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| La Alberca's Paza Mayor |
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| In Spain, every village has its own distinct design. My friend Lisa Ch, sporting the La Alberca village ring we both bought there (this pic from later that year, when we reconnected in NYC) |
"When my parents came to visit in Madrid last year, they brought with them some of my old photos, a box of a few hundred slides I’d set aside years ago. It was a random sampling of the uncounted thousands of Kodachromes and Fujichromes I have sitting in the not-so-archival environment of my parent’s damp basement in Toronto.
There are a lot of things I prefer about digital photography over film, but film has digital beat when it comes to looking at old photographs. You get to hold the actual original thing, for starters, and you can see it without having to plug anything in. Slides can’t be perfectly copied in a keystroke, they’re one of a kind. And for that same reason, you see them only once in a while. They get put into deep storage and get forgotten about until they surface sometime later, like artefacts from the past.
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| Photo copyright Spain by Mike Randolf |
It's a great story.
Mike also has some great photos, they are really worth a look.
