[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/1/2021: a blast from a very distant past, or "when I had hair"

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Definitely a keeper, Nathan. Make sure you write the details on the back 
of the original, as I have to scratch my head in bewilderment looking at 
some of the old family shots.
Douglas


On 14/01/2021 20:45, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> One of the many gifts Santa brought my wife this Christmas was an Epson 
> scanner designed to scan standard drugstore family photos in bulk. You pop 
> in a stack of photos (up to 30, I think), press a button, and let it rip. 
> My wife has long wanted to digitize the many old photos we have, and she 
> loves the scanner?for once, a piece of equipment that actually works as 
> advertised. Among the old photos she came across this gem from 1978, 
> before we had even met. It was my senior year of high school in Denmark, 
> and I was taking Russian as my third foreign language (English and German 
> were mandatory, but you could choose Russian, French or Spanish as the 
> third one). It was customary to make a weeklong trip to the country whose 
> language you were studying, so we went for a week to Moscow and Leningrad 
> (today St. Petersburg). I have no idea who took this photo on the plane 
> from Copenhagen to Moscow, and it is technically horrible, but it is still 
> a nice reminder of the time when I was young and the world looked like an 
> open road:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mTzn2Pr/A
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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