After all four of our parents passed away, like many others we were left to sort out their belongings after they died.
Both of our parents were keen caravaners & had traveled extensively throughout Australia. Great!
We inherited hundreds of hours of video footage & thousands of 35mm slide photographs that they had taken along their way.
We tried to make an effort to watch/see as much of them as possible.
Obviously they meant far more to them than us.
We found them totally boring despite all of the exciting places that they had been.
This got us thinking about whether it was worth recording all of OUR travels because they won't mean anything to our children when we pass away.
Also, we are too busy traveling & creating memories along the way to be looking back at what we have done.
We came to the conclusion that it seems like a waste of time taking too many images & thought it was better to recall our travels from memory while we still have one.
Happy travel memories mean a lot to those that shared them but virtually nothing to those that didn't.
What do others think?
KJB said
08:18 PM Feb 5, 2022
86GTS wrote:
After all four of our parents passed away, like many others we were left to sort out their belongings after they died.
Both of our parents were keen caravaners & had traveled extensively throughout Australia. Great!
We inherited hundreds of hours of video footage & thousands of 35mm slide photographs that they had taken along their way.
We tried to make an effort to watch/see as much of them as possible.
Obviously they meant far more to them than us.
We found them totally boring despite all of the exciting places that they had been.
This got us thinking about whether it was worth recording all of OUR travels because they won't mean anything to our children when we pass away.
Also, we are too busy traveling & creating memories along the way to be looking back at what we have done.
We came to the conclusion that it seems like a waste of time taking too many images & thought it was better to recall our travels from memory while we still have one.
Happy travel memories mean a lot to those that shared them but virtually nothing to those that didn't.
What do others think?
I agree. If you want to ,take a few (just a few) Pics. - easy now with phones and Pics can have Date and Location automatically - to keep the memories alive for yourself during the following few years but be aware that generally anyone else is soon bored/not interested in looking at them . Just enjoy the travel without being tied to "record keeping" .... KB
KJB said
08:22 PM Feb 5, 2022
86GTS wrote:
After all four of our parents passed away, like many others we were left to sort out their belongings after they died.
Both of our parents were keen caravaners & had traveled extensively throughout Australia. Great!
We inherited hundreds of hours of video footage & thousands of 35mm slide photographs that they had taken along their way.
We tried to make an effort to watch/see as much of them as possible.
Obviously they meant far more to them than us.
We found them totally boring despite all of the exciting places that they had been.
This got us thinking about whether it was worth recording all of OUR travels because they won't mean anything to our children when we pass away.
Also, we are too busy traveling & creating memories along the way to be looking back at what we have done.
We came to the conclusion that it seems like a waste of time taking too many images & thought it was better to recall our travels from memory while we still have one.
Happy travel memories mean a lot to those that shared them but virtually nothing to those that didn't.
What do others think?
I agree. I have just experienced the same situation. If you want to ,take a few (just a few) Pics. - easy now with phones and Pics can have Date and Location automatically - to keep the memories alive for yourself during the following few years but be aware that generally anyone else is soon bored/not interested in looking at them . Just enjoy the travel without being tied to "record keeping" .... KB
Bicyclecamper said
08:48 PM Feb 5, 2022
All my bike touring trips, except for maybe 35 pics of 35mm film, I have taken on these trips since 2016, my third stint back at bicycletouring, that is all the photo's I have taken, mostly of wildlife, my dog, and my camping set up. My wife is not into seeing them, nor my daughter, only the grandkids. I have 14 X 35 mm rolls of film that we took on our big tour in the 80's that have not been developed. They are in a temperature controlled secure storage, but after our other slides and photos were taken early on that same trip and nobody wanted to view, them just didn't see the point to develop them. Don't see the point today for videos or pics anymore. I do video from behind me on a GoPro lookalike, but the is for accident reasons, and it is mostly over written. I have the memories of my trips, that is until I lose my memory in old age, then it wont matter.
Dougwe said
09:11 PM Feb 5, 2022
I take digital photos of everywhere I go usually and keep them on the laptop with a seperate back up. I keep daily notes, not too detailed though of the days activity/s in a word document format stored the same way as the photos.
I also do a bi monthly update with photos and post on this forum and also email to friends and family that like to follow my choice of living. My daughters print them off and put in a memory book for my grandkids. What they do with that book as they get older is up to them. My 13 year old granddaughter is often seen laying on the floor reading her book of Poppy's travels.
Every now and then I go to pics or documents to get info or check on something for whatever reason.
