Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 :-)