You ask me to find a video or show me an old picture and I am searching through files I haven't looked at in years and find all sorts of things I should probably never show.. but I'm in a mood.. or mode.
I had a full blog of my pictures from my time in the Air Force. Just a few. Not many since I only had a Minolta camera at the time and it was expensive to get stuff developed so ...
But I decided it was too personal and deleted it in toto. That was a waste of two hours.
Ill post three things though....
Photographs and taking them meant a lot to me even as far back as the 1980's The problem then was there was no cheap and easy way to get a good picture. What you got were Polaroids and questionable shots.. but they are gold now.
Lots of stories to every pictures.. an interesting one for me right now is the large frame with pano shots before there were computer editors. I took sweep shots and laid them on the backboard in the best fit possible. Funny now. If I can find those pictures I can scan them in and do a real pano of it.. that would be nice.. Or I could just go do the shots again.... The top on is of the lower Bath road, next is the back sweep of building across the river Avon next to Pultney bridge in Bath and again another bit of the lower road I was/am so fond of.
My stereo was a second favorite thing. We had an informal Stereo building war going on at one time in Italy. I lost but ended up with a nice system. Loved music. I can remember when CDs started. I bought a Techniques CD player and my first two CDs were Vivaldi's recorder solos and Jethro Tull Aqualung.. it was awesome to listen to. I had to jack headphones in the front as I was in the states and away from my big stereo.
The only thing I collected... I think... Matchless candle holders. I still have them on a shelf. More too I think.. yes.. No one makes them anymore. What the deal was you put a candle in a holder in the back and the light shone out the eyes of the holder. Pretty cool.
There ya go.. a tiny bit... What my kids do with these pictures after .. hahaha.. in the bin I'm sure.. what they do with the files on hard drives.. hahaha... not a clue.. not my problem.
I am collecting up all my parents pictures and scanning those in. When I have time I will clean them up and distribute them out. So little time to spend doing that right now. Spending two hours on one photo is a bit much for me at this time. When I feel like it I pull one out and work on it.
Well all I can say is every photograph is a link or key to a memory you might not want to lose.
If you can you should scan all your family's old pictures and get as much information as you can for them... or it will just be forgotten... forever...
