How’s this for a close-up look

RICHARD Sebo and Vern McCallum are pleased that a big effort to get the Vern McCallum Collection online has finally happened. The laptop in front of them shows off a feature of the website – it is of the picture that started the collection, a scene in Digby of which a little piece was Mr McCallum’s grandfather’s wheelwright shop, here magnified to more than double its photographic size. Picture: KAREN HODGE 210615kh01

By Chalpat Sonti

June 18, 2021 | 9:13 AM

ZOOM might in these coronavirus pandemic days be almost exclusively associated with software that enables online meetings, but its original meaning holds truer than ever for the digital version of the South West’s premier collection of historical photographs.

The Vern McCallum Collection has finally gone online, the result of three years of hard work, and the odd glitch overcome along the way.