This post was originally posted on my old steemit account, I wanted to repost here in hive to avoid loosing it

Premise: my grandfather and I

My grandfather has always been a very important person to me.
In fact, I think he influenced my life in a way that I can't even fully understand.

He was a caring father for my mother, a perfect husband for my grandmother and a wonderful person with everyone he met in his long life.

He passed out in 2015, at 84, while I was in rehab, so I couldn't be with him during his last, difficult days.

By the way, it was like he was there with me all the time.
Right before closing his eyes forever, he was under opiates to alleviate the pain so he wasn't really awake.
But my mother told me he opened his eyes and called everyone near him.
He told them he loved his life and he was happy to die that way, surrounded by his family.
Then he spoke to my mother and told her that he was proud of me.
When she reported that to me, I cried.

His life was all about traveling

He traveled a lot, during his life.
He literally wanted to explore the whole world.
At the time there were no digital cameras or smartphones, so he took a lot of wonderful photos with his analogic camera.

Between 2012 and 2015 he decided to learn how to digitalize his old photos and we bought a device to scan them and restore them.

In this post, I would like to share some of his photos with you.

Photos from a world that no longer exists - Part 1

These photos are from the 60s to the late 90s.
Most of them represent a world that no longer exists.

Some nations aren't anymore, some places are now covered with tar and houses, most of the people showed here aren't even alive anymore.

I want to post this in various parts, due to the huge amount of photos he left me.
I think this is a good way to express my gratitude to him.

Cocos Island, 1996

This is a young couple of red footed bobbies.

Buthan, 1983

This is a picture of a girl in Buthan, in 1983.
When I look at this picture, I wonder where is this girl now, what she's doing, if she's happy or not.
Makes me think a lot.

Nepal, 1979

The pictures above are from Nepal and are my favourites.
In the first one, my grandfather was looking at a Nepalese funeral.
In the second one, a young girl is carrying her little brother.

I hope you liked his work, I really love to look at the past of the world and to imagine how things were at the time.

If you want, you are free to reblog this or to show this photos to your friends.

Have a good day :)