[Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 52: Christmas in Alicante

[Ken Carney]

Ted,
My mother-in-law's 100th birthday was Sunday.  She was an avid 
photographer and gave me her b&w negatives (35mm to 120) and slides 
(Kodachrome) from mid-1940's onward.  So, with some judicious editing I 
scanned them all and put them on an iPad for her birthday present.  I 
have read that Kodachromes are more resistant to fading than others, but 
not so much in this case.  I was able to make some decent scans with 
VueScan and color restoration.  The b&w negs, as you might imagine, were 
fine.  Then, I have my photos from her 100th which I put on a website, 
and then 3,000 more photos from her nephew that I put on a website.

Some of the images I scanned were from prints, of her mother and father 
and grandfather and grandmother.  They were in amazingly good condition 
to be stored in non-archival materials.  So now I need to remove the 
negatives and slides and prints from Tupperware boxes and place in 
archival materials, to be preserved for someone who is really interested 
in the family history.  Should I also make a set of small prints and 
place in an archival album, no small job? Probably not.  My bet is that 
interested relatives (younger ones) will have no problem in migrating 
digital files and web images.  If they are not interested then the 
images will be lost anyway.

Ken
Whose grandchildren will probably say, oh that's a cool photo of our 
great-grandma.  Didn't grandpa had to have some kind of separate device 
to access the internet?

On 1/2/2015 7:37 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
> Nathan Wajsman SHOWED:
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 52: Christmas in Alicante
>
> I am a totally secular Jew, and my wife is an equally non-practicing
> Catholic, which of course does not stop us from celebrating Christmas. And
> especially this year it was nice because both of our adult children came
> home to the otherwise empty nest. Be prepared for a lot of cuteness and good
> things:
>
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=1318
>
> Miraculously, I did not gain any weight at all despite all this eating and
> drinking. I guess the 1-2 hours spent pedaling in the hills every day did
> the trick.
>
> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. I started
> doing the PAW in 2001, inspire by Kyle Cassidy on the LUG. So this weekly
> blog completes my 14th year of doing this. <<<<
>
> ===========================================================
>
> Hi Nathan,
> Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! :-) I love this kind of photo coverage of
> family life!
>
> When your children, Moses & Monica are elders, parents themselves? They will
> have a goldmine treasure of photographs as you've shown of the family life
> as it is and was when they were kids!
>
> HOWEVER?
> Do you have a family album to pass along of family life as we've seen your
> children grow? I bet we're all guilty of this photo offense? But our parents
> weren't!
>
> We shoot tons of photos of life around us, families or otherwise?  BUT! WE
> DON'T MAKE 4X6 PRINTS AND PUT THEM IN A PHOTO ALBUM!" Our parents did that.
> No?
>
> Folks from the days of the Brownie Box camera and other types, the families
> nearly all had some kind of "photo album!" TODAY? I bet most of us leave the
> edited images on the hard-drive and show them on the computer screen. And
> yes with some kind of "live comments" as we click them by.
>
> But when the out-dated computer no longer flashes photo beauties on the
> screen for the grand children to see they will have nothing! I have a couple
> of albums from my family and my late wife Irene's family that go back to
> 1925. Yep life sure looked different in those days.
>
> So why don't we make an album for our children or their children to look
> back on the days when we were just "young folks ourselves?" I'm not going to
> offer any reasons simply because the computer, digital and quite probably a
> thousand other dumb-ass excuses would be offered!
>
> But to many of the "ELDERS OF THE CREW" you have time, maybe not much? But
> why not, as you offer your FFlower images to the screen. Print a "best of?"
> or "Best of Billie?" Or whatever? Then when you have several done? Stick
> them in an album.
>
> That my dear friends is my number one "NEW YEAR RESOLUTION!" reaching back,
> oh dear me, more years into the old boxes of negs and slides I don't really
> want to! But pull edit and print an album and once a month, stick the prints
> in each album by the year if possible.
>
> So my friend Nathan you have such a marvellous selection of family photo
> history as we have seen over the years. May I throw down the gauntlet with a
> challenge of producing a family album 2015? :-)  OK good buddy I just threw
> it down! So now we have to get cracking!
>
> OH! By the way? The challenge is open to all! :-) You really didn't think
> I'd leave you out did you?:-)
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
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