Townhouses today are glorified logies, maybe that's where they got the idea to build townhouses. I recalled the late sixties when I would visit families in Cane Grove, some were well off while others lived in logies, I was given creek water to drink ,thinking it was swank, that is lime in sugar water, but when drinking I complained that the swank was not sweet. I slept on rice bag on dab mud floor with oil lamp for light,These families were farmers so one would see lots of bananas hanging in the rafters to get ripe, on night I saw a large snake, when I shouted an uncle of mine said don't worry , the snake is there to eat the rats. Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

kp posted:

Townhouses today are glorified logies, maybe that's where they got the idea to build townhouses. I recalled the late sixties when I would visit families in Cane Grove, some were well off while others lived in logies, I was given creek water to drink ,thinking it was swank, that is lime in sugar water, but when drinking I complained that the swank was not sweet. I slept on rice bag on dab mud floor with oil lamp for light,These families were farmers so one would see lots of bananas hanging in the rafters to get ripe, on night I saw a large snake, when I shouted an uncle of mine said don't worry , the snake is there to eat the rats. Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

Yes, I remember that. I was too young to go there by myself, so I ended up using the front drain that drained into the side line. That's what I was telling Warria that we sold the "shit eaters" to the people up town side. They enjoyed eating our used protein and vitamins enriched fishes. 

Gilbakka posted:

ball posted:

His last name is Dhanasar if you would like I can get you in touch with his son, Packaloo also had a song recorded, something likeOh my lord to where have you gone come into this world and see what is going on.   

 

 

Thanks Gilly.

Its emotional listening to this realistic song about our life in Guyana, because I was called Pakaloo so many times and I did not even knew the man.

As Ball suggested and as a buddy photographer in the 60s, I would like to know more about him  and if his negatives are still around, it will be bonus to my displays and presentations  about our  life in Guyana.

Thanks Bro.

Hold on, Komal Ram  !!....The pandit/head teacher  who assisted our training programs in Berbice was Komal Dhanasar.  Ball are they the same person ?

kp posted:

Townhouses today are glorified logies, maybe that's where they got the idea to build townhouses. I recalled the late sixties when I would visit families in Cane Grove, some were well off while others lived in logies, I was given creek water to drink ,thinking it was swank, that is lime in sugar water, but when drinking I complained that the swank was not sweet. I slept on rice bag on dab mud floor with oil lamp for light,These families were farmers so one would see lots of bananas hanging in the rafters to get ripe, on night I saw a large snake, when I shouted an uncle of mine said don't worry , the snake is there to eat the rats. Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

Thanks KP, a good description also of my life at Albion, with black friends from Fyrish, Rose Hall Town and Port Mourant.  

I believe greed and selfishness changed the people  in Guyana, that started with the first government after independence.

I also believe the dislike for each other was so intense, that it was difficulty to change the trend, that Guyana experiences today.

Its a place many of us still  love, but cannot return to live, as I would like to do.

skeldon_man posted:

kp posted:

 

 Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

Yes, I remember that. I was too young to go there by myself, so I ended up using the front drain that drained into the side line. That's what I was telling Warria that we sold the "shit eaters" to the people up town side. They enjoyed eating our used protein and vitamins enriched fishes. 

Skelly,

This has not changed much today with all kinds of garbage in the trenches where people fish. Sometimes an animal carcass is floating nearby.

If people are doing this now, what the hell they going to do when factories are closed ?

Everyone batta get a gun and start hitting de rich.

Tola posted:

skeldon_man posted:

kp posted:

 

 Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

Yes, I remember that. I was too young to go there by myself, so I ended up using the front drain that drained into the side line. That's what I was telling Warria that we sold the "shit eaters" to the people up town side. They enjoyed eating our used protein and vitamins enriched fishes. 

Skelly,

This has not changed much today with all kinds of garbage in the trenches where people fish. Sometimes an animal carcass is floating nearby.

If people are doing this now, what the hell they going to do when factories are closed ?

