-- -----Original Message----- -- From: Ann Sanfedele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:59 PM -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- -- > > Christian -- Skofteland wrote: -- > > -- > > > I didn't save my "poor shots" when I shot transparency film. -- > > > Right into the -- > > > trash! How has the magic gone? What's magic about keeping -- > > > crappy pictures? -- > -- > Pack rat here.I keep everything.Even the botched IR -- developing i did at home.Dont ask me -- > why,but i -- > know if i throw it out some magazine will do a call for -- bad IR shots to publish.lol -- > I also keep all my blown digital shots,but so far only a few. -- > Dave -- -- I keep virtually all my slides and certainly all my -- negatives - tossing very little -- -- Not just my packratness but to some extent even the lousy -- shots have info on -- them that can help in identifying the better shots... -- -- OF course, when I first got home from 60 rolls of film -- shooting across the country, -- I'd pretty much hate everything - even the ones I thought -- were "good" . And I never -- throw out dups of shots that I like. -- -- The slides stay in their little boxes numbered and dated in -- steel cabinets. The TX negs -- are in looseleaf binders with contacts, the prints from long -- trips are organized but alas -- must have a couple thousand of 4 x 5's that are disorganzied -- because I've changed -- how I organized. I'm a mess at this point... -- -- There is very little that I toss that I've acquired, photo -- or otherwise. :) -- -- (just as Amita or Cesar or Rob S who have seen the debris) -- -- annsan
Annsan, I would not call it debris in the least. I felt very comfortable there. It was a 'home', not the antiseptic nothing of character that cannot be found in a catalog place that people strive for. I really enjoyed seeing your photos up on the wall. The place was you as well it should be. Hope you can make it to my place at some point... No debris at her place, Cesar Panama City, Florida
