We digitize photos and papers in order to keep copies safe against catastrophe, and to share them with close family members. And members of the leather communities, especially the the LGBT++ <3 folks, have a more extended and widespread chosen family, framily, and community.
Our sharing is also a way to keep our collective history known.
If you have been keeping shoeboxes of old print photos, slides or negatives from 10, 20, or 30 years ago, and want to digitize them for keeping, sharing and/or community archiving, I can help you with that. Yep, even the spicy ones. (Your privacy is important to me.)
If you have boxes and bins of paper (letters, flyers, cards, clippings, multi-page event programs, art, etc), or even files from old media & devices. (CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, Cassette tapes, usb drives, old hard drives, old computers, etc), I can help you with that.
Vancouver, Canada and all the surrounding cities are local to me. But if we can work out safe passage of your materials, I can work much “farther afield”. Contact me. Rates are here.
More on my various digitization services here.
Who is Elaine Miller / Techdonkey?
Hi, folks. I’m Elaine. I’m an elder leatherdyke, and have been enthusiastically active in the Vancouver leather community since the very early 90s. I’ve taught, run events, written kink columns, authored fiction, published magazines, run community websites, and lived and loved within our awesome queerly overlapping communities. From 2011 until my retirement (from retail) in November 2024, I ran East Side Re-Rides, Vancouver’s leather store.
And all along, I’ve been collecting memorabilia and taking photos. Preserving our history is important work, and I’m proud to do it. My collection will soon be headed to a large organization for long-term safekeeping. Maybe yours should be too?
