My Wife asked me why I take so many pics of the same thing.

worldtalker · Jan 31, 2015

I used to with 35MM...boy,did that get $$$$. Now it sets in a bag. :laughing7:

Every once in a while you get a good one I tell Her.

GOD Bless

Chris

tamrock · Jan 31, 2015

I know. I have boxes full of slides in the garage. That was the bargain way of saving photos. What pleasure it must be with so many species of birds around the home. It sure is a nice way to see the beauty of winter. Great shots. Thanks for posting them.

slink · Jan 31, 2015

You take awesome pics.Tell her your practicing.

Peyton Manning · Jan 31, 2015

I told your wife to leave you alone, tell her to text me.

worldtalker · Jan 31, 2015

tamrock said:
I know. I have boxes full of slides in the garage. That was the bargain was of saving photos. What pleasure it must be with so many species of birds around the home. It sure is a nice way to see the beauty of winter. Great shots. Thanks for posting them.

I'd like to get some pics of critters other than squirrels and birds though.

releventchair · Jan 31, 2015

Perhaps it is true that we can not step in the same river twice?

BosnMate · Jan 31, 2015

You take some really good pictures. Like the rest, I have boxes of 35mm slides. I have some pretty good ones I'd share, but sheer numbers and lack of organization will probably
doom them to the dust bin.

austin · Jan 31, 2015

You realize that you are taking pictures of the dinosaurs of yesteryear and preserving the history for the future. Good job...

curious kat · Jan 31, 2015

More Great shots.... :icon_thumright:

Thanks for sharing them.

old digger · Feb 1, 2015

Very nice photo's! We do not have any Cardinal's up our way, but we do have our share of those Purple House finches.

tamrock · Feb 1, 2015

worldtalker said:
I'd like to get some pics of critters other than squirrels and birds though.

I got squirrels, rabbits, prairie dogs and coyote, but not a large variety of small birds around here. It's not a largely wooded place here on the high plains, other then the trees we people have planted. I do get owls, hawks, eagles, blue jays, common sparrows, doves, robins and the new recent invader known as the Eurasian collared dove with no bag limit from our fish & game dept. Eurasian collared dove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 20 years ago there were pheasants around, but new development ran them all out of the open spaces. Along the creeks and streams on the plains that are more wooded I do see king fishers, but they sure don't sit still long enough for you to take a picture of them.

Oregon Viking · Feb 1, 2015

tamrock said:
I know. I have boxes full of slides in the garage. That was the bargain way of saving photos. What pleasure it must be with so many species of birds around the home. It sure is a nice way to see the beauty of winter. Great shots. Thanks for posting them.

worldtalker, great pics!
tamrock...my dad has boxes of slides also. Have you converted any to CD/DVD ?

tamrock · Feb 1, 2015

Oregon Viking said:
worldtalker, great pics!
tamrock...my dad has boxes of slides also. Have you converted any to CD/DVD ?

That i'll be something to do when I retire. Funny how these days some of our Kodak moments are locked up in crashed computers from the 1990's I've got a desk top and old lap top out there also I hope the pictures can be recovered on some day.

Oregon Viking · Feb 1, 2015

tamrock said:
That i'll be something to do when I retire. Funny how these days some of our Kodak moments are locked up in crashed computers from the 1990's I've got a desk top and old lap top out there also I hope the pictures can be recovered on some day.

I will be buying a "slide converter" transfer slides to cd/dvd. I don't know if you can have it done any other way.

texasred777 · Feb 1, 2015

In the early 2000s, I took all of the pictures that we had and scanned them onto my hard drive. I kept those pictures, plus all the ones that were taken afterward on my hard drive. I would occasionally make a copy on a dvd disc in case of a hard drive failure. Well, about 4 years ago, I down loaded all of the pictures from my hard drive onto an external drive. I wiped my computer and up graded a bit and reloaded. I took some of the things off the external drive and got them back onto my hard drive. A couple of days later, the hard drive was on top of a large storage box. The cat knocked it off onto the carpeted floor. When I picked it up, I heard something loose in it. It was totaled. A local shop said it probably could be copied, but the cost would be enormous. When I went back to my dvd discs to get a copy of the pictures, I could not find it. No idea what happened to it. I've lost many hours of work of scanning them to my computer. It's possible that I might find that disc, but I probably never look farther for it.
Now, I don't know if it's worth doing it all over again or not. I still have the pictures. I don't think my son or daughter would cherish them as I and my wife did, no one else that I know would want them, so what to do? Most of my relatives are no longer alive. The ones who are, have copies that I have sent them that I thought they would be interested in.
Oh well, I probably don't need to see them to remember most of them. Some of them are of my grandparents back in the early 1900s, one of them is of my wife's dad being held by his dad, surrounded by 4 of his uncles that was taken in about 1925. Old memories. Children don't have the time to go back and see how their great-grand parents, grand parents, and even their parents lived.

pepperj · Feb 1, 2015

tamrock said:
That i'll be something to do when I retire. Funny how these days some of our Kodak moments are locked up in crashed computers from the 1990's I've got a desk top and old lap top out there also I hope the pictures can be recovered on some day.

I'm in the vote as you, crashed desk top, XPS lap top, and a back up tower, project that's on the board to do. Time to suck it up and bring it all in and get everything put on the new operating system.

texasred777 · Feb 2, 2015

Tamrock, I missed something earlier on your post! The collared doves. We have those here. I try to post a picture of some of them that I've taken over the last several years.
Yes, you need to get all of those pictures onto discs. It's the only way to save them in case the hard drive crashes or some other catastrophic failure. I lost those of mine on that external hard drive that got knocked off and can't even find the dvds that I copied them to! I've got to do some searching for those dvds.
I've got a friend back in Texas that called me last week about their laptop. It's getting old, about 8 or 10 years old. But had been working ok until about 3 weeks ago. They said they had pictures on it and had never put them on discs. The laptop won't even boot; no sign of life. They are sending it to me to see if I can retrieve the data for them.
You should get that laptop out and try to get the data you want to keep off of it as soon as possible.