[Leica] Photogs in a Digitally Abreviated World

[alaxsxaq at gmail.com (Glenn Stauffer)]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:40:40 +0000, Frank Dernie
<Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I massively regret the photographs thrown away by my grandmother when
> she moved house. what was banal to her would have been of abiding
> interest to me and our descendants. Funnily enough it is the family
> snaps and pictures of the everyday things and life which are lasting.
> Pictures of rows of shops, the market, the family at home and so forth.
> The artsy fartsy stuff is of much less lasting interest IMHO.
> Frank
> 

Exactly right about that.  I have piles of old family snapshots that
are a source of endless fascination.  In the faces, the dress of the
people, and the look of their surroundings, I have a connection to the
past that I cannot find another way now that the people who could tell
me stories of that time are gone.  Many of the pictures I take are
about capturing a moment in time.  The street shots and shots of faces
and places at a moment in time will hold my interest long after the
photos of splotches of paint on an old door have worn out in print and
in my mind.