It doesn't take up much of my time and anyway, I'm retired so have plenty of time.
Keep Safe out there.
Peter_n_Margaret said
09:18 PM Feb 5, 2022
We have never attempted a blog, but did for a number of years produce an annual CD of our travels. It was clearly eagerly anticipated by friends, but no more. I have though, kept a cronological digital pictorial record of our travels for many years, from our honeymoon in 1967 (and even before that) and on and that is useful to provide information about experiences and conditions that we still enjoy and that we can share with others, when appropriate. I find that these pics are useless if not digitised. Refueling on the way to Darwin, 1967.
I was recently looking through old slides looking for a particular image. Was thinking that no one will be interested in 99.9+% of them. So at some stage I will start chucking out slides. Maybe the ultimate goal is say 100 images. Plenty of other things to chuck out first!
Warren-Pat_01 said
10:02 PM Feb 5, 2022
Unfortunately not too many of the modern generation are not interested in history, even their family's history.
Pat has notebooks that belonged to her passed grand parents, great grand parents who were engineers, surveyors of Newcastle, etc. We'll make them available to some museums as what is written is quite important to history. For those who live in Newcastle, the main street is named after her family member who surveyed the city.
A couple of years ago however, she convinced me to throw out a lot of my Darwin, Radio Australia, & Ceduna slides - now I regret it as there are some great ex PMG, Telecom, Telstra staff Facebook pages where they could have been shown to other prior & later workmates.
Pat also has hand written letters of her earlier family's travels through life, travelling by ship from England to Australia, going through both world wars, being sunk by enemy action - now we send emails which last 10mS, a day, a week or a year & once deleted - it's gone!
86GTS said
05:09 AM Feb 6, 2022
Even in current times our kids & grand kids aren't really interested in our travels, they're busy living their own lives, which is fair enough. We don't expect them to show much interest in what we're doing. They are keen for us to get out there & travel safely which is all that is to be expected. We too have been traveling extensively since we got married in the early 70's. We didn't leave it all up until we retired thank goodness. We very occasionally try to look back at the photos that we took on those trips but find it a bit of a chore. Looking at old images is a bit like, how often do you get your wedding album out & flick through it. Shared memories of our travels are the most important thing to us. To us taking lots of photos & keeping a travel diary like we used to do seems like a waste of time nowadays.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Sunday 6th of February 2022 05:10:39 AM
jade46 said
07:05 AM Feb 6, 2022
In 1999 we travelled extensively through Egypt. It is a photographers dream and took about 300 slides on film back then. When we returned home nobody was really interested and the process of watching them became a chore for all concerned. It also occured to me that I had only seen most of these fantastic sights thrue the camera lens and mostly missed the real atmosphere as I was to busy with camera setting etc "they wern't auto then" So my opinion is use your eyes and brain to capture the moment or you will miss a lot takeing photo's . Photo's never do landscapes justice anyway in my opinion
Radar said
08:11 AM Feb 6, 2022
jade46 wrote:
In 1999 we travelled extensively through Egypt. It is a photographers dream and took about 300 slides on film back then. When we returned home nobody was really interested and the process of watching them became a chore for all concerned. It also occured to me that I had only seen most of these fantastic sights thrue the camera lens and mostly missed the real atmosphere as I was to busy with camera setting etc "they wern't auto then" So my opinion is use your eyes and brain to capture the moment or you will miss a lot takeing photo's . Photo's never do landscapes justice anyway in my opinion
jade46 hi.
For these reason you give is probably the main reason I take only a hand full of photos these days conpared to say even 4 years ago.
I be out snapping photos every chance I had, then one day I smelt the Roses and now I am enjoying the moment, still take a photo of where we are for later for later.
A computer full of thousands of digital photos will never match a shoe box of old black and white prints. The mystery holding that print is totally awesome.
SoloMC said
09:02 AM Feb 6, 2022
I used to be a fulltime photographer. One trip to Africa, I took 68 000 photos. Took me ages to go thru them and sort out. I sold a few but thats it.
I've kept about 200 really good ones and I just set them as my screen saver.
I also used to be a motorsport track photographer and other than the participants who bought some photos, no one is interested
Re travel photos, NO ONE IS INTERESTED except you!
They are good to review sometime later but thats it.
Its just like slide nights where people were forced to watch someone elses photos of a trip they did.
I remember one such night where they showed hundreds of photos of their cats FFS.
