06/11/2025
Attached to my main computer I have a total of 14 large external drives, over 200 terabytes of memory with thousands of files filled with videos and photos that I’ve taken for over 50 years. Of course 50 years ago there were no computers for consumers, photographs were either negatives, transparencies or slides, and just like us, they also got old and age is showing. So for the last 20 years I’ve been slowly attempting to stop the aging process by converting old film material into digital imaging, but old is old, or at least it was. AI technology is changing all that. I can take one of my photos that’s over 50 years old and with some AI restoration I can rejuvenate it and you couldn’t tell it apart from a photo taken yesterday, the magic of technology. I’m also very pro-nature, even before moving to Florida I’ve been coming down here on assignments and every assignment involved some nature photography, so I have a very extensive collection sitting in my hard drives, this prompted me to start a “Timeless Natural Florida” photo collection, all Black and White so nobody could tell if it’s new or old, and is mostly about nature, something slowly disappearing due to out of control developments. So far I have over 100 photographs and will continue growing every day. Visual preservation, if we continue to destroy nature in the future all will be left are photographs of the past, this is my tiny contribution.
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