Hi Slobodan
Nice shot of the family - I have very few along those lines, a case of the shoemakers children having to go barefoot! My wife really hated being photographed, and I found it very awkward too, standing on the wrong side of the camera. Our kids were much more used to it, as both were used as child models for local department stores, from time to time. However, I do have a lot of shots of both standing in front of a white roll holding up tickets saying 4, 4.5, 5.6, 6.3, 8 etc. etc. all the way to 32! The reason was that flash meters were not so common back then, and the metering unit I did have at the time, a huge aluminium Bowens box, was remarkable inaccurate and prone to directional holding errors. It didn't matter much with b/w which was the main studio medium for me then, and a stretched pair of arms a close enough measure for flash/subject distance (I actually used a long knotted string, and one knot was for FP3/4 and the other for TXP 120; the model held the knot to her chin, the other end of the string was attached to the flash stand - always accurate, standard setting for standard shots), but transparencies were another matter altogether with much testing required prior to shoots. That was also why I used the 'blad system indoors for colour: E6 and its earier manifestations could be processed and evaluated within hours, but my favourite, Kodachrome, took weeks! I never did use Kodachrome in 120, but someone who did has told me that it was very unreliable - probably why it went back off the market very quickly after being reintroduced.
Pools. It used to be that when I lived in Scotland, images of nice pools in foreign parts were very emotive, evocative things; having lived close to them for almost thirty years now, they seldom inspire... how familiarity can deaden perception, when the pools really remain the same, and it's us who change... and boy, how we change in thirty years. Where the hell do they go, those years? Can I have mine back, please?
Rob C