Everyone batta get a gun and start hitting de rich.

Tola, I have seen what you are saying here. I feel that Guyana has gotten worse since our time. My first return to Guyana in 1977, I was surprised to see the deterioration of a generation and the total disregard for the environment...like you said "garbage everywhere". Looked like it was "battle for the survival of the fittest". I have a lot of opinions, too much to write. I have gone back to Guyana many times and have not seen any effort to improve the situation.

skeldon_man posted:

Tola posted:

skeldon_man posted:

kp posted:

 

 Yes, the latrines.........................

Yes, I remember that. I was too young to go there by myself, so I ended up using the front drain that drained into the side line. That's what I was telling Warria that we sold the "shit eaters" to the people up town side. They enjoyed eating our used protein and vitamins enriched fishes. 

Skelly,

This has not changed much today with all kinds of garbage in the trenches where people fish. Sometimes an animal carcass is floating nearby.

If people are doing this now, what the hell they going to do when factories are closed ?

Everyone batta get a gun and start hitting de rich.

Tola, I have seen what you are saying here. I feel that Guyana has gotten worse since our time. My first return to Guyana in 1977, I was surprised to see the deterioration of a generation and the total disregard for the environment...like you said "garbage everywhere". Looked like it was "battle for the survival of the fittest". I have a lot of opinions, too much to write. I have gone back to Guyana many times and have not seen any effort to improve the situation.

Skelly, I took our two younger kids who grew up in Canada,  on a five week trip, that included Guyana.  We visited Skeldon and planned to have lunch at #63 beach. We got some nice lunches and took it to the beach, but our young daughter could not eat it  and demanded that we leave immediately.

I could see she was having difficulty coping  with the environment  of hundreds of empty beer bottles, discarded food and  a smelly dead animal in the bushes.

At the end of each day these kids would give me pocket full of wrappers from  the wedged cheese and other snacks, while  asking for the garbage can.  The friend who took us in his car said 'throw it on the ground, the whole country is a garbage heap'. The kids did not and found a fire pit'.

In our town we have Canada Day celebrations with thousands attending.  The grass is green everywhere, with not even one piece of garbage on the ground. In fact, last year while waiting in a food line, I saw a 10 year old girl picked up an accidently dropped napkin and place it in the garbage can. It was not even her napkin.

Unless children are taught about the environment from adults, everyone will continue to drop their garbage on the ground. Some Guyanese seems to have this bad habit in Toronto and New York.  

What makes some Guyanese so messy with their garbage. Was it the failure of past governments,  or parents did not care about raising their children ?

In my travels to many countries, Guyanese seems to have a more messy environment and are more selfish than others.  They had to learn this bad habit from somewhere.

Tola posted:

What makes some Guyanese so messy with their garbage. Was it the failure of past governments,  or parents did not care about raising their children ?

In my travels to many countries, Guyanese seems to have a more messy environment and are more selfish than others.  They had to learn this bad habit from somewhere.

A few times travelling in a taxi in Guyana, I have seen passengers throwing half empty pop bottles, wrappers, diapers and other food containers out the taxi window. I have even seen a driver threw stuff out. I might want to think this is something that was cultivated in the 70s. I remember having a burning pit in the back yard and we threw everything there and burned the pit every week.
I have seen the sugar estate trenches polluted with plastic containers. The Corentyne river can be seen floating with black plastic bags and milk jugs.

skeldon_man posted:

Tola posted:

What makes some Guyanese so messy with their garbage. Was it the failure of past governments,  or parents did not care about raising their children ?

In my travels to many countries, Guyanese seems to have a more messy environment and are more selfish than others.  They had to learn this bad habit from somewhere.

A few times travelling in a taxi in Guyana, I have seen passengers throwing half empty pop bottles, wrappers, diapers and other food containers out the taxi window. I have even seen a driver threw stuff out. I might want to think this is something that was cultivated in the 70s. I remember having a burning pit in the back yard and we threw everything there and burned the pit every week.
I have seen the sugar estate trenches polluted with plastic containers. The Corentyne river can be seen floating with black plastic bags and milk jugs.

