Paul, I think our life experiences change as well. I look back now as a father or potential grandfather at these little babies. I think of my aunt behind the camera, recently married and within 1 year having her own daughter. It is what the picture shows and what it makes you think thru. It is time travel - to meet yourself as a child or your Aunt as a young adult. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
