Goals for the website

Most of the photos that are copies were uploaded today, I still have more to upload, but that will be done later this week. Now its time to caption these photos, a major job with over 400 photos to caption. You can still see what the photo is of, because I have the file name showing, but my spelling isn't the greatest for the file name, so captions are desperately needed.

I am shocked at how many are actually copied photos, that I took the time to scan them. Scanning is almost completed. I have DVD's full of photos that are corrected and a lot that need corrected and restored to upload.
The scanning is soon finished, about 1600 left to do and I'm done with that part of it. Since I have been at this for about 4 years, I am sure I will feel lost. But the slides are getting harder to restore as they are showing signs of age, and it will be a relief to complete this task. I feel blessed that I was able to save as many as I did. I know that my grandfather is watching from heaven and smiling, since I wanted no part of his bridge stuff when I was a child. Now I have become so involved in his photographs and in total awe on how beautiful some of his photos were.

I will probably be spending a lot of time researching at www.lostbridges.org which I found is one of the best sites I have found that gives a lot of information on bridges that are no longer standing. Its a huge database of covered bridges. I will be contacting them this week to offer some of the photos from the collection to add to their database.

Today I did moved some photos over to the new Somerset county Gallery, bridges, nature, and mills. I think it will be nicer to have a special place to find all the photos from a county instead of searching all over the website. I still have Fayette County gallery to move photos to. I am not sure what gallery I will set up next for counties.

I am rethinking about the number of photos that I have uploaded its over 10000 photos, and that's not counting the family photos that are in a locked gallery. Maybe its too many, I did read where I can organize it a little better, which I will be starting that in the coming weeks.