Dear Photograph

I was just on the White Elephant blog, and this post made me think of the website Dear Photograph, which I recently discovered thanks to the Lake Jane blog and I was sucked into it immediately. People submit photographs taken in front of the photo's original background, and the messages that accompany the pictures are just so touching.

Dear Photograph,
Over 25 years later, the house is still blue and my mother is still looking over me.
Alexandra

We love old photos here at the shop (you don't say...can you use sarcasm on yourself? I'm not sure...anyways), they're pretty much everywhere you look - merchandised with jewelry, inside our scavenged vintage lockets, on the walls in frames, in the little care packages we send with webstore orders, so I could literally spend hours browsing through these pictures. What makes these all the more fascinating is that we get a peak at the lives of the people photographed thanks to the bits of context provided by the messages, whereas most of the time when we come across old pictures we're left to imagine their histories.

Dear Photograph,
Who knew 20 years ago my little tagalong Harry would still be looking
upward…now he’s an air traffic controller!
Love, Kristian

Dear Photograph,
Remember when we decided to see if shrink wrap would hold my brother Joe to a tree? This made us laugh so much!
Annie Enderle