One of the neat gifts I received for Christmas was an Eye-Fi SD card for our digital camera from my brother-in-law. It is as easy and useful to use as advertised. My attention was then caught by the following article referring to the fact that the company plans to release a free iPhone app for it. I’m loving Eye-Fi!
Expo: Eye-Fi unveils iPhone app | iPhone Central | Macworld.
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.
The other day we bought a new digital camera. This photo was one of several taken by Michele with the new camera while giving the kids a bath. I like the ability to turn a color photo into black and white with iPhoto.
Thanks to having yesterday off (it was Columbus Day here in the U.S.), we enjoyed a longer-than-usual weekend. Rather than try to finish unpacking boxes from the move and clean up the general mess, we decided to try to do some fun things. Saturday we visited a Japanese market called Mitsuwa Marketplace in Arlington Heights and enjoyed the sense that we were visiting that country. We picked up some red bean cakes and miso soup mix as well as some other things. It was quite stressful to shop there with four children in a very crowded store. Still, it was fascinating and worth the trip. Michele and I agreed that next time we go, we should pick a day that is less busy and preferably, sans kids. Sunday I went to church and then afterward, we drove up to Lake Geneva, just across the border in Wisconsin. Yesterday we decided to visit the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Much to their surprise, the kids really enjoyed it. The weather was nearly perfect for the trip, sunny but cool. I’ll add photos from the gardens to my Flickr account soon but in the meantime, I loaded some new photos of the kids taken over the weekend by Michele and me with our new digital camera.
This is a short Quicktime movie taken by Keegan with his digital camera. Godzilla Tristan terrorizes a poor, innocent Beanie Baby out for a car ride…