Hi Everyone, As this year comes to a close, I’d like to thank all of you and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Somewhere in the commercialization of the holidays, the true spirit of giving gets lost. Operation Photo Rescue is giving the best gift of all—memories [...]
Meet Glenna, one of our longest serving volunteers. I’m a graphic designer. Most of my years in the trade have been in publication design and production, and when the field converted to computer graphics I primarily worked in Illustrator and Pagemaker, with occasional very uncomfortable forays into Photoshop (no layers, for cryin’ out loud!.). The [...]
The OPR Team would like to give a major shout out to Bikken over at DzinerStudio.com. Bikken was very excited about OPR and its mission and graciously donated one of his excellent paid themes for use in our forum. Bikken has been on the bleeding edge of designing themes for the Simple Machines open-source forum [...]
Following on with our ‘Meet the Volunteers’, this is Max. Max lives in beautiful Queensland, Australia and this is his story. My journey with OPR began with a simple Google search in July 2007. I had recently acquired Photoshop CS2 and I was looking for information on photo restoration and OPR looked like a pretty [...]
Continuing our expansion into the realm of social networking sites, we are now listed as an official cause on Facebook. OPR can now be added to any Facebook profile and can collect donations made by any individual or group wishing to support us. So, if you’re on Facebook, join the OPR Cause! Invite your friends, and [...]
While in Phoenix a few weeks ago, I drove down to Mesa to DigMyPics, to meet Scott Crossen, his wife Annette, and many of their staff. As you all probably know, DigMyPics has graciously donated their services to OPR, and they have been doing our printing and delivery for the past few months. They are just getting [...]
OPR volunteer profiles. We thought it might be nice to meet some of the volunteers and their story on how they came to be at Operation Photo Recue. Meet George Hoover, who kindly allowed himself to be first. This photo was taken with George in front of his Computer Class display board for OPR.. My [...]
One photograph of one photograph. I made the picture after spending some time with a family returning to their New Orleans home three months after Hurricane Katrina. Dave saw it and told me he had an idea. He asked me what I thought about trying to help people save their photos. Not just preserving them, [...]
So it took me a little while to figure this out, because some times I get a bad case of the brain farts. I finally figured out how to create a groups in my address book that classified volunteers according to location. This little nugget of information made counting up the volunteers a whole lot [...]
The volunteers of OPR span the globe. We have volunteers representing 44 different countries, territories or republics. In addition, OPR volunteers span across six of the seven continents (we’ll get you yet Antarctica). Canada can boast the most volunteers with 61 followed by the UK with 43 and Australia with 36. Here’s the rest of [...]
