Slide
Today was the end of a difficult problem I have had all month. It has not only numbed my mind of all feeling, but I can’t even feel my fingertips. So, today I finally collected, edited, labeled and loaded my slides for all my art applications.
It has been a trying process because I have had to work with two companies outside of a 30-mile radius and with faith to get all of this done. Can you believe that no one really has a working film projection in my town? Or is there a good film/photography store? It’s hard enough to live in a place without an Olive Garden, but the one shop that was here closed down last January.
What makes this process even harder is that I work mostly in digital, so slides are hard to get. I have had my initial batch processed through Canterbury Media in California. This company did a fantastic job with the batch of 30 slides I had from my files.
Getting duplicates was a different story. I had to travel about 40 miles to the nearest photography shop that did duplicates. I got the commercial grade (in between low-grade and museum-quality), and I expected that I would get a copy of what I ordered. The first try yielded only eight good duplicates out of 50. Most of the duplicates were either cropped in half or placed unevenly inside the mount. That meant waiting another week and traveling 80 miles round-trip to see if they get it right. The second try was much better. Only four were wrong, but I had the duplicates from the previous week that helped with that.
Now, the three schools that don’t require the GRE can be sent off. However, I still have Dec. 21 before I can send the other.
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