{"id":2332,"date":"2012-12-10T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2012-12-10T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:19:58","slug":"20654-a-retrospective-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/20654-a-retrospective-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"20,654: A retrospective, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family got a relatively early start on the digital camera age. There are 900×1200 photos taken from 2000 and 2001, although we mostly used film at the time.<\/p>\n

The first photos I took specifically for a website date to June 2001, and are also film. This was concurrent with learning that Wal-Mart had an option to order CDs with digital versions of the film rolls. The first digital pictures came a few months later. I was able to use one of our film cards to take about 75 pictures during the Independence Bowl trip \u2014 my first digital pictures outside Iowa.<\/p>\n

This July, I took my 20,000th picture for the archive. With this being 11 years since I began Iowa Highway Ends, it’s time to take a look back.\u00a0Below are scaled versions of the original photos taken at numerical milestones.<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto #1000: County Road C47 (old IA 72)<\/a> at I-35, Sept. 13, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nPhoto #2500: Beeds Lake State Park (end of old IA 134)<\/a>, Sept. 5, 2003. This is from the “bad camera” era<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2004, I got a laptop with iPhoto on it. The keyword function alone made importing my by-now-thousands of photos worth it. My homemade version of folder numbering and dating was not quite obsolete, though, as it would make a good repository for originals I didn’t want to destroy, but didn’t want to put “into the system.” So really, the number in the title is the number I’ve kept, and doesn’t include out-of-focus versions or duplicates. (Unfortunately, it seems that I keep taking more and more shots that are just enough<\/em> out of focus to notice, but not enough to trash.)<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto #5000: County Road F20 (old IA 301)<\/a> at I-29, May 7, 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

(To be continued later)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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