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| Ten years ago, a young hedgehog appeared in our snowy garden. We fed him dog meat and warm water but his chances of survival were slim. |
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| Window reflection on a fence on Brincliffe Edge Road January 3rd 2010 |
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| Carved dead tree in nearby Chelsea Park - ten years ago. There's hardly anything left of it today., Nature has continued to take its course. |
Anyway, with these thoughts in mind, I decided to look back ten years and resurrect some pictures I took in January 2010. I have dusted them down and given them a bit of a polish to accompany this blogpost.
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| Rootops of our Banner Cross suburb in January 2010 |
Super photos. I once walked into Argos and bought a digital camera and asked the cashier: "What film does it take"? I know.
ReplyDeleteWell, you are half Irish!
DeleteWhich half? Oh dear!
ReplyDeleteBrassed Off quote: Top half only. What a film.
ReplyDeleteYes. I would say top half in response to your question.
DeleteReminiscing...now I have the Little River Band's song "Reminiscing" going through my mind.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to see more chosen photos. :)
Just for you, I will repeat this exercise Lee. Maybe I will go back five or fifteen years.
DeleteI loved the arrival of the digital camera. Now if only I could take better pictures with it! I have not had any trouble organizing my digital photos. I divide them by subjects and years and have many folders within folders all backed up in external drives and in the cloud. My problem is the lifetime of print photographs I have that I am trying to slowly scan and organize while preserving some of them for future generations. I have family photos dating back to the late 1800s and I love them but the organizing and scanning becomes overwhelming!
ReplyDeleteI very much like your thought of looking back ten years and resurrecting some of your pictures! That could even become a monthly feature for you. It is always interesting to see the changes time and life bring to the world. I love the pictures you have shown us today. The rooftops are especially nice.
I never realised that ex-hippies could be as meticulous as you have been about organising your library of digital pictures!
DeleteBig Bear will still say, ever once in a while, "Why are you taking so many pictures?" As if we still had to pay for development. Probably in another 50 years you will be able to blink your eyes a certain way and the picture will automatically be implanted in your brain. For recall at any time. That is, if there is anything left of nature to still photograph!
ReplyDeleteThere will be no birds and deep in the woods no Big Bears either.
DeleteThat's very true about digital photos - I'm sure mine will all disappear into the ether one day. I promised myself I would select some of my favourite pictures of France and get them printed in a photobook for posterity.
ReplyDeleteDo it then Sue! Keep the promise. It is a promise worth keeping and putting a photobook together is fun!
DeleteNice shots. Digital photography is one thing that it's hard to say is not a step forward. While I've been thinking about those shots I posted the other night of Glen's grandparents and how amazed I was to realize that they even existed, I also think of how many images our grandchildren will have of us. We won't be mysterious strangers to them. And as long as Blogger keeps it up, they'll have so many words to go along with those pictures, not just about us but about them and their childhoods. Pretty cool, really.
ReplyDeleteYour optimistic note is I think justifiable. The graph of photos taken of family members has been heading up sharply for a hundred years.
DeleteOn the other hand, YP, with digital photos you can simply type a quality into your storage programme to call up all photos having that quality. It makes life a lot easier.
ReplyDeleteA quality? I don't get you Graham. Type in "beautiful" or "stormy" for example?
DeleteI couldn't think of the appropriate word at that moment so you are justified in your comment to a degree. I should have used the word 'attribute'. If you typed in 'stormy' then you would get all the stormy ones. 'Beautiful' might be more problematic. Mine can be searched by location, date, tag, face recognition or, for example, beach, clouds, mountain, car, ship, sea, beach, umbrella or anything else you car to think of. It's pretty good too on the whole at finding what I ask for. Please excuse the ending of a sentence with a preposition.
Deleteand the spelling mistake.
DeleteThe quality, the longevity of digital's set me on collecting and scanning important family photos, to always have them. And now that my old hands tremble too much to hold the weight of my Canon and it's birding lenses, I settle for my phone. Those cameras have improved exponentially, too.
ReplyDeleteMy son has the latest i-phone with three lenses and it is brilliant.
