Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 06/21/03 3:44 AM, Eric at ericm@pobox.com wrote: > I'd love to be able to get my hands on well preserved B&W negatives of my > early childhood. Or of my parents when they were younger. You know, I had a nephew die back in Sept. '99. Last year I took all the photos I had of him, and asked my mother to get all the photos she and my brother (his father) had and send them to me. I spent many, many hours scanning and Photoshopping those photos. Then I used iPhoto on my Mac to upload the photos to Apple and had a book printed on Archival museum quality paper, hard bound in a linen book. (13 pages and about 40 photos for $60). The photos covered my nephew's life from the day he was born to the family trip they took a few weeks before he died. It was a close call, but I gave it to my brother an sister-in-law this past Christmas. My sister cried, but said she loved it. My parents, who were close to him, asked me for a copy as well. Some of the photos were taken just for fun, or to test a new camera or lens, or a new film. Some I took simply out of boredom. Not to mention all the "official" photos at family events and his birthdays. A lot of wonderful photos that in context said a lot about his life. Photos in some cases people wouldn't miss as long as he was around. It's hard in the present to figure out what will be important to history. Digital or film, we need to keep everything that's close to useable in some future context. Except of ex-wives, of course. :-P - -- Eric Carlsbad, CA "It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait." - -Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html