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The husband asked me to find an old picture from his Marine Corps days last week.
You know, the one from the Pleistocene Era before digital photography… when you bought film, loaded it into a camera, took 24 pictures, unloaded the film, drove the film to a processor, waited a week to find out if any of your pictures turned out well and put the ones that did in a photo album.
As you’ve probably realized from my photo heavy blogs, I take a lot of pictures. Granted I took less then than I do now thanks to that glorious little delete button… but even back in the day I took a lot. So when the husband asked me to find that one special photo?
It would not be an understatement to say I was less than thrilled.
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Our house is positively stuffed with photo albums. They’re in the cupboards….
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On the corner of desks..
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In the drawers….
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And yes, stacked on the floor.
I combed through 72 photo albums before I cried Uncle and told him if he needed it that badly he could search the rest himself.
I think you know how that turned out.
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River's world..... 
You have as many photo albums as me. 😂
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The sad things is I never look at them anymore. Really need to scan them all to my computer and free up some space.
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I don’t either. My youngest loves them though. That makes me happy. ❤️
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I didn’t take many photos before I had a digital camera. Getting 4 good pics from a roll of 24 wasn’t tenable.
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When I think of all those perfect pictures I thought I had…
Sigh.
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I started scanning all my family photos two years ago and I’m still not done. Of course I do it when I remember an have a chance. But dang, those are a lot of albums.
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I know I should do it, just can’t seem to start….
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It is definitely time consuming I’ll say that…..
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I still have a film camera, and use it from time to time. There’s a darkroom facility here that offers classes. I’d love to try it out, along with the couple dozen other things I would also like to try. If I live so long.
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I was slow to digital photo technology but embraced it fully and never looked back. No film for me.
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I think of darkroom work as an interesting hobby or craft. My phone shoots a lot more pics than my old Nikon.
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I just love the ease of take 100 pics and delete 98. That being said, I currently have 16,438 on my phone.
😳
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I transferred all my OLD photos to the Internet!
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Can you come do mine now….?
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You took pictures of pictures!
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Ha! You’re right…
I did!!
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I know I am going to get blasted, but I am pretty much the opposite. I am not a big fan of photographs. It is a reflection of what was. I am more into the reflection of what is going on “right now”. The fact that you have so many, and probably have not cracked many of those albums in years/decades tells me they really do not serve their intended purpose.
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We used to take them out all the time and walk down memory lane. Now it’s so much easier to just take out our phones.
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I remember seeing a bunch of his marine corps photos on the wall of the barn bar. Would one of them suffice?
I trimmed our photo albums down from 60+ to 20 before we moved to Florida. Even 20 is a bit much . . . I may do more whittling soon.
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I really just need to scan some and put them all in a big box.
I need to. Yup…
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We don’t have too many photos or photo albums. That will come in handy when one of us gets the bright idea one day to look for something…🙂
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A definite time saver.
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I still have a lot of photos to go in Albums. I miss that time.
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It was fun sitting down together and flipping through them. You don’t do that with digital…
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How many of those photo albums are dedicated to rocks?
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Actually, none. My rock fetish has only developed in the past decade.
😉
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I miss photo albums. My mom, bless her heart, still makes them!
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I have a SIL who spent a fortune dedicating a room to scrapbooking then gave it up. Glad I never got into that…
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You have a LOT of albums! I’m guessing he didn’t feel like taking on the challenge?
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You guessed correctly. He did not…
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still not found I think…………..
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Nope.
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Holy crap, that’s a LOT of photo albums!
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And I didn’t even show them all. Sigh..
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