WAJDA PHOTO - A Trio of Photos of a Longtime Friend 

I was just thinking about Marty this morning and now I see these photos..nice

I have a box of photos that my parents left after they passed. Some of the photos are over 100 years old, and many of them are valuable keepsakes of my parents, relatives, friends, my siblings and our shared childhoods. I often wonder what will become of the hundreds, thousands, of digital photos on our iPhones and computers. What will become of those photos, will they even be around or seen by anyone 30 years from now, let alone a hundred years from now. Hard drives crash, memory sticks get lost, phones and computers get traded in, and so on. It seems to me that prints are still the best protection we have in preserving our past. I have boxes of prints that I treasure, the B&W prints are forever, the colour prints fade, but the negatives don’t.

BTW..this is Jose. In case you didn't know

You did what I want to do in my future , when I have a place to hang my existing works , and more ... display and create a habitation that celebrates my friends , and Life moments. That is why I am sort of bored with Digital ... I have shot more film and new work in film than Digital.... Kenneth also I need to update my digital platform anyway. Primarily my focus is on 4x5 and 35mm , have shot more 120mm lately with the 2 Rollei's a Wide Distagon 55 F4 ( clad by Harry ) , and my 10 blade MX-EVS Tessar 75mm F3.5 The quality of the Medium Format is in another league ... the 4x5 is slower work , more absorptive ....and we in Western Washington .. STILL have not had warmth or much brightness i the days. I remember Colorado from the 1980's driving Mine and Oil freight all over those high passes and the lovely little towns BEFORE they blew - up into Tourist's Mecca's ... I was 40 years younger too. Lovely days ...in the High Mountain West.

Kenneth, I was having a difficult conversation with my ex today about the fact that I was printing a very unflattering photograph that I took of her, on the ground, passed out in the dust after some violence. She asked me not to do that, to not print it. But I persisted and said it I need that printed then it should be no matter for you. She said that the image stayed with her all those years later now brought up in the idea that I was printing it. Printing images has so much of an affect. You have to do it. Like you said, it's all just lost if you don't. Even the bad times. That may even turn out good if you let them.