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<p>The last motion picture that inspired my still photography was a travelog called "Jeep Trails in Utah" by Stan Midgley. It was shot (as most travelogs were) on 16mm Kodachrome. I must have seen it a few years after its 1957 premier. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1978&dat=19571030&id=11slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a6wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5274,2697485</p>

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<p>That is actually a composite. An exposure of about 30 seconds captured 4 or 5 meteors and the International Space Station (the faint white streak that is not parallel to the others). Some of the other frames had two meteors. All of the meteors are in the correct position of the sky. </p>

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<p>My grandmother often told me about watching Halley's comet in 1910. The earth passed through the tail and produced an intense meteor storm. My great great great grandfather wrote about Halley's comet in 1835, but he didn't know what it was. He thought this silver belt in the sky might be a sign of the end of the world. Edmund Halley predicted the return of the comet in 1759, but the word hadn't spread to rural Indiana in 1835. I agree with Alan that the 1986 pass was underwhelming.</p><div></div>

<p>I woke up at 2 am to find mostly cloudy skies, but watched for an hour anyway. I did see one meteor that appeared to be on the right track for this shower. </p> <p>I doubt anything in my lifetime will will top the Leonids in 2001.</p><div></div>

<p>I started editing scanned film images 10 years before I "went over to the dark side" and shot digital. It is rare for me to find an image that can't be improved by tweaking the tone scale. The biggest advance in image quality ever delivered to amateur photographers was when photofinishers started scanning the film and applying digital algorithms to adjust tone scale, enhance sharpness, suppress grain, and fix red-eye. I edit most of my images one at a time in Photoshop (whether they are digital or scanned film images). I use Lightroom when I have many images that all require similar edits. I see no reason to maintain the biases that various image sensors (film or digital) produce. </p>

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<h1 ><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/technology/personaltech/a-cloud-free-way-to-organize-your-far-flung-photos.html?emc=edit_ct_20140515&nl=technology&nlid=2094753&_r=0">Organizing Your Photos, Cloud-Free</a></h1> <p>This is far from the final answer, but it is an interesting approach for the hobbyist. <br> Protecting the image collection from loss is one concern, and this software helps in that regard. Facilitating retrieval is another matter. A good catalog will contain information about the date and time, the place, and people's names. All systems do a good job with date and time. Some do a reasonable job with location information if provided by the camera. I've yet to see a great job with people identification. iPhoto has the right idea with facial recognition, but it needs to be better. </p>

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