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Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Steve Lundeen has the monumental – and voluntary – task of archiving his late father-in-law’s photographs.  After all, the man he is preserving on the Internet through Flickr took thousands upon thousand of photos.

Nick DeWolf was a scientist, dreamer, and voracious photographer who documented the world around him – pretty much for the heck  of it – from the 1950s until his death in 2006.   As of this writing, Steve had scanned and posted over 52,000 of Nick’s photos.  His scenes were of everything: people, buildings, cars, landscapes, boats, and tons throughout North America.  He had an eye for reality; rather than capturing what a marketing firm wanted the viewer to remember of the time, Nick had the ability to save the real world.  He saw the warmth of life and somehow harnessed it on film.  While the photos here are clearly from the late 1970s, the subject matter doesn’t look so out of date that it makes the viewer laugh.  Nick’s gift seemed to come from stealth, a long lens, and knowing where to put his subject almost without looking.

The pictures depicted here are only a few of his shots from an unnamed skateboarding championship that occurred in Aspen Colorado during the summer of 1977.  The colors are beautiful.  The subject matter so very 70s.  There are over 100 photos from the meet in Nick’s Roll # 97, compiled with others from a backyard trampoline party and a horse show.  All told, there are nearly 900 photos in that collection alone.

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

Photo Credit: Nick DeWolf

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Nick Dewolf’s Aspen Roll, 1977 – reel #97