Nostalgia

As technology advances so do my pictures get worse. The old ones anyway. It’s been a while since I checked some of the older sets from my pre digital and pre decent monitor days. Not only can I see how badly I manipulated some of the pictures, leaving horrific artefacts and strangely pixelated areas all over the place, but I can finally see how badly the originals were scanned in as well. To think I paid a tenner per CD. Those were the days. When I think of all those people that go on about how good film is compared to digital, I can always look at these pictures as a reminder of how bad things really were before digital.

However, I love some of the pictures, so once the U.S. trip is over, I have a new restoration project. This will hopefully coincide with a new set of pictures with Leni. It’s about time I made better use of my local resources.

There is still a whole lot to do for the shaving project. Too much to fit into the rest of September and first week of October? Who knows. Will take some doing, but if I can take my eyes away from the stock market for a few hours a day I might just get it done. I still need to ask a couple of people and some ideas and decisions are still very much in the air. Let’s hope new friends and acquaintances can come to the rescue.

And then we have the US trip. Probably the first real test of my ability to see a picture in anything. Let’s hope that beyond the screaming tantrums of (Leni too?) Matilda and the juggling of cases and pushchairs and car-seats that I can manage to get my head around the trip to take some great pictures. For me, that’s what this trip is; relax, enjoy the scenery, make it into something fun and lasting.