For The Love Of Slides

Today's image might be a bit niche. It's really an ode to my love of slides as a photographic medium particularly with the use of Kodachrome film.
Kodachrome was the brand name of a colour reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935.
It was one of the first successful colour materials and was widely used for professional colour photography and cinema photography. It was especially used for images intended for publication in print media.
The popularity of alternative photographic materials, the advent of digital photography and its complex processing requirements meant it lost market share which led to manufacturing being discontinued in 2009 and processing ending in December 2010.
I still remember as kids when my dad used to send the film away for processing and then received little boxes of slides back in return. We probably used to have a slide show with a projector and screen twice a year when we were growing up, sitting in the dark in our living room with the curtains drawn so as not to let light on to the screen. We no longer have the projector but I looked at the slides on a viewer a few years ago and the images were still as sharp and colourful as when they were taken (unlike most of the old photographs we have), which was over 40 years ago. They brim with wonderful memories - they feel like little time capsules.

Listened to a great new podcast on BBC Sounds - "The Collection: Peel Acres". After John Peel's death in 2004, his family organised for an expert to catalogue the DJ's sprawling record collection - trawling through more than 120,000 albums, 12 inches and 7 inches (which even have their own shed), at his Suffolk home affectionately dubbed "Peel Acres".
His son, BBC 6 music DJ Tom Ravenscroft, remembers the exhausted expert sitting in the family kitchen and offering his verdict: "You do realise  this is the best record collection in the world?".
Each episode has a different guest arriving at "Peel Acres" to dive into the collection and selecting some tracks to play. The first episode had Damon Albarn peering through the shelves and picking out records by bands such as The Fall, The Idle Race (one of Jeff Lynne's formative bands before he founded ELO), Soft Machine, the gloriously named Blah Blah Blah and singers such as Kevin Ayres and Mahalia Jackson and even a song sung in Elvish, the language originally created by J.R.R Tolkien for Lord Of The Rings. 
Not all of it was to my taste but it was fascinating listening to different kinds of music and hearing the accompanying stories.