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TJ wrote: I posted the following reply three days ago, but it hasn't yet appeared in the printer newsgroup, where I'm reading this thread. That's because it is top posted. And for all those who have a spell over top-posting: Get over it. Sometimes it makes more sense to do it this way. Sin in haste, repent at leisure. |
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lid wrote:
Just kidding. An so I eat my words. Please forgive my outburst. I live in Central New York, and I've had a tough couple of weeks. While I didn't get the eleven feet of show they got about 50 miles from here, I did get around six. Even so, every time I get shoveled out, the wind comes up and fills things back in again. I'm tired, and I'm cranky. But that's no excuse for being a jerk. TJ -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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TJ wrote: You'll be pleased to know I won't be burdening you with another any time soon. Okay. Watch that BP! |
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TJ wrote: An so I eat my words. Please forgive my outburst. Not to worry. One thing Usenet has done for me is to thicken this old skin. I rarely take anything personally anymore. |
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TJ wrote: lid wrote: Just kidding. An so I eat my words. Please forgive my outburst. I live in Central New York, and I've had a tough couple of weeks. While I didn't get the eleven feet of show they got about 50 miles from here, I did get around six. Even so, every time I get shoveled out, the wind comes up and fills things back in again. I'm tired, and I'm cranky. But that's no excuse for being a jerk. I always knew you had no excuse. TJ |
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Photographic memories are sometimes one of the best tangibles that
remain after someone we care about has gone, be it a friend who has left to go to another locale, someone who has died, or even to grasp at some aspect of our past. Since permanence often comes up as an issue with images, this is a reminder of why we should be concerned about these newer technologies and how long they will last. Photographs may be one of the only bridges we keep between the present and the past. I would suggest to you, if you have the skills and equipment to scan that images, clean it up in Photoshop or another program and reprint it with a quality stable ink printer. If not, it may be well worth your while to have someone do the work for you to maintain this keepsake. Art TJ wrote: I posted the following reply three days ago, but it hasn't yet appeared in the printer newsgroup, where I'm reading this thread. I'm posting again, in hopes that this time it will get here. I apologize to any group where it appears twice. And for all those who have a spell over top-posting: Get over it. Sometimes it makes more sense to do it this way. TJ Captain Midnight wrote: "measekite" wrote in message et... TJ wrote: If I could still get film for it, my mother's Brownie would work just fine, thank you. Good to know you can appreciate one of the historic cameras that brought photography to the masses. Correction: It did NOT bring photography to the masses. It just empowered a bunch of snapshooters. That is not photography. TJ Snapshooting is photography. Snapshooting is just lower quality The photographer determines the quality much more than the camera. More people having reasonable access to equipment allows more quality photographers to emerge. It was really about not having to develop your own image. Kind of like the difference of using an outhouse or a Crapper in January. My father died in July, a victim of lung cancer from years of smoking cigarettes. My youngest brother died three years ago, also a victim of cancer - that one from unknown causes. Yesterday I came across a snapshot of the two of them, taken around 35 years ago. They're standing on the dock at a fishing camp, my then five-year-old brother proudly holding up the 8-inch fish he had just caught. My father, in the full vigor of his life, is standing slightly behind him, hands on hips, smiling at him. When I think of my father, the image that forms in my mind is much like the one I see in this photo, not the one of the sick, old man of his last year. I'm not sure who caught the shot, whether it was me, my mother, or one of my other brothers, but the moment was preserved by a simple, inexpensive snapshot camera. By professional standards, the quality is poor, and has deteriorated with age. Colors have faded, and they are no longer quite the correct hues. But this old print still has the power to invoke strong memories, the power to show even strangers something of the man my father once was, and the happiness he gave to his children. That image would never have existed but for the simple, inexpensive snapshot camera. There are thousands, millions of snapshots, taken by non-professionals, that accomplish the same thing, around the world. If that's not photography, I don't know what is. TJ |
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Arthur Entlich wrote:
Photographic memories are sometimes one of the best tangibles that remain after someone we care about has gone, be it a friend who has left to go to another locale, someone who has died, or even to grasp at some aspect of our past. Since permanence often comes up as an issue with images, this is a reminder of why we should be concerned about these newer technologies and how long they will last. Photographs may be one of the only bridges we keep between the present and the past. I would suggest to you, if you have the skills and equipment to scan that images, clean it up in Photoshop or another program and reprint it with a quality stable ink printer. If not, it may be well worth your while to have someone do the work for you to maintain this keepsake. Art I have scanned the photo using that PSC I keep talking about, and I've played with it a little. I don't have Photoshop, but I do have Picasa and The Gimp for Linux. I also have ACeeDCee (or however they spell it) Pro 7.0 package for Windows. (That last one was purchased for half price after rebate. Just bringing the discussion back on topic...) One of them should be able to do the job when I get the time to do it properly. I could email a copy of the original scan if you care to see it. If not, I quite understand. I'd need a valid email address, though. My point was to illustrate to Measekite that snapshots do indeed have their place in photography. Since he hasn't replied, I can only assume that either he has no way to refute my assertion without looking like an idiot (which never stopped him before), or I have rendered him speechless with my eloquence. Either way, we are all better off. TJ -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:39:10 -0500, TJ wrote:
I could email a copy of the original scan if you care to see it. If not, I quite understand. I'd need a valid email address, though. TJ Maybe you could post it to http://www.pixentral.com/ or to alt.binaries.photoshop. Posting it to one of these place would give a greater number of people a chance to see it and possibly work on it, if they felt like a challenge.....just a thought.g Talker |
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