http://sorabji.com/1/2009/05/ive-been-scanning-family-slides.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:08 -0500 hourly 1 http://sorabji.com/1/2009/05/ive-been-scanning-family-slides.html/comment-page-1#comment-5 mark thomas Fri, 08 May 2009 18:31:18 +0000 http://sorabji.com/1/?p=94#comment-5 never heard of Trachtenberg until now. pretty cool. i used to scan and share found photos and found crap all the time but i felt like it became cliché when hundreds of other web site peoples started doing the same thing. so i haven't done it so much for a long time. my interest in these slides focuses first on the quality of the Kodachrome prints, though the second batch of travel pictures is all in Ektachrome and many of those are washed out. and of course they're travel pictures, and they are about as boring as one would expect of tourist pictures from Paris, Rome, London, and the usual destinations. but my enduring interest in these slides focused more on the people and their mysterious lives. over 700 slides... by the end i was getting nostalgic about this mysterious family, and wishing i knew more about who is who and where any of them might be now. i'll make the whole set public but for now i'm taking a break from this project. never heard of Trachtenberg until now. pretty cool.
i used to scan and share found photos and found crap all the time but i felt like it became cliché when hundreds of other web site peoples started doing the same thing. so i haven’t done it so much for a long time.
my interest in these slides focuses first on the quality of the Kodachrome prints, though the second batch of travel pictures is all in Ektachrome and many of those are washed out. and of course they’re travel pictures, and they are about as boring as one would expect of tourist pictures from Paris, Rome, London, and the usual destinations. but my enduring interest in these slides focused more on the people and their mysterious lives.
over 700 slides… by the end i was getting nostalgic about this mysterious family, and wishing i knew more about who is who and where any of them might be now. i’ll make the whole set public but for now i’m taking a break from this project.

]]> http://sorabji.com/1/2009/05/ive-been-scanning-family-slides.html/comment-page-1#comment-4 Cheeze Fri, 08 May 2009 13:38:45 +0000 http://sorabji.com/1/?p=94#comment-4 This is really one of my favorite pictures!!! It's beautiful! This is really one of my favorite pictures!!!
It’s beautiful!

]]> http://sorabji.com/1/2009/05/ive-been-scanning-family-slides.html/comment-page-1#comment-3 Greg Fri, 08 May 2009 11:36:06 +0000 http://sorabji.com/1/?p=94#comment-3 Sounds like a fun project. You should team up with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. Sounds like a fun project. You should team up with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

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