Here’s a picture of the photographer John Capewell of Westville, New Jersey sitting with his wife Ella in the shade of a tree. John and Ella look very young in this picture compared to others in the collection. I assumed it was a picture from when they were courting, and I was going to title this post Young Sweethearts, but I had a closer look at the negative.
They are both wearing wedding rings and are making a point of displaying them for posterity.
Here’s the whole glass negative:
As with all of the photographs in the Capewell Collection, I placed the 5″ x 7″ glass negative on a lightbox and shot them with a digital camera locked down on a tripod. The “processing†was done digitally on a Mac using Adobe Photoshop.
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This is one of my favorite photos in this series.
I missed the obvious! Thanks, Ann! Maybe they were sweethearts and the photo is older than I thought! The matching rings are strang though.
Joe ~ wedding rings??? Ella has a ring on her right hand and John has a ring on his left hand. I’ve known some Europeans to wear the wedding band on the right (possibly Austria) but I would think that husband and wife would wear their rings on the same hand.