This weekend I was able to spend some time scanning old photographs, negatives, and slides using a borrowed scanner with the needed features, such as an automatic photograph feeder and slide/negative attachment. It’s funny how many memories are contained in photographs, and how enjoyable it is to relive them when looking at them after a long time has passed! I was especially pleased to be able to dig out all of the photographs from our honeymoon in Kauai’i. They were in pretty good shape in spite of sitting in a box in the garage for five years! A set of these photos is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_oberg/sets/72157594351079029/

Some other photographs I was able to scan include ones from our wedding, as well as photos from a trip to Sweden in 2001, a trip to England in 1999, a few photos from one of my trips to the Boundary Waters, a few from a trip to New Mexico in 1998, and a few from my first trip to New Zealand in 1986.

During this process I thought about the fact that my kids mostly think of photographs as digital. We bought our first digital camera in 2002 and ever since then we have taken digital photos almost exclusively. They rarely see print photographs, and probably have never seen a slide!

I can’t wait to find the rest of my photos in storage, especially the slides, so that I can scan them all.