over 2,000 served, er.... scanned

Since last winter i have been involved in a self-inflicted : ) family project. When i was growing up we did what my family called "pictures on the wall" - where we would take down one of the big paintings and project our 35mm slides onto the off-white wall. I always loved that, having the pictures be enormous. And everyone could see a picture at once, instead of needing to pass them around. I have a lot of great memories of being in a darkened living room, hearing the hum of the projector and the mechanical whirring sound as the next slide rolled into view.

Well.... the slide projector is becoming obsolete, is "going the way of Colecovision" if you will.... and my parent's projector doesn't really work any more, and hasn't for a few years. So there are roughly 14 years of photographs that we can't look at, because we didn't start using regular print film until I was in high school. And of course, we never made prints of all these.

To have them professionally done would cost a fortune. It's something like 30 cents (i just realized my keyboard doesn't have a "cent" sign!) a pop. Which, multiplied by 14 years worth is a heck of a lot of mula. My parents bought a scanner a few years back that has an extra light in the lid, and a special setting for slides..... so i have it at my place, and have slowly been going through cube after cube, slide after slide - making electronic copies that we can crop, edit, and eventually print. 16 cubes to a box, 12 boxes, and up to 30 slides per cube - you do the math. And it takes about 3 minutes per slide to scan. *sigh* 2,078 and counting.

BUT! it is fun seeing all these pictures again.... and it'll be awesome to finally have the prints.

Here's an example for you, the raw scan before i crop it - my brother and i circa 1982.

yep. i'm awesome.