Our Photo Inventory
Aug 10, 2021 09:48:27 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
fourlocks wrote:
That's why I asked UHH for the name of a good "photo album" program so I could easily create a PowerPoint type presentation with selected, captioned slides. My hope is that each slide will have enough information so future generations can see the connection of the subject to their own lives making the photo meaningful. Needles to say, these photos will not be of sunsets, wildlife, architectural features, crashing waves and landscapes.
You can save your PowerPoint presentation as a movie file. A friend assembled a timeline of photographs for her brother’s 50th wedding anniversary, along with a soundtrack of music, and saved it as a movie. She played it at their celebration party - it was a big hit.
Stan
Aug 10, 2021 09:57:35 #
frankie c wrote:
just my thoughts on this. the longest lasting and ... (show quote)
A while back, the government did a big study on how to store records. People were angry when study said high quality, acid free paper. They then gave reasons as many have stated here including instances then of having to cobble together equipment from parts to read data of interest. The 1960 census was on computer files only readable by a computer of which only two? then still existed in museums.
Aug 10, 2021 10:00:56 #
I recently decided to cleanse my photo archives.
Went through everything and extracted family pics. With 4 sisters, 1 brother and about 18 nieces and nephews there were lots from family gatherings.
I separated them into families, took them home one visit and passed them on.
Since we don’t have any kids it was easy to shed most of my personal photos. Boxed them and the negatives up for hazardous waste disposal.
What was left I scanned with my Kodak and Epson scanners and boxed them as well for hazmat.
Went through everything and extracted family pics. With 4 sisters, 1 brother and about 18 nieces and nephews there were lots from family gatherings.
I separated them into families, took them home one visit and passed them on.
Since we don’t have any kids it was easy to shed most of my personal photos. Boxed them and the negatives up for hazardous waste disposal.
What was left I scanned with my Kodak and Epson scanners and boxed them as well for hazmat.
Aug 10, 2021 10:05:48 #
Aug 10, 2021 11:29:13 #
I scanned all the old photos and slides that I had and all the snapshots from my wife's collection along with a box or two from my parents. Thumbdrives with copies went to my kids and my sister-in-law.
All pretty standard - the difference is:
We have 5 photoframes plugged in around the house and each has a different memory card of random photos. Random is key to Karen and I as one minute may be a photo from my childhood and the next may be Karen high on a telephone pole with hooks on a hillside in WV. Pets from the past or current ones can pop up any time.
Someone said we take photos for ourselves and I agree, my kids could care less about my shots of the horse and dog or cats or anything really.
All pretty standard - the difference is:
We have 5 photoframes plugged in around the house and each has a different memory card of random photos. Random is key to Karen and I as one minute may be a photo from my childhood and the next may be Karen high on a telephone pole with hooks on a hillside in WV. Pets from the past or current ones can pop up any time.
Someone said we take photos for ourselves and I agree, my kids could care less about my shots of the horse and dog or cats or anything really.
Aug 10, 2021 11:42:10 #
Are you all so desperate to leave something behind?
You die, that's it.
You die twice. First when you meet your maker, second when no one remembers you as a person. Your creations, deeds, whatever? Bah, no one cares over time.
Take the long view and live happier instead of worrying about what you will never control (as if you controlled anything while alive).
You die, that's it.
You die twice. First when you meet your maker, second when no one remembers you as a person. Your creations, deeds, whatever? Bah, no one cares over time.
Take the long view and live happier instead of worrying about what you will never control (as if you controlled anything while alive).
Aug 10, 2021 12:30:46 #
I have tried to sort through my prints and scan those I feel have universal appeal. I put those on my website for the world to see. I still have the prints, but I don't know why.
Aug 10, 2021 13:40:32 #
DJon41
Loc: Utah
Sidwalkastronomy wrote:
I photograph for me and if others enjoy them it's a plus
Ditto!!
Aug 10, 2021 14:27:40 #
amen to that! we're waaaayy past cornering the kids , and many other relatives for "the slide show". frankly, no one gives a damn about our hills, meadows, flowers and etc etc - unless that person was by chance in the picture. i've culled and culled saves maybe 5% and tossed the rest. i've seen many pics that would have been a saver IF there was a pertinent person somewhere in there. all the rest will go with the first 'sweep' the kids - some now in their 60's and grandkids do after we graciously depart.
Aug 10, 2021 14:43:13 #
Badgertale
Loc: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Seek out local or familial genealogists and offer them up. They may be of some use to this type of endeavor.
Aug 10, 2021 19:48:51 #
Went through that about 8 years ago when my wife lost her third sister. She and her last sister had to clean out the family home where the family lived for 70 years. we found photo albums in which very few people were recognized. I, back in the mid 60s, inherited my father's movie camera, projector, screen and (probably) miles of 8mm movies. I have not looked at my Dad's movies in years and would have difficulty recalling who was in them. It is an emotional decision to discard the memories and images that help reveal our ancestry.
Aug 10, 2021 22:27:48 #
Without pics we don’t know our history! My great grandma sold the first “power” to the neighborhood.... I learned this because of one postcard and a leftover bill.....just saying.
Get some family members together and let you help with this challenge....
Get some family members together and let you help with this challenge....
Aug 12, 2021 09:06:20 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Are you all so desperate to leave something behind?
You die, that's it.
You die twice. First when you meet your maker, second when no one remembers you as a person. Your creations, deeds, whatever? Bah, no one cares over time.
Take the long view and live happier instead of worrying about what you will never control (as if you controlled anything while alive).
You die, that's it.
You die twice. First when you meet your maker, second when no one remembers you as a person. Your creations, deeds, whatever? Bah, no one cares over time.
Take the long view and live happier instead of worrying about what you will never control (as if you controlled anything while alive).
Good story about actors, told by Jack Elam - often a bad guy in westerns.
The five stages of an actor's career.
1. Who is Jack Elam?
2. Get me Jack Elam.
3. Get me a young Jack Elam
4. Get me a Jack Elam type.
5. Who is Jack Elam?
Aug 12, 2021 10:08:59 #
The pics most likely to be of interest in the future are the familly portraits and homes. Maybe label each one and save to a hard drive for the future generation. Every now and then my sister and I get a kick from pics of us as little kids that our dad took in the distant past
Aug 13, 2021 09:42:15 #
JeffR
Loc: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Badgertale wrote:
Seek out local or familial genealogists and offer them up. They may be of some use to this type of endeavor.
Only if they are well labeled. A picture of people will be of little interest to anyone unless their identity is known. An essential part of post-processing all of those scans is to add some white canvas to the bottom and type in a detailed description of who, what, where and when.
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