Sitting in my hall cupboard, for many a year, is a case of transparencies – slide – yes images taken with real actual film, dating back well over a decade.
It’s been on my to-do list for a very long time, but I’ve taken the chance to start scanning them in – because these days a picture that doesn’t exist digitally might as well not exist at all, really.
They are labelled, and I think, somewhere, there is a key, but at the moment it is all a bit of a mystery (the boxes have got mixed up over time). I’ve done one with pics from Sri Lanka, Cambodia and I think India – I wasn’t really a bad photographer in those days, if a little over-fond of sunsets. (And these are done with a cheap scanner, so the colour and the sharpness are both a bit off – I do think the slides are better.)
Here’s a small selection…
Sri Lanka
If memory serves, this is an elephant sanctuary on the road between Colombo and Candy…
And this is at the main temple at Candy
This I think is the Preah Khan Temple at Angkhor Wat in Cambodia (I think they were clearing it from the jungle, so it might look quite different now..
And this is from the mystery collection, the unlabelled ones – I think it is India, and I suspect somewhere near Delhi. Anyone know (it is pretty distinctive!)
Don’t know whether it is worth really trying to do anything with these, but think I will try to find the time to scan the (not a quick process) just because then I can have them to hand, and at the same time revist all those memories.
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