Skelly, enforcement is the heart of any law.

When I go to aerobics at the family Y, I turn  left crossing a sold yellow line, that once had  break in the line.  I did this  for a while  and not realizing  what I was doing. Last week a police car was present,  because there must have been an  accident there previously.  He was not giving out tickets, but warning drivers of the illegal turn. Today all the drivers drove around the long way  to only turn right into the parking lot, with no police present.  

In Guyana, someone must have started throwing garbage on the ground. It  was illegal, but no one stopped them. Today everyone feels it is the normal thing to do.

After 50 years,  Guyana seems more backwards, than when the British were there.

I believe the first government after independence, set the tone for most of what is happening in Guyana today and its not getting any better.    

True dat Tola..it is the norm for many Guyanese.

I was away for a while now that I am back and reading this Tola I will contact the respective party to find out all that you have asked for. and in reading the experience of the childhood experience here, I see the need to more so enhance the nostalgic lives that we have suffered, good and bad alike. I will PM you with the details after I have it confirmed with his relatives.  

ball posted:

I was away for a while now that I am back and reading this Tola I will contact the respective party to find out all that you have asked for. and in reading the experience of the childhood experience here, I see the need to more so enhance the nostalgic lives that we have suffered, good and bad alike. I will PM you with the details after I have it confirmed with his relatives.  

Thanks Ball,  I really appreciate your efforts.

Between 1960-67, I took about 1000 photographs of everyday life  in Guyana and there are now requests  to do presentations of these photos in different countries. Mainly to look back at the life we left in Guyana and to learn, as our ancestors left India and Africa. It is also  to show our overseas born children how different our life in Guyana was to their  now.  Its an education and to form a link between the past and  present. 

For example, cutting wood, carrying it on your head, let it dry, splitting it vs turning a switch on the stove or pressing a button on a microwave to cook.

My photos also show Jagan at election campaign meetings, Berbice freedom march, bombings, British soldiers and a bayonet stab would on my stomach while photographing  Albion sugar workers protest for a new union in 1963.  DOWN WITH MPCA WE WANT GAWU. 

During the TRC inquiry I video recorded Canada First Nations residential school survivors stories. It was to tell their families and the inquiry, what makes them what they are regarding domestic violence  and substance abuse, because they were too ashamed to describe the abuse  directly to their families. Our Guyana story has similar examples of abuse, especially for women in weeding gangs, because Guyana was  another colony of Britain.

Do we ever wonder when our ancestors  are linked to  the names of overseas managers on sugar cane plantations. What type of relationship that was ? Was it mutual or abusive ?  

Tola posted:

ball posted:

I was away for a while now that I am back and reading this Tola I will contact the respective party to find out all that you have asked for. and in reading the experience of the childhood experience here, I see the need to more so enhance the nostalgic lives that we have suffered, good and bad alike. I will PM you with the details after I have it confirmed with his relatives.  

Thanks Ball,  I really appreciate your efforts.

Between 1960-67, I took about 1000 photographs of everyday life  in Guyana and there are now requests  to do presentations of these photos in different countries. Mainly to look back at the life we left in Guyana and to learn, as our ancestors left India and Africa. It is also  to show our overseas born children how different our life in Guyana was to their  now.  Its an education and to form a link between the past and  present. 

For example, cutting wood, carrying it on your head, let it dry, splitting it vs turning a switch on the stove or pressing a button on a microwave to cook.

My photos also show Jagan at election campaign meetings, Berbice freedom march, bombings, British soldiers and a bayonet stab would on my stomach while photographing  Albion sugar workers protest for a new union in 1963.  DOWN WITH MPCA WE WANT GAWU. 

