In 1993 Mum and I went on a trip to Germany. On the way there we spent a day in Paris. Always the ardent photographer, I packed my point-and-shoot plastic 35mm camera loaded with a single roll of slide film. Upon our return I had the film developed, and was dismayed to find out that the film had gone bad and it had produced very thin slides. Recently, I took the slides to a photo store and paid them $100 to scan them in using their expensive slide scanner. I was very dismayed to find out that the scans all came out as pure white. Needless to say I got a full refund. Never one to give up, I bought my own scanner (which I have used to generate many Pictures Of The Week ). I was pretty happy with the results. This is a scan of a slide of Notre Dame cathedral. Remember that the expensive photo shop produced a uniform white image when they scanned this slide.

I like this shot a lot... it is a little askew, as per my usual shooting style, but I love the people that have been captured... frozen in time on the washed out slide... a man and his daughter... a couple with the man holding his jacket over his shoulder... another photographer trying to capture the scene... cool stuff.

Comments

Having the picture slightly washed out, makes it look like an old fashioned
picture. As if it was taken right after colour film was invented. It's a really
neat affect. I think it adds more character to an otherwise "touristy" picture.

You should make your comments automatically loop.

I will take a look at the comment code next time I have some free time.
I
originally wanted to be able to keep formatting information... for example to
do stuff like this:
     /~~~~~\
    / o   o \
    |	    |
    \ \___/ /
    
\_____/

But it is definitely possible to add word-wrap and still keep
formatting intact.
It just requires a bit of effort on my part.

Well, it turns out that doing that kind of formatting is nearly impossible in
HTML.  So I have compromised and done the word wrapping in my perl script. 
Unfortunately, that means I have to make a choice about how many characters to
allow on each line.  Right now I've chosen the good old-fashioned value of 80
characters per line.   That should make the page readable on any monitor, with
the downside that it will look kind of weird on high resolution monitors.

It looks fine to me. But, then again, I don't know what kind of monitor a
laptop has. You could probably make it double that, and it would still fit on
my screen.

I've tried to keep my site working on resolutions as low as 800x600.  In that
more, with Internet Explorer's default font size, the screen can hold under 100
characters of courier fixed width.  So I guess I will keep it at 80 for now...
though I might push it up to 100 if it gets too annoying.  ;)