I was looking at some old photos this afternoon. Friends, neighbors, family members—all from years 2004 through 2018. Photos I took after 2018 are on my phone and/or Google Photos.
I have photos from long ago. One of my hobbies when I was in high school was photography. I took photos and I developed the film and printed the negatives. They were mostly black and white. I had a darkroom in my basement. I had a daylight film loader and I could load 35 mm film cartridges and, with a green safelight, I loaded film packs for a 4" x 5" Graflex camera I sometimes used.
I printed the photo, but I didn't add the beam of light that appears to be shining on us from above. Nor was that "effect" in the original photo. But it's in the photo I have now. I guess it gradually faded into the photo during the six decades since I printed the photo. It looks like God is shining a spotlight from Heaven on me and my Dad. Maybe it was there all along, and it just took sixty years for me to see it.
It's after 10PM now, which is early for "pre-Nuria" VW, but now that Nuria lives with me, I have to get my butt in bed and turn out the lights. It seems that certain things are expected when you have a partner.
By the way, I found this photo with the help of a piece of software I wrote a few years ago. I call it FileFinder. At first I looked through all the folders on my hard drive that contained image files. I couldn't look at all the images—there are thousands. But I looked in all the folders and couldn't find this photo. Then I had a thought: "Why don't I use FileFinder? After all, this is why I wrote it."
So I fired up my FileFinder and in less than a minute it pulled up this image. Ironically, the photo was in a folder I had already looked in.
2 comments:
Greetings
Wow--- what a lovely picture of you and your Dad -- you were good looking for sure. Your path seems well lite for your future --- how neat --
Using your File Finder software --did your image have a name? How else did you find it?
I adore the idea of pictures being made the old way and would love to learn how to do it -- you are so versatile.
I guess you know he and your Mom would be extremely proud of your accomplishments.
Thanks for sharing.
Best, LL
Good morning!
You are a box full of surprises. Wow! Beautiful photo even when is black and white. Many old photos can be retouched and they look very nice.
My father used to have a Polaroid camera and he used to take black and white photos, the camera printed them. It was a novelty at that time but times change and now, we even don't need a camera to take them, but personally, I prefer printed photos.
Nice touch to remove the beam of light that appears here but I like this one in the way it is. You could show us both photos to see the difference.
What will be the next surprise?
Excellent job!
TA
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