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Stirling
[SoulCookie]

I just moved a batch of photos from my 1998 Scotland trip over to Flickr.

Through a combination of photographic technology advancing a lot in the last seven years…

(and the APS camera I took these with was so cool at the time)

…and poor compression…

(I paid extra to get copies of my pics on floppies - all bounded to a maximum height/width of 600px, as it turns out. :-()

…these aren’t anywhere the quality I remember them (and want them) to be.

I thought briefly about trying to get higher-resolution images pulled off the APS film carts again, but that’ll be a whole lot of expense that I don’t need for a very minimally incremental result.

Better to beg/borrow others’ digital cameras until I get my own and to take new pics.

Mission Viejo, California
[SoulCookie]

Thanks to a post in the Flickr blog, I discovered a cool new meme making its way across the ‘net:

Memory maps.

Basically, you take a screenshot of different places you’ve lived using Google Maps‘ new satellite photos, import those pics into Flickr, and use the Notes feature to annotate them.

There’s even a Flickr group where you can see others’ work.