One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
alexander castillo
Photographer and dreamer fascinated by the endless possibilities every moment has to offer.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
Closed - after 77 years in the same family
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In 1933 Percy Bell (30) - a butcher - moved out of the smoggy, noisy, dirty confines of London. He came to the heart of Metro-Land to start a new life with his wife and baby son.He acquired a brand new shop in a parade of shops just down the road from Rayners Lane tube station. Life was good out here in the suburbs, no smog, fresh air, country walks, wide leafy avenues of neat TF Nash designed houses and beautiful Art Deco architecture.
Later on his son - Henry - left school at 14 and started to learn the butchers trade from his father and eventually they ran the shop together. Henry met a girl, fell in love and married. They had two sons - Michael and Harry. Michael died aged 9 months. Harry followed the family tradition of being a butcher.
Harry went on to marry and have two boys and a girl. Only one - Michael - went into the family business.
Last week Michael and his father, Harry, sold their last sausage. They had to sell the business because there is no more money in being a small, independent, quality butcher. The supermarkets have slowly encroached into their territory and lured the fickle customers away.
I, and many others, will miss their cheery banter, the cups of tea, the Monday morning post-mortem of how well Chelsea did or didn’t do at the weekend, no more hot toddies or mulled wine at Christmas whilst waiting to pick up the festive meat or toasted Hot Cross Buns at Easter. It is all gone now, another small fragment of the community gone, banished to local history and folklore.
Harry has taken early retirement and Michael is unemployed. Nobody wants butchers anymore, not traditional ones anyway. Butchers who actually know meat, the various cuts and what to do with it and know exactly where it came from. They are now dinosaurs.
Slowly but surely all the wonderful, beautiful things that made Metro-Land a nice place to live are being chipped away and I for one will not be sorry to leave now.
Requiem for a way of life.
Pass the Kleenex…………………………..
Ferris Wheel and Main Street Pier
Boardwalk in Daytona Beach, Florida
Pentax K1000/Kodak BW400CN
Dreams of La Habana
St. Augustine, Florida
Holga 120S/Kodak 400NC
TheDailyCity.com Mobile Art Show
Third Thursday Downtown Orlando
This photo is of the kissing booth for charity outside the thedailycity.com mobile art show. For one dollar you could either kiss Medusa or the redneck pig man. TheDailyCity.com Mobile Art Show is a rented Uhaul truck that is obviously completely mobile and the brainchild of Mark Baratelli. Mark is the creator and editor of thedailycity.com, a local culture blog about the city of Orlando, Florida. On this third Thursday the art of Karen Russell was on display in the Mobile Art Show. Check out her work at thedaytimedoldrums.com.
bridgettesxo asked: Do you work from home or have a studio where you develop your photos? Really like your vision for things.
Thank you for the kind words. At the moment I have been getting most of my photos developed and printed at a lab because I have been using C41 film which is very difficult to develop at home but all of my non C41 stuff is developed by me.
Grace Methodist Church
St. Augustine, Fl
Holga 120S/Kodak 400NC
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And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
or driven to its knees
but it’s all right, it’s all right
for we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
road we’re traveling on
I wonder what’s gone wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
or driven to its knees
but it’s all right, it’s all right
for we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
road we’re traveling on
I wonder what’s gone wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong
—
American Tune
Paul Simon
Carousel in the Sky
Downtown Disney
Holga 120S/Kodak 400NC
Untitled Portrait
Pentax K1000/Kodak BW400CN Film
Peas and Carrots
Pentax K1000/Kodak BW400CN
Early Morning On The Boardwalk
Daytona Beach, Florida
Cathedral Place St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Florida
Water Lillies In The Park
Ormond Beach, Florida
About
I like to take pictures. It is as simple as that. I could go on and give this long rant about how I want to capture the soul of everything and how much I love light but that would only be part of the truth. I just really enjoy being behind the camera making pictures and capturing moments whether I am using an old film camera or shooting digital. The cameras I presently own and use are a Holga 120S from the 80's, a Pentax K1000 from the 70's, a Vivitar 220/SL from the 70's, an Agfa Optima 1035 from the early 70's (broken at the moment) and a Canon T2i DSLR.
I hope you enjoy looking at my photographs as much as I enjoy making them.
All photographs on this tumblr blog were taken by Alexander Castillo, are the exclusive property of Alexander Castillo, and are copyrighted unless noted otherwise. Reblogging is encouraged but please always include a link back to my tumblr page and please include my name as well with any reblog. Thank you.
