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Cousin Bobbi doesn't get enough love. Still forced to sit at the kid table at the holidays -- but it could be worse, so is her older brother Buck -- people always ask when they remember she exists, "what is she doing nowadays?" and receive the answer: "her very best."

A clear family resemblance on the four ladies, 1966.

You know how they say you shouldn't upstage the bride in a wedding? You probably shouldn't upstage the graduate in their graduation, also. Doesn't help that the camera-holder centered Her, not Them.

Girl with Rolleiflex in front of Weyerhaeuser's headquarters, late 1970s. There's no date on the frame, but the building was completed in 1971 and most of the slides that were with it were from a Weyerhaeuser manager's slideshow dated circa 1978.

"Can we be done now?" the two youngest voices said in unison, with the two older kids audibly nodding in agreement that this would be nice.

Other day one of my high school classmates shared a photo from another of our classmates of some classmates from Back In The Day which has been naturally vintaged by time, light, and chemistry. [disclaimer: added bars to the eyes because I did not ask anyone for permission to share this]

Randy, Toby, Vernon, Luis, Donald, Carlos, Anthony

I thought I'd try to contribute to the conversation by fixing the photo, but this turned out not to be as easy as it seems because of the quantity of red this faded into... reduce it as much as would be realistic, and everything turns green and purple. This is what happens when it's not just one color that shifted -- and other than masking the 'fixed' parts for one color to do a second 'fix' for another color in Photoshop, you're pretty much left with:

The fleshtone being somewhat close to natural is what I was after, forget the background. It still has a smidge too much red but that's how it goes, and I can't be arsed to correct the white doorframe and other neon green cast on its own.

If you wondered about using AI or the photo tools for black & white: I did have a look at my toolbag and didn't like the results -- like one app stripped ALL the colors that already existed and recolored the faces in pink tint but not the hands, and another app which usually does a great job of restoring colors on shifted slides wasn't geared to this type of decay so made it worse.

It was an ordinary day in the park in summer of 1963 when..

The OOZE

...happened, and there was a lot of screaming.

The OOZE

Coming soon to a theatre near you.

Somehow I have three slides where the image and paper are encased in glass. This makes them heavier, better protected from scratches and dust but suddenly succeptable to cracks, easier to clean fingerprints off of but more attractive to fingerprints, and too thick to be run through my Nikon scanner so I had to scan them on the flatbed.

Last night's scan was a box of 21 slides from a parade in California in 1959. No matter what's going on on the street, my eye always gets drawn to the cop/security officer that was stationed on the top of that building [not visible above] who appears in a third of the slides.

Was scanning a roll of black & white negatives yesterday and thought, "I wonder if the Colorize function of VueScan can make this better?" You be the judge, I think it did a fine job... mostly because there are no people in the pictures so you don't see distracting purple flesh.

Unknown where this Christmas display on a farm was or when, but here we have a church on a snowy hill, angels we have heard on high, and the wise men coming to bring gifts unsuitable to an infant (behind an electric fence). The colorized versions look better than the originals because you can't really see anything, it resembles shadows and lines.

And here is who to blame for taking the pictures...