Tag Archives: Willceau

The Gates of Hell

 I know that we’re basking in the dog days of summer, but Halloween is just around the corner! With October 31st in mind, I decided to take a spooky shot and see what I could do to push it a … Continue reading

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Live and in Poison

More whacky illustrative hi-jinx with my new favorite vector program Affinity Designer.

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Sharing a Cup

Ella and John Capewell share a cup while on a jaunt out-of-doors some time early in the twentieth century.

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A Memorial or a Graveyard or Both

It’s been busy lately and I’m finding myself shoveling against the tide of time so I picked this glass negative by John Capewell to run this week without the foggiest clue as to what I’m running. I didn’t have a … Continue reading

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Child of the Corn

Yes, I know I’ve gotten plenty of mileage out of the Children of the Corn joke, but it’s almost Halloween and photographer John Capewell used this field of corn as a backdrop for a number of his photographs.

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Blue Baby

This looks to be a photograph of John B. Capewell’s eldest son, John, Jr. The negative is a little worst for wear, and it had turned a yellow brown which when inverted in Photoshop, turns an interesting blue.

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On the Rocks

Here’s another of John Capewell’s glass negatives that I thought I had previously published, but I guess I haven’t. It looks to be John’s brother James George Capewell perched upon the rocks up at what I assume is Niagara Falls.

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