6.02.2006

photos, panic

Last night we looked at all our photos from Peru. I have to say, they're pretty great. They're also a lot: 19 rolls of film and about 700 digital pics.

We were especially impressed with the quality of our digital pictures. Our digital camera is an inexpensive little model, very basic; I bought it only for blogging and emailing. But much to our pleasant surprise, the lighting, colour quality and definition of the photos were excellent.

I'm glad we're also using our conventional camera - a nice Olympus with a Vivitar wide angle/telephoto lens - especially since the little digital wasn't up to the task when it came to the Nazca lines. I can see eventually getting a higher quality digital camera, and going all digital the way most travelers have. Maybe for our next vacation.

So when are you going to see a selection of these pictures, you ask? (Yes, people have been asking.) I have June 15 writing deadlines, and the party on June 17, and my mother will be here next week. All good things, but they add up to a time crunch. Sometime this summer, we'll choose a couple of photos for each wmtc-goes-to-Peru post and update the blog. But it will have to wait.

I'm trying not to panic about the party preparations plus deadline convergence. It's not easy for me.

6 comments:

James Redekop said...

Will you be setting up a Flickr site, or just putting them here on the weblog?

(BTW, I got really lucky with some shots on a recent bike ride.)

laura k said...

I'm thinking I'll put a couple of photos up with each Peru blog post, then set up a Flickr account to post them in quantity.

Choosing pictures of Machu Picchu will be very challenging - we have so many!

Some of our photos of the Nazca Lines will need to be digitized, which should prompt us to get our scanner fixed or buy a new one. Right now both our scanner and printer are out of commission! We haven't been highly motivated to do anything about it, because we use equipment at work.

Off to look at your photos now...

James Redekop said...

If you want, we can do some scanning for you until you get things fixed. (Actually, I prefer to just use the digital camera and photograph the photos -- it's much faster. We've got a good tripod for that.)

James Redekop said...

I've posted a weblog entry on the photos... I have to remember to actually do that from time to time. :)

laura k said...

If you want, we can do some scanning for you until you get things fixed.

Thank you. :) I'll let you know.

Actually, I prefer to just use the digital camera and photograph the photos

Wow, I never thought of that. I doubt our digital would be useful for that, but I could try.

James Redekop said...

Actually, I prefer to just use the digital camera and photograph the photos

Wow, I never thought of that. I doubt our digital would be useful for that, but I could try.


I got that from my mother, who, as an art history teacher, regularly makes slides from books using an SLR on a special stand.

This photo was "scanned" that way, since we couldn't find the original and only had a framed print.