Postwar memories on Kodachrome

I scanned in a giant cache of Kodachromes that belong to my wife’s mother. They’re from the late 1940s and early 1950s, and boy do the colors still pop. Check some of them out here!

19 March 2018
Dad was always there

A father’s very presence in his child’s life can create lasting security. My dad was a hard man and he left me with some issues I had to work out as an adult — but his steady presence in my life has always served me well.

14 March 2018
Why I stay on Facebook even though I don’t enjoy it much

I’d leave Facebook for good were it not for moments of real joy such as the one this photo, posted there, brought.

12 March 2018
I miss my father’s voice

I miss Dad’s voice the most. It was big, deep, rich.

21 February 2018
The sounds of Christmas

Bing Crosby and Johnny Mathis form the core of my family’s Christmas music. It’s been that way for three generations now!

22 December 2017
Memories lost, memories created, memories kept

I don’t dwell much on memories of my first marriage, which was destructive to all of us. But a few photographs of me with my sons there remind me that there were good times. And then after the divorce, I focused on building good memories.

5 June 2017
Photographic holiday memories

A rerun, from 2008 and 2012, as this Christmas nears. Now with new photos. My grandparents always owned the latest Polaroid cameras, and they passed on that tradition in 1977 when they bought my brother and me Polaroid Super Shooter cameras for Christmas. When I unwrapped the gift, I remember thinking how cool the box…

23 December 2016