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Queen Anne

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Queen Asso

[WarpGirl]

Awe! Lovely pictures. Asso You're wife looks like she could be my gandmother's sister OMG we could be related!!!!!!!!! I'm glad you both love each other so much. And dude watch out she looks like quite a good shot with a gun! I bet you behave with that knowledge. Now if only my father was so wise.

JT I'd kill to gain 15 lbs. It's NOT IMPRESSIVE!

Alelou In my family and in the local hospitals I am quite notorious. But the fact is the internet can be a dangerous place, I don't need my face on it.

[justTripn]

I believe that pictures of me are "protected" by the crowd of other picture and interesting content out there. That is, they will languish in obscurity due to everyone else's pictures. I was just about to get on to cheer up Alelou with that thought, lol . . . (She was worried students would discover her presence at a Star Trek convention). Nah . . .

[Aquarius]

Aquarrius, When did you cut your hair? I remember seeing a picture where it was long.

I used to have really really long hair - to the middle of my back. It was thick and pretty........and then my alopecia came out of remission 3 years ago.

I think I first cut it short in July. I was NOT happy--not because of remorse (I used to wear it 1/4" long so I wasn't scared or anything), but long story short: the edgy cut and color I asked for ended up looking like "Let's get high in your parents' basement and do your hair." Nothing artistic about it, the color just looked like a bunch of crunked up B.S. and I couldn't work with the cut AT ALL. My friend cut it and she usually does a good job, but sometimes she has these really cracked out moments and you end up with "WTF???"

So, after suffering with it for about a week and a half, I had her recut it and color it all dark. I ended up liking the short, but I'm bored already. I miss my bold color and having hair I can wear curly or straight. In this picture you can see the hilites we added this time, but it's just not the same. So I think I'm growing it, but it'll be boring for a while before I get it back to a length where I can really rip into it again.

If I may ask, do you know what's causing your alopecia? The only cases I have first-hand experience with are stress-generated--in fact I have a spot on my own head about the size of a dime that I lose every so often whenever life becomes too much, but eventually my body learns to cope with the rest of me and it comes back. A former coworker of mine had a client that had it so bad she'd been wearing wigs since she was a little kid (she was college age when I worked with her stylist) so she'd come in and have my coworker style her wigs for her. Under them, she had maybe ten hairs on her whole head. Super-nice girl and I felt bad for her, but she learned to cope with it by rocking various wigs as a fashion statement.

[Aquarius]

Actually I think what really threw me was the fact you were dressed so conservatively, I expected much flashier.

Well, I can honestly say I was the only one there in bright red jeans, and you can't see my boots in the picture. My hair used to be much bolder so my wardrobe reflects that; my hair made the statement so my clothes didn't have to--I'm not into being a cliche or a stereotype.

My makeup in the pic is metallic gold and copper, my usual fall pallette, and I think it just didn't show up well on my crappy camera phone.

[Asso]

Queen Anne

becomes
Queen Asso

My dear friend, how I missed your good hand! I remember with great pleasure all the masterpieces you made, and I'm very glad you didn't lose your skilfulness.
But now I have a problem: how the hell will I be able to show this portrait to my wife?

[Linda]

I am taking some web design classes. Recently I had an HTML class and today we had a Dreamweaver class. They mentioned that after saving (copying) a photo (jpeg) about 4 or 5 times you start to notice deterioration in the quality. Darn. I copy the photos from the chip from my camera into my laptop, then onto the flash drives I use as backup. Then I delete the photos from the chip because I reuse it. So the original photo is gone which is the best one. But cleaning up the old prints from non-digital cameras with photoshop after scanning them into a computer sounds promising. I guess after you clean them up, you should not re-copy them very much.

[Silverbullet]

Wife and I have loads of Photos in boxes. We had been travelling around the world and took a lot of camera photos. always meant to put in albums but was never together with the photos which were in storage (some for 20 years). Now, we have the boxes stakced in our garage. wonder of it might have been better if we had boxes of sticks instead. Less room.

Problem is, if we try to pur them in albums now we won't remember who is in the photos or where they were taken. Daughter says she is going to tie us in a chair until we have them all in albums else she will have to do it after we go to our reward.

[Asso]

Those photos, Silverbullet, are a true treasure. They should be like.. like - I don't know - like a life testimony?

[Alelou]

Wife and I have loads of Photos in boxes. We had been travelling around the world and took a lot of camera photos. always meant to put in albums but was never together with the photos which were in storage (some for 20 years). Now, we have the boxes stakced in our garage. wonder of it might have been better if we had boxes of sticks instead. Less room.

Problem is, if we try to pur them in albums now we won't remember who is in the photos or where they were taken. Daughter says she is going to tie us in a chair until we have them all in albums else she will have to do it after we go to our reward.

Aren't you in Florida now? Florida heat and humidity (and bugs) can really do a number on old photos in a garage. Don't forget to check on their condition!

Hurricanes can do a number too. Number one reason to digitize, IMO. Not that I've done it myself, but I don't have a lot of hurricanes or floods to worry about here, knock wood. Guess I should be thinking about the wood stove, though. Backing up all the important stuff electronically is one of those things on the list of things to do that I never seem to get around to.

I think it can be more fun to do an old project like this if you take your favorite pictures and make them into videos. I did that with my parents' wedding photos (and others) for their anniversary and it made what would have been just a tedious chore kind of fun. Plus they and their friends got a real kick out of it.

[Alelou]

I believe that pictures of me are "protected" by the crowd of other picture and interesting content out there. That is, they will languish in obscurity due to everyone else's pictures. I was just about to get on to cheer up Alelou with that thought, lol . . . (She was worried students would discover her presence at a Star Trek convention). Nah . . .

I wouldn't want my students finding the stuff I have in decon ... otherwise, I don't much care, and I've already confessed to being a Trekkie in one or two of the classes. I wouldn't want anyone who makes hiring decisions to know, however. At least not until I'm a lot more comfortable. On the whole, though, this faculty is extremely laidback and friendly and sharing compared to the vicious shark tanks I've seen at universities.

[Silverbullet]

Alelou, Arizona, Sonoran Desert. Dry heat. No hurricanes, floods, forest fires, earthquackes, no natural disasters at all. Just hot as the Hubs of Hell. But my stuff was stoed all over the damned World, Belgium Washingto n D.C. Washington State. I got some once that looked like it had been stored at the bottom of a lake. It is hard tellig what condition they are in. I will say, though that the old film prints hold up a lot longer and take more of a beating than one could believe. I have photos of my Grandmother when she was a yong girl and that was back at the turn of 1899-1900. Still in good condition.

[Alelou]

Well, desert is probably pretty good for photographs. At least you shouldn't have to try to peel them off each other.

[justTripn]

Actually keeping photos in boxes is a good way to go. Some kinds of photo albums destroy photos. I know that the photo albums I kept as a kid disintigrated and the pictures in them faded badly, so I purposely removed remaining photos from albums with similar plastic holding them down. I have a friend about five years older and the pictures of her youth have faded almost to nothing (held in the same type albumn), including a fiance who died before they were able to get married. Meanwhile, she has pictures of her parents in their youth which still look good. Or maybe we can blame those early color photos relative to the previous black and white.

[Alelou]

There are lots of variables -- the acidity of the paper, the plastic, the chemicals used to process the prints, the temperature and humidity. I have some old black and whites that are in absolutely pristine condition compared to the fading/transforming colors of old color prints. Also, pictures exposed to UV light (out in frames, for example) can fade really badly.