In case of an apartment flood, copies of my pictures will get soggy and I'm not so sure what'll happen when the big one (earthquake) hits California. I'm trying to say that I uploaded a few more pictures from paper to Flickr's data-centers. I wish I had organized and kept the tons of negatives I shot over the years. Trying to coax a suitable image off 25-year-old, yellowing paper is not always easy.
Every so often I upload a few fragments of my image past to An Old Box in the e-Attic. It's more than convenient to have a representative collection online. Wherever I am, as long as there's an Internet connection, I will have my photo albums with me. Quick! How quickly can you locate a photo of your grandmother? I can do so in seconds.
As I briefly mentioned yesterday, photos are best when shared. After all, you are reading something called, my eJournal and images. Honestly, what good is a photo album if the cover's never cracked open? The whole concept of sharing took on added meaning yesterday. In the evening, I scanned and uploaded eight more photos from Kuwait. I lived in that country from 1981 to 1983 as I was hired for my very first teaching job. I don't have many high-quality pictures from that era. I must have owned a very cheap camera at the time.
The resulting images may not have been stunning but they certainly did attract attention. In fact, I had an email waiting when I woke up. That is considerably different than when I worked there. It used to take two weeks for a postal letter to get to the US and another two for the return trip. Telephone calls used to cost a fortune. Going overseas was a much greater commitment than nowadays.
Now that nearly a quarter of a century has passed, my old photos have become valuable to others as well as me. Most people like looking at their past. The country has undoubtedly changed. There was even a war and all. People yearn to remember a time which seems simpler. My photos were re-posted on a Kuwaiti message board. Imagine that! And I didn't know that Google was working on Arabic to English translation.