Most people would prefer poking red hot knitting needles into their eyes than look thru YOUR travel photos, they are just for you
Buzz Lightbulb said
10:55 AM Feb 6, 2022
I have 50 litres of slides that I inherited from my father and his father. Most are boring but now and then I see something that is impressive such as granddad standing next to Donald Campbell's BlueBird at Lake Eyre.
I take some photos during a trip, delete most after the trip and then archive those.
I think it's handy to bring back memories that seem to be fading nowadays. I visited a friend recently who has a cork board full of photos. I saw myself in one photo and asked where it was. He explained to me where and it took me weeks to remember that bushwalk. I still don't remember the other chap that walked with us. Maybe photos could help with dementia?
Mike Harding said
11:29 AM Feb 6, 2022
Despite being a keen photographer (use to develop my own) I take very few photographs these days and rarely look at old pics. However I do take the odd bit of video which is usually posted to my website.
As for looking at other people's pics: I am usually prepared to *provided* they give me the photographs/iPad/controller so I can view them at my own speed.
Why do people showing you a pic feel the need to also provide a ten minute verbal description of something you've never seen, never will see and have little to no interest in? But if I've already moved on five pics they can't easily do that :)
DMaxer said
01:01 PM Feb 6, 2022
Even worse Mike, is when one of these photos of some place you had no intention of going to or any interest in contains a person they met on their travels. You are then given the life story of someone you don't know and will never meet.
A few years back I went on this whale watch boat. The trip went for about 2 hours and was fabulous. We parked up about two miles offshore and all these whales and their calves came right up to the boat, dived under the boat and just hung around. We were just metres from them and it was one of the greatest sights I had ever seen. Anyway, this bloke on the boat had more cameras, tripods, lenses and other stuff than you could poke a stick at. He spent so much time checking lenses, trying different angles and yapping away into a tape recorder that he missed just about the whole event. By the time this galah had everything set up the whales had all swum off. The ride back to shore was really pleasant, having a drink and a bit of a yap to the others on board but this guy did not join in. He was too busy packing up all his camera gear and working out which bag each thing went into.
Are We Lost said
01:15 PM Feb 6, 2022
I remember back to days when I would dread going to some peoples homes after they had been away on a trip because the photo albums would come out. Once the recent travels were done, it would move onto other travel , their family and anything else they were interested in. So I think photos are really only for your own benefit, and nobody else will be interested.
I save my travel (and other) photos to PC and remove duplications, those lacking interest, or poor quality. Then pass what is left through Lightroom, improving any that need it. Then they get filed away logically.
Maybe once every couple of years I run an automated slideshow on the TV. My partner can't keep her eyes off the screen as memories keep flooding back. My daugters and their families have zero interest. It would have to be of something like an alien spaceship landing. I think part of the reason is the flood of amazing images that appear on the internet every day. In comparison a photo of a view or a historical monument, a mountain or even your grinning facade doesn't mean much.
I think if you were there, you will like to have those memories refreshed, but not otherwise. And certainly not seeing them regularly like as a screensaver.
There is also a rapidly growing trend for photos to be "enhanced" with unnaturally rich colours. I hate that effect, but I see multitudes of glowing comments on social media about photos that look ridiculous to me. Times change.
RichardK said
01:18 PM Feb 6, 2022
I agree, we have many many pics of trips loaded on the computer which I hardly look at, however I have 4 or 5 sets of pics around 150 pcs each which I alternate as a background slideshow on my laptop, that works great, I don't have to stare at it but it rolls around all day and is a great reminder of the trip it shows.
Beats a boring static background.
Cheers
RichardK
Mike Harding said
01:59 PM Feb 6, 2022
DMaxer wrote:
Even worse Mike, is when one of these photos of some place you had no intention of going to or any interest in contains a person they met on their travels. You are then given the life story of someone you don't know and will never meet.
Should be a capital offence.
I once had a friend who was a real sci-fi nut and would, at considerable length, tell a group sitting around a campfire, in great detail, his interpretation of some crap sci-fi novel he had recently read!
Also, I recall one female partner who was rather taken aback when, early in our relationship, one morning at breakfast as she began to tell me about the dream she had last night and I put up my hand and said; "Stop! I have no interest whatsoever in the ramblings of your unconscious mind." No more dream stories after that :)
SoloMC said
02:00 PM Feb 6, 2022
Dmaxer
I doubt he was a pro if he took that long to set up but maybe, especially if he was recording details
I used to have 2 camera bodies/lenses hanging from the harnesses to ensure I got everything, long/short but I used to get paid for it
86GTS said
02:19 PM Feb 6, 2022
My wife's parents lived in a war service home in a war service area near an army camp.