During the TRC inquiry I video recorded Canada First Nations residential school survivors stories. It was to tell their families and the inquiry, what makes them what they are regarding domestic violence  and substance abuse, because they were too ashamed to describe the abuse  directly to their families. Our Guyana story has similar examples of abuse, especially for women in weeding gangs, because Guyana was  another colony of Britain.

Do we ever wonder when our ancestors  are linked to  the names of overseas managers on sugar cane plantations. What type of relationship that was ? Was it mutual or abusive ?  

Tola, you must have spent a lot of money on Agfa and Ilford. 120 or 620? Those were the only brands I saw in the 60s in Guyana.

Skelly, I used to get my supplies from Acme in GT. Both Agfa and Ilford 120mm. It is unfortunate that Acme closed down due to the popularity of digital and home printing. Sometimes it is cheaper to get my common prints done at a shop, than  to use my expensive printer ink.

I was fortunate to find a Canon 9000F Mk II Canoscan scanner  that will accept the larger 120 negatives, including slides and 35mm negatives. In our small town it was marked at CDN$250. but I got mine from Best Buy for $178. I retired a Canon 8800F.

Our kids in Canada used a 110 camera, but due to its small negative size I get prints made in Saskatchewan or Kansas. But I dislike sending my original negatives out of town and I am looking for a scanner  for them also.  

Tola posted:

Skelly, I used to get my supplies from Acme in GT. Both Agfa and Ilford 120mm. It is unfortunate that Acme closed down due to the popularity of digital and home printing. Sometimes it is cheaper to get my common prints done at a shop, than  to use my expensive printer ink.

I was fortunate to find a Canon 9000F Mk II Canoscan scanner  that will accept the larger 120 negatives, including slides and 35mm negatives. In our small town it was marked at CDN$250. but I got mine from Best Buy for $178. I retired a Canon 8800F.

Our kids in Canada used a 110 camera, but due to its small negative size I get prints made in Saskatchewan or Kansas. But I dislike sending my original negatives out of town and I am looking for a scanner  for them also.  

In the early 70's I took a couple classes in photography. I was only able to process B&W 35 mm films though. I had an Olympus RC35, later I graduated to an Olympus OM1. I still have it with the camera and two lenses.

Skelly, on a recent  assignment to India,  I also took  a small Olympus camera  for discrete shots. They are good cameras and I am pleased with the photos.

The Olympus OM1 looks similar to the Nikon F series [2] bodies and lens I bought in Japan  in 1969.  The Nikon F was the  first SLR camera made by Nikon. Previously the view finder and lens were located separately and sometimes the camera strap will be in front of the lens in the picture and not seen until the film is processed. I had a number of other Nikon film cameras after that.

My first DSLR was about 15 years ago, the Nikon D100 at 6.1.  A 512 GB card sold for $125. A few years later was the Nikon D200 at 12.  and then the Nikon D7100 a 24 .  The 7100 is my first camera that used two memory cards after a single camera card failed.  The D800 and 7100 as backup are my assignment cameras.

I earned about photography from experience. The Nikon F was a manual camera and needed skilled settings  to produce good photos. The newer camera are idiot proof, but I use mostly manual settings.  I did a course once for fun and was completing the assignments, before reading the text books.

It is hard to get rid of my Nikon F cameras  and manual lens, because they were my cameras when I worked at sea. I just sold cheaply a number of older cameras at a garage sale, but I kept some from the 1940s/50s, including my first metal body  polaroid camera from 1965.     

skeldon_man posted:

Tola posted:

Skelly, I used to get my supplies from Acme in GT. Both Agfa and Ilford 120mm. It is unfortunate that Acme closed down due to the popularity of digital and home printing. Sometimes it is cheaper to get my common prints done at a shop, than  to use my expensive printer ink.

I was fortunate to find a Canon 9000F Mk II Canoscan scanner  that will accept the larger 120 negatives, including slides and 35mm negatives. In our small town it was marked at CDN$250. but I got mine from Best Buy for $178. I retired a Canon 8800F.

