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Nostalgia Friday
Mar. 28th, 2008 11:22 amThe last day or two has been spent surrounded by stacks of slides taken during our 18 years of living overseas. We want to get them all scanned into a digital format and put on CD so they can be used and viewed more easily with better technology than a slide projector. We have a scanner, but it does a very poor job with slides. However, there is a local grocery store chain here that does a beautiful job with scanning and if you take in batches of 100, it only costs 10 cents per slide plus the cost of the CD. With the number of slides we have, it will still be a hefty sum to get them all done, but it will be worth it.
So I'm having to look at each one, sorting them by type of slide mount, cleaning the ones that are dusty, then getting taking out ones that are duplicates, or blurry, or so nondescript they aren't really interesting. It's a bit hard on my back to be sitting and sorting for so long, but it's also really a lot of fun, too. I'm feeling all nostalgic!! It's great to see all those places and sights and people again that we knew during that time, and remember things in a happy nostalgic way. I have chuckled more than a few times at pics of DH fixing his Land Rover or climbing on the roof to fix our electric wire -- or shots of the incredibly bad houses we lived in over the years. Yikes!! I'll have to share some of those with you when they are ready, you'll be amazed at my strength and endurance and flexibility, hehe! There also pictures of our DS when he was a wee lad, and pictures of me when I was thin! ;-) And of course, all the lovely ones of places we visited, sunsets we saw, mountains we climbed, and friends we still miss.
There are some slides that are a bit too dark to see well when projected, but if they are scanned we might be able to fix them up with Photoshop, so I'm also excited to be able to have access to some of the pictures I haven't had copies of before this.
Once we get all these done, we will go back and sort through ones from the REALLY old days when we were kids and newlyweds and even before that, and choose the ones worth digitalizing. That is, if we can find them all after they have been stored for umpteen years in other people's houses!
So, that's what I'm up to today, visiting Pakistan without having to actually go there! :-D
So I'm having to look at each one, sorting them by type of slide mount, cleaning the ones that are dusty, then getting taking out ones that are duplicates, or blurry, or so nondescript they aren't really interesting. It's a bit hard on my back to be sitting and sorting for so long, but it's also really a lot of fun, too. I'm feeling all nostalgic!! It's great to see all those places and sights and people again that we knew during that time, and remember things in a happy nostalgic way. I have chuckled more than a few times at pics of DH fixing his Land Rover or climbing on the roof to fix our electric wire -- or shots of the incredibly bad houses we lived in over the years. Yikes!! I'll have to share some of those with you when they are ready, you'll be amazed at my strength and endurance and flexibility, hehe! There also pictures of our DS when he was a wee lad, and pictures of me when I was thin! ;-) And of course, all the lovely ones of places we visited, sunsets we saw, mountains we climbed, and friends we still miss.
There are some slides that are a bit too dark to see well when projected, but if they are scanned we might be able to fix them up with Photoshop, so I'm also excited to be able to have access to some of the pictures I haven't had copies of before this.
Once we get all these done, we will go back and sort through ones from the REALLY old days when we were kids and newlyweds and even before that, and choose the ones worth digitalizing. That is, if we can find them all after they have been stored for umpteen years in other people's houses!
So, that's what I'm up to today, visiting Pakistan without having to actually go there! :-D