Their whole life revolved around war memories & the nearby RSL.
They did a trip up & down the Stuart Hwy, calling in at every WW2 site/monument.
My father-in-law didn't see any action in the war but he did spend a lot of time on supply conyoys from Adelaide to Darwin.
He had the time of his life shooting Roos & Bustards roasting them in the campfire.
He also participated in lots of other larrakin stunts, almost every day.
We spent around 5 hours watching reel to reel footage of his Stuart Hwy trip with his commentary about each site & what he had done there during the war.
As we sat there riveted to the screen he plied us with a flagon of cheap port.
I ended up nodding off, it was so boring!
Good on him though, they were his memories & he was a great bloke.
Bobdown said
02:39 PM Feb 6, 2022
I have been known to check out a set of photos from a trip every now and then on the PC, usually looking for something in particular.
Like Richard, I have about 50 on rotation as a screensaver which is good to bring back memories.
DMaxer said
02:52 PM Feb 6, 2022
When I was just a little kid, back in the fifties, our local church would have a fund raiser night in the church hall which consisted of a few cartoons for the kids before settling back into a couple of hours of slides delivered by one of the local bores. The kids would sit down the front, behind them would be the mothers and up the back, well out of sight would be the dads having a few beers. The cartoons were generally Woody Woodpecker ,Mickey Mouse and maybe Bugs Bunny. The slides would consist of someone's holiday together with droning commentary and hopeless attempts at humour. I think the lowest point was when the holiday slides came to an end and the town bore then gave us all about 30 minutes worth of slides of gardens and flowers he had seen in his travels. Anyway, we were on about slide ten of stinking rogers or some other flower from every angle when the projector blew up and started smoking. All the kids and probably most of the adults, thought it was hilarious. When we got home I was telling my dad (who refused to go anywhere near these fundraisers) about what had happened and he looked at my mum and said "church hall, yes, even the good lord couldn't put up with that crap".
Gaylehere said
06:13 PM Feb 6, 2022
I take lots of photos which I put on my laptop, but I do this only for myself (hubby does have a look when first loaded onto laptop). I use some of them for "Pick this Place" either placing a photo up or looking for the answer to someone else's photo and to recall camping spots if we travel on the same roads as before at some stage. The last few years I've written a bit of a diary also which includes a few notes on what we've seen that day, what facilities were at camps and everyday expenses. But again I do this for myself and I don't expect the kids, grandkids to keep these records. Every now and then I give myself a photo night. I also have lots of photo albums from years gone past before digital cameras and computers that sit in the back wardrobe and are rarely looked at. Cheers.
86GTS said
07:40 PM Feb 6, 2022
We regularly change our laptop & home computer screen images from our travels over many years, but capturing images of places that we've been to as sort of proof that we've actually been there seems a little pointless these days.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Monday 7th of February 2022 04:21:43 AM
StewG said
04:38 PM Feb 7, 2022
I take lots of digital photos and have scanned many of my parents' old photos. These are cycled through as a slide show on the desktop of my PC and bring me a great deal of pleasure for the memories invoked. As for what happens to them when I'm gone, I leave that up to my kids and grandkids. I won't be around to bewail such things being tossed out nor delight in them being treasured. I do treasure photos that my grandfather took and letters that he wrote, although he died over 100 years ago.
-- Edited by StewG on Monday 7th of February 2022 04:38:50 PM
After all four of our parents passed away, like many others we were left to sort out their belongings after they died.
Both of our parents were keen caravaners & had traveled extensively throughout Australia. Great!
We inherited hundreds of hours of video footage & thousands of 35mm slide photographs that they had taken along their way.
We tried to make an effort to watch/see as much of them as possible.
Obviously they meant far more to them than us.
We found them totally boring despite all of the exciting places that they had been.
This got us thinking about whether it was worth recording all of OUR travels because they won't mean anything to our children when we pass away.
Also, we are too busy traveling & creating memories along the way to be looking back at what we have done.
We came to the conclusion that it seems like a waste of time taking too many images & thought it was better to recall our travels from memory while we still have one.
Happy travel memories mean a lot to those that shared them but virtually nothing to those that didn't.
What do others think?
