If placed side by side would they really stretch around the world? Or, if placed one on top of another, tower above Mt. Everest? Probably not, but as we stood in our new Copenhagen apartment and looked at the mountain of boxes that represented our accumulated lives' work in transparencies, it was overwhelming to think that each and every slide needed to be scanned. The very thought was enough to transform us from hip, happening, digital shooters into tired, old photographers with a past.

Every serious photographer over the age of twelve faces the same daunting task: how to transfer a lifetime of chrome and negatives into new digital images. For some it represents no more than the desire to be able to improve favorite old images in Photoshop or to be able to post them to a new home-page; for professionals it is the first step in making available to new markets an archive of past "winners". In short, for us, these slides represent our most valuable "stock" portfolio. They are our 401K in Kodachrome.