> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://onemanandhisblog.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Reject the First
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/11/reject_the_firs/
- Published: 2004-11-13T19:16:46.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:02:51.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

![Adam's first day at Dollar](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2004/11/reject1.jpg?resize=300%2C226 "Adam's first day at Dollar")This weekend, amongst various other chores, I’ve been transferring my old photographs from the ancient sticky back/clear front albums they’ve been in since the early 1980s. The quality of most of the pictures is, to say the least, variable. That’s partially because I was only nine or 10 when most of the photos were taken, and partially because of the frankly rubbish Instamatic camera I was using back then. However, until I reached the end of the second album, I kept everything because, despite the lack of aesthetic memory, they’re valuable records of my past.

After that, I discovered handful of picture which just had no redeeming virtues at all. Or, at least, they made no sense in an album context. So, I pulled them out, dumped them on my desk and carried on.

Looking at them again, they do have a redeeming value after all. Looked at in isolation, detached from the rest of the album they have a strange abstract charm, that I could have some fun with. So, \*One Man & His Blog\*\*\*\*\*proudly presents the Reject Series: photographs that didn’t make the replacement album cut.

The rules are simple:

1. The photo is scanned and then destroyed.
2. The photo can be modified in Photoshop as much as I like.
3. The results will be posted here, and then to [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/sets/37557/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

The first picture, which you can see above, was part of a set taken at my first day at a new school, [Dollar Academy](http://www.dollaracademy.org.uk/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). There are pictures of kids on my street in their new uniforms and this, disastrous, picture of me taken by one of my contemporaries, I guess. That’s the regulation school hymn book in my pocket. As part of an album, it’s a dismal failure. As a photo in its own right I find it rather intriguing.