I agree. If you want to ,take a few (just a few) Pics. - easy now with phones and Pics can have Date and Location automatically - to keep the memories alive for yourself during the following few years but be aware that generally anyone else is soon bored/not interested in looking at them . Just enjoy the travel without being tied to "record keeping" .... KB
I agree. I have just experienced the same situation. If you want to ,take a few (just a few) Pics. - easy now with phones and Pics can have Date and Location automatically - to keep the memories alive for yourself during the following few years but be aware that generally anyone else is soon bored/not interested in looking at them . Just enjoy the travel without being tied to "record keeping" .... KB
I also do a bi monthly update with photos and post on this forum and also email to friends and family that like to follow my choice of living. My daughters print them off and put in a memory book for my grandkids. What they do with that book as they get older is up to them. My 13 year old granddaughter is often seen laying on the floor reading her book of Poppy's travels.
Every now and then I go to pics or documents to get info or check on something for whatever reason.
It doesn't take up much of my time and anyway, I'm retired so have plenty of time.
Keep Safe out there.
We have never attempted a blog, but did for a number of years produce an annual CD of our travels. It was clearly eagerly anticipated by friends, but no more.
I have though, kept a cronological digital pictorial record of our travels for many years, from our honeymoon in 1967 (and even before that) and on and that is useful to provide information about experiences and conditions that we still enjoy and that we can share with others, when appropriate.
I find that these pics are useless if not digitised.
Refueling on the way to Darwin, 1967.
Cheers,
Peter
I was recently looking through old slides looking for a particular image. Was thinking that no one will be interested in 99.9+% of them. So at some stage I will start chucking out slides. Maybe the ultimate goal is say 100 images. Plenty of other things to chuck out first!
Pat has notebooks that belonged to her passed grand parents, great grand parents who were engineers, surveyors of Newcastle, etc. We'll make them available to some museums as what is written is quite important to history. For those who live in Newcastle, the main street is named after her family member who surveyed the city.
A couple of years ago however, she convinced me to throw out a lot of my Darwin, Radio Australia, & Ceduna slides - now I regret it as there are some great ex PMG, Telecom, Telstra staff Facebook pages where they could have been shown to other prior & later workmates.
Pat also has hand written letters of her earlier family's travels through life, travelling by ship from England to Australia, going through both world wars, being sunk by enemy action - now we send emails which last 10mS, a day, a week or a year & once deleted - it's gone!
Even in current times our kids & grand kids aren't really interested in our travels, they're busy living their own lives, which is fair enough.
We don't expect them to show much interest in what we're doing.
They are keen for us to get out there & travel safely which is all that is to be expected.
We too have been traveling extensively since we got married in the early 70's.
We didn't leave it all up until we retired thank goodness.
We very occasionally try to look back at the photos that we took on those trips but find it a bit of a chore.
Looking at old images is a bit like, how often do you get your wedding album out & flick through it.
Shared memories of our travels are the most important thing to us.
To us taking lots of photos & keeping a travel diary like we used to do seems like a waste of time nowadays.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Sunday 6th of February 2022 05:10:39 AM
jade46 hi.
For these reason you give is probably the main reason I take only a hand full of photos these days conpared to say even 4 years ago.
I be out snapping photos every chance I had, then one day I smelt the Roses and now I am enjoying the moment, still take a photo of where we are for later for later.
A computer full of thousands of digital photos will never match a shoe box of old black and white prints. The mystery holding that print is totally awesome.
I have 50 litres of slides that I inherited from my father and his father. Most are boring but now and then I see something that is impressive such as granddad standing next to Donald Campbell's BlueBird at Lake Eyre.
I take some photos during a trip, delete most after the trip and then archive those.
I think it's handy to bring back memories that seem to be fading nowadays. I visited a friend recently who has a cork board full of photos. I saw myself in one photo and asked where it was. He explained to me where and it took me weeks to remember that bushwalk. I still don't remember the other chap that walked with us. Maybe photos could help with dementia?
Despite being a keen photographer (use to develop my own) I take very few photographs these days and rarely look at old pics. However I do take the odd bit of video which is usually posted to my website.
As for looking at other people's pics: I am usually prepared to *provided* they give me the photographs/iPad/controller so I can view them at my own speed.
Why do people showing you a pic feel the need to also provide a ten minute verbal description of something you've never seen, never will see and have little to no interest in? But if I've already moved on five pics they can't easily do that :)
Even worse Mike, is when one of these photos of some place you had no intention of going to or any interest in contains a person they met on their travels. You are then given the life story of someone you don't know and will never meet.
