@tgraph52 It was pretty perfect.
When we were about 9 and 10 years old, my sister and I would go to the sailboat races on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis... [older than in that photo of the docks there]. We would volunteer to crew on the X-boats and had a lot of fun.
We lived right across the street from that lake from when I was 5 til 15.
@tgraph52 What a truly great memory and photo capture!
my mom took most of the family photos back then.. I got a bunch of the carousels of slides of those to scan when she died about 20 years ago. The old Kodachrome images are a nice way to look back.
@tgraph52 I've been going through some old photo albums and scanning them to make digital copies - I think those slides provide a higher quality for this task should you ever dare to venture it.
I got a bunch of carousels of slides.. Some of family stuff. picnics and things.. Some are trips my parents took. My dad would come home and spend days arranging the slides and then have a night of showing them and talking about the trip.
Looking at them all the years later, I have no idea where most were taken or who the people are in them. Those went in the trash.
The slides I kept do scan well. I have a 'older' Epson scanner that does negs and slides. It's time consuming
@tgraph52 It is definitely time consuming. I have to discipline myself not to perseverate with reminiscing while scanning and just "do the job." My goal is to able to have several flash drives I can plug into our smart TV and have a family night. It also makes it easier to share with family long distance.
Before we moved to NM I scanned a lot of our prints but not all. I find myself searching for certain ones that I don't have. We had an whole photo album of photos from our Halloween parties that I didn't do it turns out. I threw away all my negatives... that was in the 100s if not more. I have what I have and there's no going back now.
I was on a 1st name basis with the folks at the local Fotomat for years.
@tgraph52 You just reminded me that I still have many of the negatives from photos that have now turned kinda reddish - I wonder if redeveloping them would get them back to their original colors?
@tgraph52 ...or, if the negatives also fade in some way?
I assume everything fades, depending on how it was stored. I had my negs in sleeves and 3 ring binders and they seemed good. Of course there was no kind of organization to all of that mess.so I couldn't find anything if I wanted to.
You could try rescanning and see if the negs/slides have changed.
@tgraph52 Yeah. I mean, the photos themselves have been in closed albums kept in a closet shelf and still managed to fade. So, probably the same fate for the negagives. 😋
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That looks like a beautiful boat and a great day on the water