Re: New Year's resolutions

Clay,
  First of all, I wish that I would have spent more time looking at your work
and talking to you at APIS this year. Second is, what I did see I liked very
much. Keep up the good work.

On to the topic at hand. negatives and prints are index by size and year/month
dates. ie 4-03XII-05, is a 4x5 neg, 2003, Dec, 5th negative made this month
information goes on the print and negative and the gallery invantory. A set
of master prints are kept in order (or as best as possible). Now starts the
fun, a group of current printing negs are kept at hand. The rest are filed by
area. Southwest, California desert, Salton Sea, Coastal South and North and
so on. I also have a stack of negative that I have not printed sitting in the
darkroom that I keep working on.

2- 2 1/4
3- 35mm
4- 4x5
5- 5x7
8- 8x10
11- 11x14

It works for me, we will see how well when the new darkroom is finished. All
the work has been in storage for a while and the unpacking and resorting will
be fun. I hope that this may help.

Have a wonderous new year

Jan Pietrzak
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> From: wcharmon@wt.net
> Date: 2003/12/28 Sun PM 10:05:59 GMT
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: New Year's resolutions
>
> The list has been way too quiet for the holiday season, so I thought I would
> throw out a wacky idea that has been germinating in my mind during the
> precious few idle moments that holidays generally bring: What if I actually
> organized my negatives, and I don't know, maybe even filed them in some sort
> of logical sequence?
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> So how do incredibly self-actualized, virtuous and organized people actually
> do this? I'm thinking that an ideal system would be organized around the
> common human need for over-simplification and sloth. So what is the
> simplest and easiest system that might actually work? My system of
> organizing by 'piles' may have reached it's logical end now, and some of the
> piles look dangerously close to their maximum angle of repose.
>
> Clay
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Received on Sun Dec 28 17:20:26 2003