Another thing to get my hands around: photos

[jducoeur]

Right. It occurs to me that of the two of us, Jane was the one who had even the foggiest clue of what we have in our monumental archive of miscellaneous photos. (Both physical and virtual.) That's a long-term project to play with.

I'm put in mind of this because they're looking for photos of Countess Mom, and I know the one I'd like to find -- the legendary "Will the Real Queen of the East please stand up?" picture. This happened at TFYC (the aforementioned camp of Easterners voluntarily crammed into a small group) -- we were sitting around one afternoon, and realized that we had something like six women with long hair hair and glasses, currently wearing a simple blue dress. The resulting photo is slightly comical, and a fond memory now that we've lost at least two of the ladies in it. But it predated digital cameras, so if I have a copy, it's a print buried somewhere...

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[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

That is something I would definitely be interested in helping with.

[jducoeur]

Hmm -- hadn't even thought about help, but that's an area where it might be useful. Help me remember that: probably won't even start for another month or two (I still have bigger fish to fry), but I suspect that the assistance will be welcome when the time comes...

[russkay.livejournal.com]

Photos. Omigawd.

When Harriet was dying, one of her final wishes was to organize the family photos into a couple of albums that Alexx and I could have and enjoy. What she actually accomplished was to tear apart every photo album we had and rearrange the now-separate pages into some sequence that may have been meaningful to her in her distorted reality, but was incomprehensible to me. She extracted a promise of sorts from a friend to help with the scrapbooking ... and then she died. (It's worth explaining that I was a professional photographer at one point in my life, and most of the photos were slides or b/w negatives that I was no longer equipped to print or color prints with negatives long gone).

I didn't touch the pile (basically an entire file drawer's worth) for a few years. Finally I went through and picked out all the pictures I wanted. I sent them off to Scancafe.com and had them digitized and finally started assembling them into large-format collages and assemblages (via Snapfish.com). Without having them digitized so they were now all on one DVD, the job would have been near impossible. I've had enough experience with consumer-grade photo scanners to know that they weren't the answer. At 30 cents each, Scancafe did a marvelous job ... plus, all the original formats (slides, negatives, prints of all sizes) were now unified as digital jpegs, and dealing with them has become ever-so-much easier.

[jducoeur]

Hmm. Interesting point, and I'll take that as a suggestion. When the time comes, I should think about how much should be digitized...