Loving Photography

Oh how I love photography! I love, love, love to shoot photos and work with my photos.

When I was a little girl my maternal grand mother gave me a little Brownie Hawkeye, much like hers. Now she was a photographer for her time, always carried her camera and took a gazillion photos. I think I used my little Brownie until I was in junior high.

Now that I have moved into my great digital camera I rarely use my 35, a nice Canon itself. But I enlarge my good photos and definitely enjoy them.

So now that it is nearly Christmas I had the idea to make a bunch of calenders using my photos. I found the design I wanted and the cheapest on vista.com where I've had other items made before. I chose my photos and ordered 5 plus get one free. Then I got an email with ½ off each calender so decided I'd extend the gifts to some of our friends so made up 5 more.

I decided to put a calender up on etsy.com but thought that it would be fun to make a calender using photos of the National Parks. I dug out my digital photos, where I'd used my early cameras (I've had several over the years), yikes, they are a horrible resolution and won't print well.

Last night I found a box, one of 4, with 35's from the 1990-2007 after which time I bought my good digital. There are so many photos. As I started looking I thought who is going to want all of these. There are good photos but many are not great photos and I certainly will never print, enlarge or show them to anyone. I got a big paper bag and started throwing away all these photos; I mean really who needs 100 photos of the 2006 Historic Car Races, or photos of some unknown landscape.

Now back to my task at hand, to find the negatives of the good National Park photos. I must get these calenders ordered. And if I can't sell the extras then my neighbors will get a calender.