Our kids in Canada used a 110 camera, but due to its small negative size I get prints made in Saskatchewan or Kansas. But I dislike sending my original negatives out of town and I am looking for a scanner  for them also.  

In the early 70's I took a couple classes in photography. I was only able to process B&W 35 mm films though. I had an Olympus RC35, later I graduated to an Olympus OM1. I still have it with the camera and two lenses.

The OM 1 was manual. I had and OM II also  I liked it because it was compact. A friend of mine brother Patrick Withers turned me on to photography. His father owned a soap factory in GT. He was older than we were and the ladies man on campus. He took pictures at the clubs.  A friend of mine sold me the two Olympias for a couple of hundred dollars. I later bought a full automatic Nikon GM and an F1. It was a cool way to get passes into every event at school....getting a photographer's pass

D2 posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Tola posted:

Skelly, I used to get my supplies from Acme in GT. Both Agfa and Ilford 120mm. It is unfortunate that Acme closed down due to the popularity of digital and home printing. Sometimes it is cheaper to get my common prints done at a shop, than  to use my expensive printer ink.

I was fortunate to find a Canon 9000F Mk II Canoscan scanner  that will accept the larger 120 negatives, including slides and 35mm negatives. In our small town it was marked at CDN$250. but I got mine from Best Buy for $178. I retired a Canon 8800F.

Our kids in Canada used a 110 camera, but due to its small negative size I get prints made in Saskatchewan or Kansas. But I dislike sending my original negatives out of town and I am looking for a scanner  for them also.  

In the early 70's I took a couple classes in photography. I was only able to process B&W 35 mm films though. I had an Olympus RC35, later I graduated to an Olympus OM1. I still have it with the camera and two lenses.

The OM 1 was manual. I had and OM II also  I liked it because it was compact. A friend of mine brother Patrick Withers turned me on to photography. His father owned a soap factory in GT. He was older than we were and the ladies man on campus. He took pictures at the clubs.  A friend of mine sold me the two Olympias for a couple of hundred dollars. I later bought a full automatic Nikon GM and an F1. It was a cool way to get passes into every event at school....getting a photographer's pass

I know the F1.

A camera is definitely a pass to events.

I was assigned by a paper to photograph Janet Jagan cremation and my press pass had not arrived. No problem, I used a business card with a Canadian phone company ID around my neck, that was never checked   and I could have been an assassin near all the dignitaries.

Tola posted:

Skelly, on a recent  assignment to India,  I also took  a small Olympus camera  for discrete shots. They are good cameras and I am pleased with the photos.

The Olympus OM1 looks similar to the Nikon F series [2] bodies and lens I bought in Japan  in 1969.  The Nikon F was the  first SLR camera made by Nikon. Previously the view finder and lens were located separately and sometimes the camera strap will be in front of the lens in the picture and not seen until the film is processed. I had a number of other Nikon film cameras after that.

My first DSLR was about 15 years ago, the Nikon D100 at 6.1.  A 512 GB card sold for $125. A few years later was the Nikon D200 at 12.  and then the Nikon D7100 a 24 .  The 7100 is my first camera that used two memory cards after a single camera card failed.  The D800 and 7100 as backup are my assignment cameras.

I earned about photography from experience. The Nikon F was a manual camera and needed skilled settings  to produce good photos. The newer camera are idiot proof, but I use mostly manual settings.  I did a course once for fun and was completing the assignments, before reading the text books.

It is hard to get rid of my Nikon F cameras  and manual lens, because they were my cameras when I worked at sea. I just sold cheaply a number of older cameras at a garage sale, but I kept some from the 1940s/50s, including my first metal body  polaroid camera from 1965.     

  

I liked the manual settings on the Olympus camera. My OM1 and RC35 were good. I used the ASA 80 and 400-speed film. We still have some of the negatives stored in envelopes. I bought a Nikon D50 a while ago and later decided to buy a D3000. I am not too much into photography these days. My wife does most of the "taking pictures" these days. We do have a 500 gig external hard drive that we store our pics.

