Technology & memories

It's a bit disappointing when you get a letter you've been expecting for weeks, and it arrives empty due to 'damage in transit'.Our cousin sent us a memory stick, with pictures from the past 4 years and times we'd spent together. This included some photos of Pa, as well pics of our UK wedding...very precious memories for both of us. Thankfully, with the marvels of modern technology, Graeme just buys another memory stick and sends them to us again.

I'm fairly passionate about photos, I like to record life, people and places. I guess I'm a bit of a shutterbug, and it's something my dad did - when I look back at the slides and later photos that he took, there are tons on them from a pre-digital age. Remember that? His Gibraltar photos are amazing, and as for this shot of the Barclays Bank in Ghana... That's another project to revisit, for another time.

In scanning all my negatives, I've been reminded of a project mum and I started about 14 years ago - an attempt to photocopy pics of her, daddy and us kids from their and our youf, to make a book. 1 for me and one for Andy. Again, photobooks are now a marvellous invention and a way we can revisit this idea, in a time when the technology makes it considerably easier to achive. And the fact you can get Sesame Street/ Dora books telling a story with your child in it, is just unbelievably fantastic. How things have changed.

After daddy died, my uncle gave me some photos to scan in, along with a colour wedding pic of mum & dad. I'm not sure what inspired me to do it, but Roh kindly cleaned it up and we gave it to mum as a present. Apparently she didn't have any colour pics of their wedding and it went down a treat :o)

I left my photo albums, care of mummy, in the UK. I didn't trust them to be shipped and so having the negatives, though it's time consuming, has probably meant I'm seeing pics I hadn't looked at in years. It's all very well having the albums, but you do need to go through them occasionally. I wonder who I'll find next ...