I am really excited and I just have to share this!
Yesterday I downloaded the original photos that I have on my hard drive (also as a back-up to be safe), of the original flies from the plates of Mary Orvis Marbury’s 1892 book, Favorite Flies and Their Histories onto a CD. I was surprised that the say, more than 200, because I’m not sure how many I actually have, fit on one 720M disc. I need to revisit the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont, at some point to complete my photography of the last seven Plates. It turns out that Plate Z is missing from the collection of 32 color plates of original flies.
Anyway, my excitement, is that I fired up my laptop, (new to me, never been used yet), loaded the CD, and am now running the slide show as I type. My desktop monitor is one of those old television-looking models, not a newer flat-screen, that given the advances of electronics every eight minutes or so, is a nice Dell, and is a wide-screen with really good resolution. The photos look far better, revealing more detail, higher clarity, better color, sharper focus, than what I have seen previously on my older “Model-A” computer screen. So my excitement, is that I’m eager to have my table visitors view these photos. The hand-written numbers in ink, and the occasional pattern notations regarding materials in pencil, are all Mary Orvis Marbury’s original hand writing. As I say, this running slide show will make a very nice attraction at my display table.
After viewing those beauties for three days at your table in Marlborough, followed by another three days in Somerset, I expect that I’ll be seeing them in my sleep- and counting flies instead of sheep. Sounds like an improvement to me.
Jim
Hi Jim;
Thanks for your comment! Though Somerset is up in the air, just a bit at the moment. Hopefully it works out for me to be there. I think you will be counting flies…feathered ones!
Sounds great Don – I will be sure to check them all out at the Bears Den Show. Hope you are feeling well! Alec
Yeah I’ll have the photos there as well…I’m still dealing with the Crohn’s, but it has finally started to regress. I’m planning to do Marlborough, and Somerset if I can get a table, that’s iffy right at present. Thanks for your comments and support!