HaarFager's photos

This was my Grandmother, Martha Lolove Garrett Wright, with her doll and baby carriage. She was born in 1903, so it was probably taken before 1910.

Dad as a young boy saluting somebody.

This was probably taken at the County Fair, because there are a lot of pictures like this of my Mother, some by herself, or with her Mother. Mom was the baby of the family, so that's probably why there are so many photo booth pictures like this - for a long time, it was just her and her mother because her brothers and sisters had grown up, married and moved away.

This was my mom's mother and father, Martha Lolove Garrett and John Dewey William McKinley Wright, when they got married on July 30th, 1924. Lolove was 21 at the time, and McKinley was 24. I scanned this from the original negative. It was probably taken with a box camera of some sort. In those days, when a couple got married, their family and friends would give them a "shivaree," which consisted of banging pots and shooting guns among other things. You can see a washtub with a club on it at the bottom of the picture, so I believe these two were given a shivaree.

This was my parents on their wedding night, August 7th, 1959. The round end table on the far right belonged to my Dad's grandmother. I inherited it and have it in my living room.

This was my parents cutting the cake on their wedding night of August 7th, 1959. They had an outdoor wedding.

This was my parents on their wedding night, August 7th, 1959. They're standing with the Maid of Honor, the Best Man and the minister that married them. They had an outdoor wedding. My Dad liked the song "A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" by Marty Robbins, so I'll bet that's why he wore one at his wedding.

This was my Great Aunt and Uncle, on my mother's side, Loreas and Vernon Humphries, taken in December 1969. Most likely on Christmas Day or the day after. They were posing in front of my family's house in Safford, Arizona. Every year at Christmas, my family would either go to their house in Las Cruces, New Mexico or they would come to our house. Vernon was quite a character and when he was younger, he used to be a chuckwagon cook on cattle drives in the early 1900s.

This was my mother's Aunt, and her mother's sister, Loreas, with her first husband Reno Sapp. I'm pretty sure it's a wedding picture. Reno seemed pretty flashy and I think that's probably why Loreas married him. The marriage didn't last and Loreas married again later on. This was taken in Roswell, New Mexico sometime in the 1930s.

A bench overlooking our local reservoir, which was frozen over solid one winter. Taken with a Nikon D3000 DSLR on March 2nd, 2015.

Some celery I was dicing up.

I took several different images of the crescent moon last night, May 11th, 2024, at different focal lengths. Here they are side by side to compare the difference between the sizes.

An uncropped image of the moon, taken last night, May 11th, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR, with an old Minolta-mount manual focus zoom lens.

Last night, May 10th, 2024, there had been some solar flares that were fairly large and this caused the conditions to be right for the Aurora Borealis lights to be seen as far south as my area here in Southern Illinois. These streams of light were constanly moving and shifting and looked pretty amazing. It's real rare that these lights show this far south like they did.

Last night, May 10th, 2024, there had been some solar flares that were fairly large and this caused the conditions to be right for the Aurora Borealis lights to be seen as far south as my area here in Southern Illinois. These streams of light were constanly moving and shifting and looked pretty amazing. It's real rare that these lights show this far south like they did.

My third of three step-daughters, Tanya. She was 9 years old and she's showing of the Gameboy she got for Christmas that year. Camera: Canon Sure Shot Owl Film: Kodak Gold 100 35mm Aperture: f/8 (fixed) Shutter: 1/100th of a second (fixed) Date: December 25th, 1998 Location: De Soto Illinois, U.S.A. Canon Kodak Gold 100 Christmas 1998 DeSoto 24ff

Another one of my step-daughters, Kelsey. Taken at the St. Louis Zoo, in St. Louis, Missouri. Camera: Fuji Film Smart Shot Deluxe Lens: Fujinon 33mm Film: Kodak Gold 100 35mm Aperture: f/8 (fixed) Shutter: 1/100th of a second (fixed) Date: October 31st, 1999 Location: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Smart Shot Deluxe Kodak Gold 100 St. Louis Zoo 01ff

This was Savannah, one of my step-daughters, trying on her Easter dress before Easter 1999. She was five years old in this picture. Taken on December 3rd, 1998, with my Fuji Film Smart Shot Deluxe 35mm point and shoot camera.