Bored? Nous?

"You must be bored to death by these" said the young lady as we were loading her photos into the back of my car. Around 10,000 prints, all in wallets, each one carefully named with a Post-it note.

Wedding, art college, h-moon, b'day - and so on. Yes, we get loads of those. Then the holidays, this couple have been everywhere; not just the obvious European or North African tour resorts but all over the world. South America, Australia, Hong Kong (might have been a work assignment, lot of social gatherings), Thailand, Antarctica, New Zealand. This week we've been round the world a couple of times. Bored, no.

Then we had a batch of brilliant photos sent in by a major motor cycle racer. Fantastic shots of colourful bikes in a range of impossible positions. They zipped through our s1220 in no time and I though I'd have a bit of fun with the auto rotate function. You may know our photo scanning service returns print scans correctly oriented, could the computer sort these out?

No, sorry Kodak you failed on that one, but it's hardly surprising. A racing 500cc bike goes round corners on its side. It's only one of the laws of physics that stops the rider falling off. In some of the photos the rider is just inches from the tarmac. Then we add in a number of shots of airborne bikes popping over the brow of a hill and you have a massive mix. Hardly any of a normal bike and rider pose.

I wasn't surprised to find the s1220 thinks there's no difference between a bike on its side and one flying through the air. And sometimes a bike in the air above bleached concrete gets turned up side down. Boring, certainly not.

I've been musing about what it takes to close business. In the case of the large order I was loading into my car it was offering to collect them from the client. sadly too few people trust the mail these days and bundling up thousands of prints for mailing is a real chore. In another case it was mentioning our parallel CD ripping service, so we got 179 photos plus three CDs so our client could make a slideshow with favourite music as a soundtrack.

So all together its been a far from boring week. Thanks Kodak, thanks s1220, and thanks to our clients. Much love.