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Rare Photos: April 2011

Well, my ability to get access to said photos will eventually hit a wall. To one extent, it already has. I've simply got a great deal stock-piled. But at the current rate I'm able to acquire new material? I would say within the next 4 years, I won't be able to do these specials monthly -- or even on any regular basis. Not unless such materials continue to somehow trickle out of the archives in drips and drabs.

I've really tapped out a multitude of sources, and actually spend my own money doing so, and in that time frame, I'll hit a point where I'll be paying $7-10 for one photo, and it's just too much to be warranted at that juncture.

I do know of fans who have a great deal of photos available, but many are unwilling to share. They have their various reasons, but none of them are very good in my opinion.
 
Oh, things like "it'll make them less valuable" or people who would only share with massive water-marks on medium-sized images, or I've had one guy who didn't like the fact that I didn't provide a history of every image, where I found it, et cetera.

I'm more than willing to source people, even in extreme cases on the image itself; I had two film PB shots from someone's autograph collection, and they insisted on such, so the bottom of those two pictures have a small white block beneath them with their sites URL.

Somehow though, the idea of scanned digital copies of such things being freely available out upon the web makes people think their physical originals will somehow be lesser. They seem to forget, they have the physical originals and such are always valuable. Not to mention if their concern is reproductions, they simply only provide copies that are in the 800 pixel range, making physical photo prints next to impossible.

I know of a German fellow who bought the entire publicity catalog from Nemesis. All of it. Every take, every photo, originals, et cetera. Likely in the 100s of images. Now he did pay a hefty sum of his own money for such, so I can easily see not wanting to just give it all away. But making 800-or-so pixel size digital copies of just a fraction of such available? What could be bad about that?

If I'd kept count of the money I've spent on this stuff, you guys would think me nuts. Best guestimate? I've spent at least a 4 or 5 hundred of my own dollars over the past 4 or 5 years in pursuit of this stuff. Might even be double that. Sometimes I pay $5-10 for a single photo. Other times I get 20 photos for $2. So it evens out. But it's still money I don't really have for the cause of Trek historical preservation and keeping this stuff alive.

So it's tough for me to fathom people who have such in their posession already, and won't let a copy of such be made for the fellow fans to enjoy.
 
^ Thanks for that. I collected stills for years. They were largely expensive. But I enjoyed collecting. When the net came around I moved my collecting to that. I still have some stills but I don't buy them any more.
 
Oh I've got quite a collection. I've a few hundred 8x10s over the years of doing this. In the earlier days, I was able to re-sell the ones I didn't want to keep, though at a bit of a loss, but it still softened the financial impact. The person I sold them too in bulk -- $3 a photo times 50-100 photos -- has dropped off the face of the earth, and I imagine has been having a tough time selling in this economy too.

I've got a good 100-150 I'd like to unload, but, one at a time sales on e-bay just are not worth the time and energy. The person I used to sell too, they had a store so it made more sense for them. Ah well. Someday. :)

I've bought about every medium to acquire for Rare Photos. 8x10s, magazines, books, 35mm slides, digital stuff. What can I say? I'm obsessed. And someone's got to preserve and proliferate these photographic gems, cause TPTB sure as hell aren't going to do it! LOL
 
2nd Row, Center: The Enterprise-D Bridge, trashed and ruined, at the end of Generations. :(

3rd Row, Right: Rejected publicity photo from season 1 of Kes and Neelix. Why they ever paired her up with him...
 
bgrummer said:
3rd Row, Right: Rejected publicity photo from season 1 of Kes and Neelix. Why they ever paired her up with him...
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thats easy.
Its the beauty and the beast. Kes and Neelix match each other on some many levels that they complete each other. Therefore they don't pay attention to each others look. I think its Star Trek's way of showing how more evolved its society is compared to today, where people heavily judge people by how it looks.
Like Neelix I am a three, I have even been called 1 jokingly I hope, but I am closer to 1 than I am 5. The only way I could get a seven like Kes would be to have that person not look at my face but my personality. I am curious to know the result of a thread asking people of trekbbs if they look at the person or their looks.
 
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