Few hours I was watching old photos - my family since beginning of XX century. Grand-grand-parents, grand parents, just my mom and dad and we :) and a lot of other relatives. The whole crowd)
That old black-and-white pictures are so beautiful, it's real art. Not like modern photos. That ones are so natural, sincer...people at them are happy! When you look at them it seems like it were "happy times" for our country and for family. Time of USSR. That old photos are special - I think nowadays photographers will never be able to take pictures like that.
The whole evening I was scanning some pictures, I want to have them on my laptop.
It's like a miracle - realization that without all that people who lived about 100 years ago you wouldn't be here right now. People whom you even don't know and have never seen. People in strange clothes, strange places you've never been... But it's my history)
We have pictures which were taken even before the Revolution - it means end of XIX-beginning of XX century.
All that people lived, fell in love, participated in wars and revolutions, changed places of their living... and the result - me!!! In the middle of nowhere in 2009 year :)
It's amazing!