Starting Saturday morning I began scanning in photos from hundreds of black & white and color negatives along with a good many slides, some going back more than 40 years (as in the case of Caroline and her sister with their parents when they were just about 4 and 6). From trips with friends in the United States to some of my first photos, I shot in Europe back in the mid-1980s when I first visited Athens, Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, and spent a lot of time in the Frankfurt, Germany area. Scanned in a bunch of images from two different shows by Los Angeles performance artist Johanna Went back in the early ’80s. Caroline and I visited Euro Disney (as it was known back then; it’s now Disneyland Paris) for her 25th birthday in 1992 and we have the photos to prove it. Old embarrassing photos from my time in the military are now in the digital domain as are a few photos from my teen years in L.A during the late 1970s.

I scanned about 1,300 images out of approximately 13,000 images, such is my guess anyway. I’ll have to clean them up a bit and then I’ll get to adding them to my blog where almost no one will ever find them when they are buried behind the roughly 2,000 blog entries that are ahead of them.

We are on a tangent to clear out the crap we’ve been dragging around for years without even ever opening the boxes the stuff is hidden in. Next up I’ll start scanning photos that I didn’t find negatives for after I finish scanning old party flyers, ads in German techno magazines, concert tickets from David Bowie to Einsturzende Neubauten, record and CD covers we made, etc., so all of that bulk can join the trash can with the negatives.