DeleteYou describe something that happens to me. I don't take enough time to sort through photos. Lately I've been checking photos in the camera and eliminating some before they hit the computer.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should ask The Micro Manager to be in charge of your pictures. She would sort them expertly. Nurses are good organizers.
DeleteAll,of your resurrected pictures are great, and the rooftops one reminds me of a painting/drawing I have seen elsewhere. The young hedgehog hopefully survived and lived on to have (or make) many baby hedgehogs.
ReplyDeleteI love taking pictures of my daily life as much as of places where I am on holiday or other special occasions. Sorting through them, maybe putting them together for a post and writing something to go along with them makes the memory last longer for me. Most of the time, once a set of pictures has appeared on my blog, I delete them from my computer. That means I will lose them forever if blogger shuts down at some stage. But I keep those with people on them who mean a lot to me (and usually never appear on my blog). Also, I like having calendars and photo books printed of my pictures, as gifts for others and for myself.
Photobooks are great aren't they? Maybe I will get round to making a photobook of 2019 - containing all the best pictures I took last year.
DeleteMy husband and I have far too many photos and he leaves all the editing to me. When we went to the Christmas party he took 742 photos in the span of a few hours and I get to go through them all. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI tend to cringe when I go through my old photos. I can see how much I've improved my technique and instead of being happy that my technique has improved, I am embarrassed at how bad some of my old photos were. I print my photos and hang them up at work for patients, some into poster size and some are 8"x12". The patients enjoy them because it beats the hell out of looking at plain walls and provides a good distraction when I'm poking them with needles.
I still have a hard time taking more photos rather than less. I forget that I can delete them, no need to pay for processing:) You are not alone.
742 photos at one party! Hell - you Canadians must have some very interesting parties!
DeletePoor hedgehog! I guess they must go SOMEWHERE in the winter, though, right? (Surely not to Spain!)
ReplyDeleteI agree completely about digital photography. Some people wax nostalgic about film and the constraints it put on picture-taking -- arguing that actually led to better, more carefully crafted pictures -- but I disagree. Film was a pain in the ass. (Or arse!) I am happy to be free of it.
I upload all my pictures (after editing/deleting the rejects) to Flickr, where I have everything divided into searchable albums. That helps immensely in making sure nothing gets lost. (And it makes them available to everyone else to view, unless I set them to private, like for some family photos.) It's also a good backup in case the house burns down!
I thought you'd be good at organising your pictures Steve - being a librarian and all.
DeleteI got my first digital camera in 2006, and especially after I started blogging in 2009, I feel like I lost control... Especially photos from my own town and neighbourhood are hard to find now, if I don't happen to know when exactly I took them. Travel photos are easier since I don't go away all that often, and usually have the folders better tagged as well...
ReplyDeleteYou sound a bit like me DT - slightly disorganised.
DeleteHedgehogs can still be active in winter. We made a hedgehog feeding box for our garden and stock it up with dry hedgehog food from the pet shop. They still seem to be visiting some nights despite it being the time of year they are supposed to be hibernating.
ReplyDeleteI rarely see any evidence of hedgehogs these days. Their numbers have plummeted since we were boys.
DeleteI remember those days of 36-picture films -- or if you weren't as wealthy, 24- or even 12-picture films. I much prefer the digital camera world.
ReplyDeleteExcellent shots here, YP. And quite different from your walking photos.
You must have been very poor if you had twelve shot films Jenny!
DeleteYP seems not to recall 120 and 127 sized roll film cameras.
DeleteAre you trying to wind me up?
Delete(Like a 127 film?)
Ha! There really was 127 sized film. My first camera used it. Twelve 4x4 cm images on rolls 46mm wide.
DeleteI started using a camera when I was very young, and by the time I received a Kodak Instamatic when I was fourteen or so I was responsible for buying film - and a 12-shot film was what I could afford!
DeleteExternal drives are the answer, and of course filing, something I have never done. Flickr has become expensive for storage but is useful. But what if the whole of the digital age got wiped?
ReplyDeleteThat could happen. That's what happened to the "Panoramio" photo sharing website hosted by Google. Overnight millions of great images from across the world disappeared.
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