scan in all my old photographs

after i scanned them, i put about 20 of them to music and made a DVD…

i did a few pictures today as i worked on my scrapbook.. i’m going to have to buy new ink and photopaper if i want this to work

A nice fiddly job for a boring day. I’ve uploaded the most important ones to Flickr, thrown away tons just keeping enough really old ones for a small box, and put lots on one side for my ex to go through.

I’ve told 43things to remind me in 6 months

Lexxy is connected to the CPU. I’ve been waiting for my daughter to bring over some wire to upload the baby pics into the hard drive. Then I figured out that I did not need a program and a wire to do this. DUH!!!!!! All I had to do was take out some card from the camera and insert it into the scanner which incidently has four different slots. My developed pics are slowly being saved for the family archives.

It took hours, but I finally scanned all of my travel photos (the ones worth seeing) from the past five years or so…I feel like I have accomplished something! Hooray!

since last Christmas. My scanner can scan film negatives at pretty high resolution.

This is a major operation though. I’ve got a big box full of photographs, most of which are completely crap. It probably doesn’t make sense to scan in all of them, but even just sifting out the good ones is going to take absolutely ages. Is it really worth the time and effort? It would be nice to have all my photos in the digital domain, but then what do I do with them?

I’ve always enjoyed photography, but these days I find myself questioning the purpose of it. (I’m talking here more about artistic photography, than taking snaps to record family/social events.) There must be literally billions upon billions of photographs in the world, most of which are never going to be seen by more than a few people. When I take a photo which pleases me, I get enjoyment from looking at it, sure. And if other people enjoy looking at it, that’s cool too. But somehow, that doesn’t seem like enough.

I’m not really sure where I’m going with this now. Perhaps I’m trying to decide whether my old photos carry enough value to be worth the time spent scanning them in. Maybe they’ll carry more value for me when I’m 90 (assuming I get there) and the film originals have degraded almost to the point of transparency. It’s not fair! Why wasn’t I born in the digital age? Then I’d never have to confront problems like this!

Purchased an all in one Lexmark and promptly put it in the closet. No excuse not to connect it. I have about four shoeboxes and seven photo albums to be digitized and transferred to disc.
As of Sept 17, 2006 The scanner, printer, is connected to the computer. Yeah!!!!! progress

I’m in the process of printing all my digi photos to save them. Scanning all my old photos just doesn’t seem worth it. If I wanted to scan a paticular picture in I will, otherwise I’ll save my sanity and not do this. I don’t trust this stupid computer anyway to save my photos. It’s already lost some.

Sooo maaaany…