Thursday, 2 March 2017

An ancient Welsh woodland

I have recently been looking at some of my thousands of slides (transparencies) from the 1960s and 70s.  They tend to fall into a number of main categories - people, landscapes, architecture, plants and wildlife being the main ones.  I decided to show a few of them over the next few months.  This one is of beautiful ancient birch and oak woodland near Dolfriog in North Wales.



Posted by Scriptor Senex at 18:58

14 comments:

  1. Jenny Woolf2 March 2017 at 21:21

    What a lovely place. I belong to the Woodland trust which fights to preserve such places, ancient woodland takes centuries to get that way. Beautiful greens, I think slides show it better than digital, don't you?

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    1. Scriptor Senex5 March 2017 at 09:54

      There is certainly a difference between slides and digital photos. I'm not sure why. I too was a member of the Woodland Trust at one time but not at the moment - there are so many worthy charities aren't there.

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  2. Tabor2 March 2017 at 22:30

    It is interesting how some photos out of our huge collections still grabs us ad takes us back to that time.

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  3. Kay G.3 March 2017 at 02:07

    Really pretty.

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  4. Terra 3 March 2017 at 03:13

    What a beautiful scene of moss and trees.

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  5. Kate3 March 2017 at 03:22

    Lovely image John. May I ask how you are digitising them? The colours of my slides are still really bright... and of course slides were always the clearest sharpest way to store an image...

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    1. Scriptor Senex5 March 2017 at 09:59

      A few years ago I digitised some of my slides using a scanner that had a special fitting but that scanner died. Nowadays I use a 'Traveler' scanner for slides and negatives from Aldi. I don't think it's on sale any more but a similar (if more expensive) one is "TeckNet 5M/10M Slide, Negative and Black/White Film Scanner to SD Card With 1G SD Memory Card" from Amazon.

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  6. Librarian3 March 2017 at 07:22

    It is an enchanted forest, where I wouldn't be surprised to see the fairies dancing and a unicorn grazing in the distance!

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    1. Scriptor Senex5 March 2017 at 10:01

      Don't you have to meet certain qualifications to see a unicorn? Or is that just to capture one.

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  7. Helen3 March 2017 at 09:25

    Oooh I'm glad you're sharing these. Thank you.

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  8. messymimi3 March 2017 at 10:09

    That would be a perfect place to walk and dream, or maybe find some of the Wee Folk.

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  9. Liz3 March 2017 at 16:13

    It looks like a lovely place!

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  10. DawnTreader3 March 2017 at 17:40

    This is lovely, and such wonderful colours for an old transparency. Do you have special scanner for them or how does one do that?

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