Slide Project: step 1 started, 2 years into it
For two years this month, since I went to digital with the Nikon D70, I’ve been saying I was going to scan my favorite slides and save hi-res digital copies of them. I have thousands of old slides in binders, and I’m thinking I could pare it down to a few hundred favorites on disk. Seemed like a good thing to do on lazy evenings around the house. Yeah, right. Who has those any more?
Anyway, tonight I decided to just get started on the slide project. No work in the evening, no email, no golf (sigh), just set things up and start a process. So I went through one binder. About 50 more to go. I pulled out one or two slides per page, scanned them, and saved them as hi-res TIFFs.
The series here shows 19 I particularly liked, including a few that seem cooler now than they did back then. I asked our driver Lama about the orange statue with a bell in front of it. He said “that is where they send email to God.”
Don’t you miss Lama and his little brown Starlett taxi, Mom? Remember how we sternly made him take more money than he wanted to charge us at the end of the week? Some of those guys, you just gotta be firm with them.
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on September 20, 2006 at 1:42 pm Mr. Bruce wrote:
I enjoy Doug’s Travelogues, whether to Kathmandu or Mt. Rainier, or Rainier Valley for that matter. Looking for some more Seattle shots for the wayward. How is Columbia City doing? thx bp
on September 20, 2006 at 7:30 pm Dave Fourputt wrote:
Geez Doug,
How about some more details on these???
on September 20, 2006 at 9:25 pm Doug wrote:
Sorry, I was in such a hurry to post a few after scanning them that I forgot to say what the pictures were. They’re from a week I spent in Kathmandu, Nepal with my Mom in March of 1999. You can read all the details in the emails I sent home from that trip, which I posted on my web site after we returned.
I’ve been thinking it would be really cool to do a similar sort of thing now, with the blog, for a two-way conversation during a trip. But these damn business trips don’t really allow for a daily blogging discipline sometimes. Megan, we need a real vacation.
I’ll scan some more soon and post them with a little more detail!
on September 24, 2006 at 8:52 am Mom wrote:
Doug,
The pictures bring back some fun memories. I enjoy them (but I also like my photo albums –where I can sit with my feet up and browse to my heart’s content.)
Mom
on September 24, 2006 at 9:30 am Doug wrote:
You’re such a traditionalist, Mom. How was the Elton John concert last night?
on September 25, 2006 at 7:10 am Mom wrote:
Doug,
The Elton John Concert was great. He is quite a showman as well as a singer, composer, and pianist. Then Sunday afternoon I went to the Gershwin Concert at Benaroyal Hall. If you ever get a chance to see Stewart Goodyear play the piano, –go. He was the guest pianist at the Gershwin Concert–and he is GOOD!
I have had more culture in one weekend than I usually get in several years.
Mom