These photos are unbeLIEVable

I’ve scanned in and repaired a few pix from my grandmother’s photo album now.  The scanning is going to take for-fucking-EVER because the scanner with Digital ICE enabled takes seven or eight minutes to complete a 600 dpi two-pass scan, but my GOD what I can do with that and the digital photo restoration extensions once I have the scan!

John D. and an iguana

My grandfather with a three-foot long iguana he bagged in Venezuela, about 1922

John D. and an iguana

The original

French peasant couple

A French peasant couple, snapped in their barnyard; early 1919.  Don’t they look just as though they stepped right off the pages of Stone Soup?

French peasant couple

The original

Desdemona Texas in the oil boom

A skyline shot of Desdemona, Texas during the oil boom of 1918-19.  You can count almost a hundred drilling rigs in the photo.

Desdemona Texas in the oil boom

The original

About Marchbanks

I'm an elderly tech analyst, living in Texas but not of it, a cantankerous and venerable curmudgeon. I'm yer SOB grandpa who has NO time for snot-nosed, bad-mannered twerps.
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