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Switched from slides to prints when it occurred to me I was never showing my slides to anyone anymore. Someone would ask about my hobbies and interests, and I would say "photography," and it would end there. Now I can put a few of my prints in a small album and offer to show them that way .. it's the only way to effectively "explain" what kind of photography I do.
I think that slides (transparencies) have been preferred by publications for printing photos. National Geographic was known for using mostly Kodachrome slide film, but I don't know what they're using now -- quit subscribing several years ago and never see the magazine anymore.
Hanging some of your prints is a good idea .. they make for very original art. It helps to have good lighting on them, I've found.
Sounds like your father was what we used to call an audiophile. I had a roomate in college in '63 who was an audiophile .. listened almost exclusively to classical music but would occasionally listen and seem to enjoy my Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul & Mary albums, so maybe folk music had a "crossover" appeal for serious music fans back then. Now on the rare occasion when I'm in a music store, I never see anyone who strikes me as an audiophile in the old-fashioned sense, what with the average age of the customers seeming to be about 16 and the "music" in the store being pretty rough on my old ears.
I was never particularly a fan of the Limeliters, but I do still have one of their LPs, a live album titled Tonight: In Person. According to the notes on the album, the concert was recorded in June 1960. I haven't listened to it in many years, so may have to put in on the turntable and refresh my memory on the Limeliters. I recently saw Glenn Yarbrough on a PBS fundraising special, and he still seemed to be in pretty good singing form ... much better than the Kingston Trio who also appeared and were getting a bit creaky of voice.
Congrats on getting the back forty mowed, as we say in Texas.
Justin
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