A few years back I went on this whale watch boat. The trip went for about 2 hours and was fabulous. We parked up about two miles offshore and all these whales and their calves came right up to the boat, dived under the boat and just hung around. We were just metres from them and it was one of the greatest sights I had ever seen. Anyway, this bloke on the boat had more cameras, tripods, lenses and other stuff than you could poke a stick at. He spent so much time checking lenses, trying different angles and yapping away into a tape recorder that he missed just about the whole event. By the time this galah had everything set up the whales had all swum off. The ride back to shore was really pleasant, having a drink and a bit of a yap to the others on board but this guy did not join in. He was too busy packing up all his camera gear and working out which bag each thing went into.
I remember back to days when I would dread going to some peoples homes after they had been away on a trip because the photo albums would come out. Once the recent travels were done, it would move onto other travel , their family and anything else they were interested in. So I think photos are really only for your own benefit, and nobody else will be interested.
I save my travel (and other) photos to PC and remove duplications, those lacking interest, or poor quality. Then pass what is left through Lightroom, improving any that need it. Then they get filed away logically.
Maybe once every couple of years I run an automated slideshow on the TV. My partner can't keep her eyes off the screen as memories keep flooding back. My daugters and their families have zero interest. It would have to be of something like an alien spaceship landing. I think part of the reason is the flood of amazing images that appear on the internet every day. In comparison a photo of a view or a historical monument, a mountain or even your grinning facade doesn't mean much.
I think if you were there, you will like to have those memories refreshed, but not otherwise. And certainly not seeing them regularly like as a screensaver.
There is also a rapidly growing trend for photos to be "enhanced" with unnaturally rich colours. I hate that effect, but I see multitudes of glowing comments on social media about photos that look ridiculous to me. Times change.
Beats a boring static background.
Cheers
RichardK
Should be a capital offence.
I once had a friend who was a real sci-fi nut and would, at considerable length, tell a group sitting around a campfire, in great detail, his interpretation of some crap sci-fi novel he had recently read!
Also, I recall one female partner who was rather taken aback when, early in our relationship, one morning at breakfast as she began to tell me about the dream she had last night and I put up my hand and said; "Stop! I have no interest whatsoever in the ramblings of your unconscious mind." No more dream stories after that :)
Their whole life revolved around war memories & the nearby RSL.
They did a trip up & down the Stuart Hwy, calling in at every WW2 site/monument.
My father-in-law didn't see any action in the war but he did spend a lot of time on supply conyoys from Adelaide to Darwin.
He had the time of his life shooting Roos & Bustards roasting them in the campfire.
He also participated in lots of other larrakin stunts, almost every day.
We spent around 5 hours watching reel to reel footage of his Stuart Hwy trip with his commentary about each site & what he had done there during the war.
As we sat there riveted to the screen he plied us with a flagon of cheap port.
I ended up nodding off, it was so boring!
Good on him though, they were his memories & he was a great bloke.
I have been known to check out a set of photos from a trip every now and then on the PC, usually looking for something in particular.
Like Richard, I have about 50 on rotation as a screensaver which is good to bring back memories.
When I was just a little kid, back in the fifties, our local church would have a fund raiser night in the church hall which consisted of a few cartoons for the kids before settling back into a couple of hours of slides delivered by one of the local bores. The kids would sit down the front, behind them would be the mothers and up the back, well out of sight would be the dads having a few beers. The cartoons were generally Woody Woodpecker ,Mickey Mouse and maybe Bugs Bunny. The slides would consist of someone's holiday together with droning commentary and hopeless attempts at humour. I think the lowest point was when the holiday slides came to an end and the town bore then gave us all about 30 minutes worth of slides of gardens and flowers he had seen in his travels. Anyway, we were on about slide ten of stinking rogers or some other flower from every angle when the projector blew up and started smoking. All the kids and probably most of the adults, thought it was hilarious. When we got home I was telling my dad (who refused to go anywhere near these fundraisers) about what had happened and he looked at my mum and said "church hall, yes, even the good lord couldn't put up with that crap".
We regularly change our laptop & home computer screen images from our travels over many years, but capturing images of places that we've been to as sort of proof that we've actually been there seems a little pointless these days.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Monday 7th of February 2022 04:21:43 AM
I take lots of digital photos and have scanned many of my parents' old photos. These are cycled through as a slide show on the desktop of my PC and bring me a great deal of pleasure for the memories invoked. As for what happens to them when I'm gone, I leave that up to my kids and grandkids. I won't be around to bewail such things being tossed out nor delight in them being treasured. I do treasure photos that my grandfather took and letters that he wrote, although he died over 100 years ago.
-- Edited by StewG on Monday 7th of February 2022 04:38:50 PM