Old-Time Photography

Tonight I decided to write a follow-up to a post that I wrote in the early days of Braman’s Wanderings.

I also decided to add this to my Old-Time Photography series. If I were to add a sub-title to this post it would be Playful or Posed.

The original post where my idea came from was titled Eating Watermelon.

How to eat a Watermelon

The star of the post was my Grandma’s cousin Norma Jean. This picture is very playful and was definitely not posed. You can read more about this picture and my thoughts about watermelon in the post: Eating Watermelon

Along with this playful picture of Norma Jean I decided to share a posed picture of her. Playful or Posed 🙂

Here Norma Jean is posing for a picture. Perhaps it is her school picture as it was taken in 1940 when she was about 17 years old. I really like this picture. Her hair is beautiful with the stylish ringlets of hair and I really love her expression.

Here is a picture of my Grandma at about the same age. She was a little bit older, so this was taken about 4-5 years earlier.

My Grandma looks a little more serious in her picture.

Can you tell that they are cousins?

Which picture do you like better, the Playful or Posed?

Steven