Sick Prints

Kind of a slow day for blips --got to spend some needed time at home working, catching up. A walk and a make up Tai Chi Class got me out for a bit.
So I was thinking about Tatum (8 yo granddaughter) and her new camera. And her new ipod touch, (she did tell us that her parents were" restricting her internet access"! -). and how different life is today for a kid. Which led me to to look in some old albums to see if I could find any photos taken with my black box brownie I got when I was 9 I think. remember those little square flashcubes...? Not sure if I found the early prints from about 1948 (my mother might have taken them!) but I did get a chuckle at this page from 1953 (I turned 13 then, and had my own darkroom in the basement bathroom) attesting to my recording sense, a display of what not to do in the darkroom! If you can't read it - the problems are : dust on the negative, crooked. Too light. Too dark. Wet spot on Negative. Blury-loose contact between neg and paper. Bad background. (I especially liked that one) and Fixer in Developer makes brown spots. That black paper I'm sure is not acid free, but the prints look ok for being so ancient.
Tatum will be learning levels, cropping and straightening, and sharpening effects on the computer.......maybe my mac, now that it works again :-) And sending photos straight from her ipod touch to blipfoto, thank you Steve Jobs. RIP. A day that will be remembered.