Constable: With 6,000 photos on slide film, old-school Des Plaines photographer masters time

“That doesn’t seem like it’s fair,” says Jim Stube, an 85-year-old retired airline pilot and amateur photographer. Stube has every one of the 6,000 images he has photographed on slide film during his life. Piles of transparencies framed in their distinctive white cardboard are spread across several tables in his Des Plaines home. His adult kids and grandkids are in the midst of a massive project to organize seven decades of memories from 1954 to 2019, using masking tape to form a massive grid organized by months and years. They all have their favorites.