The day after I posted about my back-ordered Epson V500 photo scanner, I got an email from Amazon saying that it had shipped! I guess this little blog pulls some weight around the Amazon offices 
It came in last week while I was on vacation and I just got it set up and running yesterday afternoon. So far I’ve scanned close to 50 images of both slides and black and white negatives from my old film days. It’s an awesome feeling to finally be able to get these old pictures on my computer so I can edit them, share them, and, most importantly, back them up.
It’s also exciting knowing that I can dust off my Nikon N70 and finally shoot some film again!
The picture you see here is an old shot of me during a mountaineering trip on Washington state’s Mt. Baker. I chose this picture because it was on this trip that I first became interested in photography. I barely remembered to pack a camera! Another guy on the trip lugged a big Nikon around the whole time and it wasn’t until the end of the trip that I understood why. My photographic interests have changed some since then but I still and will always love landscape photography because of this trip.
This photograph was taken with an Olympus point and shoot camera on Fuji slide film. I scanned it as a .tiff file and did some minor editing and cropping in Adobe Camera RAW. If I remember correctly, that’s the Coleman Glacier behind me.
Tags: epson, film, mt. baker, nikon, photography, scanner, travel
