Last night I opened my first portfolio. It began about 1978 and the last entry was made in 1988. In it I found two really nice black and white photos I had made with a red filter and really printed nicely. The photos were both of old vacant homesteads that were on farms bordering my family's farm. I remembered the old lady who lived on one and how she would give me milk and cookies after I had been walking all day in the Texas heat in our pastures. Today, in those spots are rows and rows of new houses. Everything that would remind someone of what was there 40 years ago is gone. That's why we make photographs, isn't it? To preserve things like that. So we'll have more than just memories. It's also given me the urge to go out and make black and white photographs of things that are here now but will be gone in ten or twenty years. You guys need to do that to. Thanks.

-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), August 04, 2000

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I guess that's why I use Selenim as well. Got to keep thoes photos alive. Dean

-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), August 04, 2000.

Louis Hine said: "I photography two kinds of things: Those things which should be appreciated and those things which should be changed." It's just as true today as it was a century age.

-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), August 04, 2000.