Nikons are reliable cameras, as well as Canons, I am sure.  Since 1969 I did not have any serious trouble with my Nikons  and only sent them in for cleaning. Now the sensors are self cleaning, or you can program  the camera to do it, for clearer pictures.

I noticed one of the differences between the D200 and D3000 is the memory card.  The D200 uses one Compact Flash card that is now expensive to get. Some Canon high-end video cameras uses CF cards. The SD card in the D3000 is much easer to get.  I noticed the 16gb SD card was selling for  CDN$14.95.

With the D7100, I have 15 sets of 16 gb cards[ not putting all my eggs in one basket] that I use in pairs. They sit back to back to avoid the contacts, in small envelopes in a Ziploc bag in my camera bag.  When one card is  full,  I put it in my locked carry on bag. This is important because a colleague to our water project in Tanzania had her bag stolen with all of her photos.  They went after the bandit and got it back. So keep them separately.

With the easy of taking numerous digital pictures, documentation and storage are  very important. My first documentation starts with two cards taking the same photo in the camera, then to my computer, external HD and  burning two DVDs of the same photos.

I just try to look at some 2004 digital photos on disk and it was blank. But I got it in other storage. So other storage is also very important. 

Within minutes I can find a 1960 photo and surprisingly I started  documentation at the back of my proof prints, because 120 negative would not give me that information, but the year was printed on some slides.  I would use a blank slide and scribe the year and place it in slide slot in the tray to separate the years.  I am now scanning the 14,000 slides from 67-96 and its easy to ID the year.

Negatives tend to stick together with humidity and get damaged, so I keep all of my 60 negatives in separate envelopes.

Regarding your  500gb external HD. I did electronics  since 1967 and know its a man made device that could fail, so find an additional storage for your photos, Maybe sort them and burn on disks. At a certain resolution  of my camera, I can store 700 photos on one 4.7 gb disk.   

Your D50 that uses SD cards and my first digital D100 with CF cards  were both 6.1 mp. Nikon did not make their cameras in numbering sequence, so  its hard to tell randomly which was built first.

I believe the D100 was built before the D50, because of the cards they use.

kp posted:

Townhouses today are glorified logies, maybe that's where they got the idea to build townhouses. I recalled the late sixties when I would visit families in Cane Grove, some were well off while others lived in logies, I was given creek water to drink ,thinking it was swank, that is lime in sugar water, but when drinking I complained that the swank was not sweet. I slept on rice bag on dab mud floor with oil lamp for light,These families were farmers so one would see lots of bananas hanging in the rafters to get ripe, on night I saw a large snake, when I shouted an uncle of mine said don't worry , the snake is there to eat the rats. Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

My father started teaching at 15 at a place named Wash Clothes. It was either Mahaica or Mahaicony Creek. He told me similar stories. He said the fish used to jump in the air to catch to catch the feces before it hit the water where there was more competition. He said one time he looked up and saw a huge labaria in the latrine roof. Wood fire food is the best. That's one of the best things about camping. Haven't been on overnight camping trips since my son was born. I have rented sites for a day though just for the camping feel and to cook on a wood fire. I was a Cub Scout back in Guyana and we used to camp at a creek behind Timehri. Coolie, Black, Puttagee, Chinee and one Buck all in one big tent. The good old days.

Tola posted:

Your D50 that uses SD cards and my first digital D100 with CF cards  were both 6.1 mp. Nikon did not make their cameras in numbering sequence, so  its hard to tell randomly which was built first.

I believe the D100 was built before the D50, because of the cards they use.

