A bit late, but...there's a fascination in looking at old photos. It
gives us a chance to remember folks who are gone, to reminisce about the
past and somehow regain our youth.
"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all
through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same.
How nice to look at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years
ago. You see them as you remember them. But, as people live on, they
change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."
Albert Einstein
Bob Sullivan wrote:
Rick,
We went to my 93 year old aunt's funeral in Boston this weekend.
We spent time with my cousin, her daughter, looking at old photos.
There were no slides, but plenty of snapshots with old Brownie cameras.
There was lots of trash, but some pearls too.
I think we'll go back out this summer and shoot some copies.
(This side of my family always did photos and I appreciate it now.)
(I saw a little album of 5 or 6 - 2.5 inch square B&W photos.
I recognized myself at 6 years old, taken on a central Illinois farm.
Also pictures of my brother at 1.5 years and my sister at 6 months
on the same farm... all taken by my aunt on a hot day.)
Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote:
My mother is having an (ahem) advanced birthday next week, and I went digging
around for some old photos.
Well, there are thousands and thousands of photos in this house, prints here,
slides there, the negatives someplace else. Slides from about 1992 onwards are
fairly systematically filed in slide pages in loose leaf notebooks, but there
are still scads of prints and negs, because sometimes (for some reason) I shot
print film.
This reminded me that a key advantage of digital is that it is tidy. Instead
of shoeboxes and closets and drawers full of photos, things are neatly stored
on hard drives, catalogued by date in Lightroom.
It also reminded me of a key disadvantage of digital. I pulled out slides and
negs I shot in 1965, and they're a bit dusty and faded, but viewable with a
light box and loupe, and printable. Will anybody be able to view my DNGs in
2051?
Then there was the weird time travel of old family photos, and shots from old
family vacations and holidays and homes.
Makes me feel old. I think I'll go to bed.
Rick
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