My father, Steven Desmond, died when I was a young child after the death of my mother. I remember when I was little and we lived in Ocean City Md, he would ride his bike with me on the back of it up and down the boardwalk. He loved the outdoors, and he loved to fish.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...