Some of the projects from my old website did not migrate to the new site, falling victim to the advance of Technology. Many images had a long side of 500 pixels at 72dpi. With high resolution monitors and smartphones, such small images would not look good. The world of digital imaging is very susceptible to advances in technology. I have film negatives and slides five decades old that can still be printed and shared with the audience, but a digital image that is only a decade or two old is so technologically obsolete it is not usable other than as a curiosity. Well, that and providing an example about how fast technology is progressing.
It was not the first time I've run into this problem. When I was working with the Town of Cary archives for the After the Memories projects the Town had a lot of important images, but they were scanned at the aforementioned 500 pixel width at 72 dpi, or they were of such poor quality they could not be digitized.
Here's one other observation on the woes of "old" technology. While assembling my new website several early projects left me quite puzzled. I had the raw files and unprocessed scans for the project. I also had the finished project as an acrobat file, but no intermediary work product. I have no idea where the missing files are located. It was like having an Oreo with no “stuff.”
I will probably go back and make some new “stuff” and re-do those few early folios. I would anticipate these revisited projects will look significantly better based on the advances made in Adobe software and there might be small improvement added by a more experienced user. I'll let you know when some of these revisited projects are loaded on my website.
OK, the last one from Williamsburg - for now at least. The Governor's Palace also doubled as an armory for the colony's militia. The entry hall walls are jam packed with muskets and swords. But the winter light was so lovely, how could a photographer resist?
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