Clearing Out Cobwebs . . .

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The Spring Cleaning continues. As you can see here, things sometimes need to be cleaned out, including cobwebs in the mind, and the mind's eye . . .
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In fact, these scenes were in an abandoned house out on the island off the coast of Brittany where the rock concert photos of a couple posts back are from. A sublime corner of our paradise on Earth.
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While turning our own home inside out and shaking out dust and debris over these past few weekends, I came across another stash of negatives from photos taken back in the 1990's on mostly black and white film. With these as well as all that still remained to be converted to digital files from the main hoard, there are close to 4000 negatives to edit and scan. I've decided to invest in a digital scanner, which will be far cheaper than paying a lab to do the work. But it will take some time to go through them all, decide what to scan, and then do it. A labor of love in any case. Many of portraits of our daughters in there when they were still very little. A voyage back in time.
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Another rock turned over the other day took me back into my (large) collection of cassette tapes from the late 80's, all full of music that was near and dear to my soul, but which has largely lain un-listened-to in the last 20 years since I moved to France. Last week I found a fabulous little free piece of software on the web called Audacity which allows plugging a cassette deck directly into the PC, and then recording the music as MP3 files. So there are 16 tons of music lined up to get converted to MP3 and then to be copied to the iPod, to have a second life before the cassette tapes disintegrate. I'm amazed that after 20 years the tapes are still crystal clear. Will wonders never cease !
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Life is good . . .
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