Month December 2017

Photo Restoration

I’ve spent the last few days reviewing Photo Restoration and Scanning courses on Lynda.com.  I had already partially restored the  Wedding Picture I posted the other day, but I wasn’t satisified with the result.  One of the bigger challenges was to…

Wedding Picture

I have several copies of my grandparent’s wedding, but I found an original print.  Quite a difference in quality over the other versions I have. As well, the tone is much more pleasant.   The front row are my great…

Scanning

, Building, Content, Dark, Europe, Germany, Kressge, Low-rise, MFA-Database-Spaces, MFA-DocMedia, No Adjustments, Non-residential, Photography, Place, Places, Projects, Restaurant, School, Sonneberg, Thing, Unsaturated, iPhoto, iPhoto Original

As note earlier in my post Remnants, I’ve returned to scanning photographs from the family photo albums.  I came across one of my grandfather’s office when he worked in Sonneberg Germany (about 1927).   Looking more closely at his desktop,…

Potato Dumplings

As I noted earlier (Christmas Break), I’m using food and diet as a culture marker within my documentary work.  Potato dumplings were a big thing in my family.  Dumplings are interesting because they are a part of many diets, including…