Sunday Photo Blogging

Still working on sorting photos, and I've got one storage box almost full. I'm slowly bringing order out of chaos, but there's still an awful lot of chaos to deal with. (I've also got several trays of slides and a lot of older postcards that I want to sort and scan, so I'm going to be working on this for a long, long time).

Speaking of photos, I've decided to start scanning and posting some of them, beginning with this one:


This was taken at my grandparents' house in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky (which is in the northern part of the state, right across the river from Cincinnati). I'm not sure exactly when it was taken (the back of the photo only says "September"), but I'm guessing it was sometime in the early 1960s.

New Links

Please note that I've added two links to my sidebar--Scooter's Homepage and Scooter's Photos.

Scooter's Photos is my photo space on Yahoo!. So far the only thing I have there is four albums of pictures of my niece Emelia, but I'm going to add some albums when I get around to buying a digital camera and taking some new pictures. I'm also thinking about creating some albums for some of the older pictures that I'm working on organizing, but I haven't decided yet.

Scooter's Homepage was originally created as a place where I could post very general news about myself, while all of the minor, day-to-day stuff would be posted on my blog. However, it hasn't worked out exactly the way I hoped it would, so I'm thinking about posting all of my personal news on my blog and using my home page for something else. (I have some very vague ideas about what I might do with it, but any and all suggestions are welcome.)

Sunday Photo Blogging

I finally bought a couple of photo storage boxes last week, so over the last few days I've been spending a lot of time going through some of the photos that I've already sorted and organized and making sure all of them are properly labeled. Which is what gave me the idea for today's post:

ALWAYS LABEL YOUR PHOTOS AS SOON AS YOU HAVE PRINTS MADE!

Don't put it off. Do it now while the details of each picture are fresh in your mind. Be sure to include dates, places, names, etc.

If you take a lot of digital pictures and keep them in a folder on your hard drive, keep a text file or handwritten list of all of the pictures along with information on each picture for future labeling or captioning. (There are several ways of adding caption bars or tags to digital pictures, but I don't want to recommend any of them until I've had a chance to try them out myself.)

If you have a lot of older pictures that you need help with, get the information you need from the relatives or friends who can give it to you now, while they're still alive and in good health and their memories are still intact.

I'm amazed and dismayed at the large number of pictures I have (some of which, I admit, are ones that I took and had developed) that are incompletely labeled (they may have dates and places but not names, or vice-versa, or they show the year they were taken but not the month), incorrectly labeled (two copies of the same picture have different dates and sometimes I have to make an arbitrary decision on which date to use), or not labeled at all. I'm going to do everything I can think of to fill in some of the gaps, but I know I'm still going to end up with a lot of photos, especially really old ones (from the early 1900s), that I won't be able to fully enjoy because I don't know anything about them.

Finally moved in

Welcome to my new blog . . . or rather, my new home for my old blog (scooterokc.bravejournal.com, which will be taken down on May 19th).

The biggest reason for the change is that I think I can do more with this space than I could with the old one. For instance, Bravejournal would only let me have a tag board and a limited number of my links in my sidebar. Blogger, on the other hand, will let me have links, lists, pictures, text and a few other things, and they don't impose any limits on how many links, lists, etc., I can have.

I also intend to work a lot harder at posting on a regular basis than I used to. If I can't think of anything that's going on in my life to post about, I'll come up with something else, even if it's just a website recommendation or a link to a good joke or cartoon.

I'm also open to suggestions for new additions to my links, especially the science fiction/fantasy links. If you know of one I might want to add, please e-mail me and let me know.