21. I am into preservation and then sharing around the world
“I am leaving an electronic legacy for the world”
I use Picasa: www.picasaweb.google.com/lsmithtwin (2330 albums, 1.2 million photos)
Scanned over 40,000 slides One of my first slide shots 1964
22. I have a collection of over 2,000 glass negatives from the 1890s. These have all been
scanned and the world can enjoy them on Picasa. 4x5 up to 11x14
23. A print off an 8x10 glass negative…so different from today.
24. When my mother-in-law, Ruth Reed Boorman died we found boxes of slides,
negatives, documents and photos from 1890 on. I now have 10,000 scanned images
from her collection for the family. They are all preserved and shared.
25. Most of my electronic world is found on 4 Websites
1-https://www.rasmussen1889.info
2-https://www.smith-family.info
3-www.lloydslens.info
4-www.picasaweb.google/lsmithtwin
26. Get Organized!
I encourage you to organize your
photos so you can find them.
Get a system. Put them into
folders. This is the system I use
for almost 2,000,000 photos. My
computer has been upgraded to
16 terabytes, filled 3 terabytes.
27. Some samples of how I use photography
1-My son called me and asked if I had any photos
of my 18 year old granddaughter, Kaitlyn Smith. In
3 hours I had 1200 photos, 18 years of her life.
Probably a record for a grandpa. Had many more.
2-To honor my wife Helen Smith’s, 70th birthday I
put together an album of 3,000 photos. It took me
a year of sorting through 2,000,000 photos.
3-I have matched up objects in my folks’ photos to
objects we still have today…the Museum Project.
34. The Helen Project 1945-2015
Sorted through 1.5 million photos for 3,000 photos over 70 years
35. 1945 – The first photo of Helen. When Helen’s mother died we found thousands of
negatives in boxes in her apartment. They have all been scanned. 10,000 images
36. One of the houses that Helen was raised in. The snow blew through the cracks.
She remembers the outhouse well.
37. 1963 – Graduation photo
1963 – I started taking her photo,
been shooting Helen for 52 years
39. Helen Mae Boorman’s albums cover 70 years, 3000 photos, a world record for a husband
40. I will be sending out this PowerPoint later today, you can click on the
links to check out Helen or copy and paste.
Album 1: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow Up I (1945-1984)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpI19451984
Album 2: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow up II (1985-2008)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpII19852008
Album 3: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow Up III (2008-Present)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpIII2008Present
41. 3-The Museum Project
Old photos with an object still owned in the photo
1951 – Dad sitting on his milking stool. I still have the stool.
42. 1935 – Helen’s mother in her prom , graduation and wedding dress.
43. 1959 – Lloyd sitting at his desk, note the chair and slide rule, age 19
44. 2015 – Lloyd’s grandson Bennett Smith sitting at the same desk with the same slide rule
45. 2015 – The desk, the chair and the slide rule in the display