I do not know what archival format you are using but if one is to maintain the original photo to its pristine quality one needs a lossless file format that will not die in obsolescence. I currently keep them in  the raw camera format, adobe DNG, I have lots of jpg also from my phone but these are lossy and degrade when manipulated.  I think Adobe will be around for a while. Hard drives are cheap

GTAngler posted:

kp posted:

Townhouses today are glorified logies, maybe that's where they got the idea to build townhouses. I recalled the late sixties when I would visit families in Cane Grove, some were well off while others lived in logies, I was given creek water to drink ,thinking it was swank, that is lime in sugar water, but when drinking I complained that the swank was not sweet. I slept on rice bag on dab mud floor with oil lamp for light,These families were farmers so one would see lots of bananas hanging in the rafters to get ripe, on night I saw a large snake, when I shouted an uncle of mine said don't worry , the snake is there to eat the rats. Yes, the latrines was quite a walk and was over a running trench, looking down one would see fishes waiting for human food.I was young then it was an excursion, a holiday, I would eat fresh fruits off the trees ,drink coconut till my belly bust.go with them to the farm on horse back and learn to paddle canoe. But best of all the food was cooked over a dab fireside and it taste dam good.Those days there was no Black and Coolie Man, everyone lived in UNITY, I remember having sleepover at a black friend house, his MOM would not cook any beef or pork while I was visiting, like wise I would have many Black friends over and we slept in the same bed. What's wrong with those people TODAY.

My father started teaching at 15 at a place named Wash Clothes. It was either Mahaica or Mahaicony Creek. He told me similar stories. He said the fish used to jump in the air to catch to catch the feces before it hit the water where there was more competition. He said one time he looked up and saw a huge labaria in the latrine roof. Wood fire food is the best. That's one of the best things about camping. Haven't been on overnight camping trips since my son was born. I have rented sites for a day though just for the camping feel and to cook on a wood fire. I was a Cub Scout back in Guyana and we used to camp at a creek behind Timehri. Coolie, Black, Puttagee, Chinee and one Buck all in one big tent. The good old days.

Red water creek.

Stormborn posted:

Tola posted:

Your D50 that uses SD cards and my first digital D100 with CF cards  were both 6.1 mp. Nikon did not make their cameras in numbering sequence, so  its hard to tell randomly which was built first.

I believe the D100 was built before the D50, because of the cards they use.

I do not know what archival format you are using but if one is to maintain the original photo to its pristine quality one needs a lossless file format that will not die in obsolescence. I currently keep them in  the raw camera format, adobe DNG, I have lots of jpg also from my phone but these are lossy and degrade when manipulated.  I think Adobe will be around for a while. Hard drives are cheap

I also back up my photos on thumb drives. They are pretty affordable now. I had a scare once and decided to make backups.

Stormborn posted:

Tola posted:

Your D50 that uses SD cards and my first digital D100 with CF cards  were both 6.1 mp. Nikon did not make their cameras in numbering sequence, so  its hard to tell randomly which was built first.

I believe the D100 was built before the D50, because of the cards they use.

I do not know what archival format you are using but if one is to maintain the original photo to its pristine quality one needs a lossless file format that will not die in obsolescence. I currently keep them in  the raw camera format, adobe DNG, I have lots of jpg also from my phone but these are lossy and degrade when manipulated.  I think Adobe will be around for a while. Hard drives are cheap

Thanks Stormy, this is useful information,  because I constantly look for better storage.

skeldon_man posted:

Stormborn posted:

Tola posted:

Your D50 that uses SD cards and my first digital D100 with CF cards  were both 6.1 mp. Nikon did not make their cameras in numbering sequence, so  its hard to tell randomly which was built first.

I believe the D100 was built before the D50, because of the cards they use.

I do not know what archival format you are using but if one is to maintain the original photo to its pristine quality one needs a lossless file format that will not die in obsolescence. I currently keep them in  the raw camera format, adobe DNG, I have lots of jpg also from my phone but these are lossy and degrade when manipulated.  I think Adobe will be around for a while. Hard drives are cheap

I also back up my photos on thumb drives. They are pretty affordable now. I had a scare once and decided to make backups.

A poster losing their phone and pictures recently on holiday is not nice. So backup of any kind, including data, is very important.

Any man-made device is prone to failure, including high tech space shuttles.