PORT TOWNSEND – When Ann Welch was growing up, she always intrigued with the little room off the bathroom of her grandfather’s house on Lawrence Street.
In the room was a black box, but it wasn’t until after her grandfather died that she saw what was inside – hundreds of negatives of photographs he had taken in the Olympic Mountains, as well other places on the Olympic Peninsula, in the first two decades of the last century.
“It was a huge collection,” she said.
Now, using computer software and her own photographic skills, she has brought the images out of the past and matched them with digital shots of the same view.
Last week, she gave her first public showing of her and her grandfather’s photographs, fulfilling a long-time dream.
“It started as a passion,” she said.