Here’s some nostalgia in an old-fashioned kitchen:
Were things as good as they seemed? The old days are often shown on TV and in movies and they look great. Everything is done in a grand, traditional, decent way as well as being very professionally filmed. However, imagine working a twelve hour day in one of these. Lots of damp towels and sheets therefore lots of moisture and no modern air conditioning systems to compensate. Every single function in this large kitchen would be manual. Cooking, cleaning and ironing were hard manual tasks.
Mostly Monochrome 
Great shot, love the lighting, tones…And thanks for the ‘like’ on my blog.
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Old days seams to be better and better the older you get – I will say it is all hard work at that time – to live with your work like washing others clothes was very hard – but also life was a bit easier than today – I think in my childhood, children did know what to do and especially after school. I guess many could disagreeing but – as long as you remember the good thing then all is good, isn’t it? – Thanks for sharing !!!
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Beautiful. I like to look at it and be glad I live today, even with all our faults, still there were faults then too.
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I must be getting very old. I remember much of this at my grandma’s – who taught me to print (contact) on paper by gaslight – water heated in the copper (fire underneath), posser, rubbing on the washboard, etc; wish we’d have thought of taking pix other than just family ‘snaps’ then.
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Perhaps you remember calling it the scullery?
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Wonderful shot.
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Excellent shot of a kitchen I’m thankful isn’t mine. 🙂 Plenty things in “the good old days” weren’t.
janet
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Exactly
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That’s great- great tones here too (shadows, highlights, etc.)
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Thanks, it was dark and I went down a stop to increase the drama.
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That’s one of my favourite tricks. :0)
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I think it helps having a heavy camera which avoids the shakes
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If I ever get out of college (one of these days…?) I want to explore film. For me, there’s just no comparison in quality and texture. Photoshop can only do so much- I’ve spent years trying to reproduce a similar textural grain (and shadows, etc.) that a film camera would produce, monochromatically speaking, and am only able to jack up my ISO for added grain and push my highlights and shadows by tweaking my exposure in-camera, but still, it’s not the same. There’s just no replicating it completely. I’m head over heels in love with film though. Maybe someday…! Lucky dog, you. :0)
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As good Digital is getting it just doesn’t look the same as film especially monochrome. Would live to see what you do with it.
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Great shot and well portrayed.
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