My Grandfather

Stan · April 5, 2005

Way back when photographs were precious, someone took a picture of my grandfather, infront of what is now my house. He was born in 1901, he's wearing the hat. Anyway i found a few glass negs and some slides. Here is a neg 4 1/4 X 31/4 inch glass plate. I transferred them onto Cd at between 18 and 40 mb each now all I need is to clean them up. As I go through them I will add them to Smugmug, but here is the first the original is 3. something meg if you want to play with healing and clone brushes :rofl

Here is the photo scan

and a photo of the neg if you care with a safety pin cos I don't understand your money and you won't understand mine :dunno

ginger_55 · April 5, 2005

That is soooo cool! And the house is still in the family, that is even cooler.

g

Stan · April 5, 2005

ginger_55 wrote:

That is soooo cool! And the house is still in the family, that is even cooler.

g

Thanks Ginger

I know this story, my Grandfather and his brothers bought a canoe in Cambridge and paddled it home. There is no way you could do that now, the water is not there for a boat like this

John Mueller · April 5, 2005

This is cool.I like old shots like this.Thanks for sharing.
Lets see more

ian408 · April 5, 2005

Thanks for sharing!

The scans are pretty nice for that first pass too.

Ian

Stan · April 5, 2005

MHJS wrote:

This is cool.I like old shots like this.Thanks for sharing.
Lets see more

Ok here's one. Probably Lake Victoria. The healing brush is a sinch on the water but the rocks are impossible

Feel free to play with the larger files

Peter Dumont · April 7, 2005

Amazing

Stan wrote:

Way back when photographs were precious, someone took a picture of my grandfather, infront of what is now my house. He was born in 1901, he's wearing the hat. Anyway i found a few glass negs and some slides. Here is a neg 4 1/4 X 31/4 inch glass plate. I transferred them onto Cd at between 18 and 40 mb each now all I need is to clean them up. As I go through them I will add them to Smugmug, but here is the first the original is 3. something meg if you want to play with healing and clone brushes

Here is the photo scan

and a photo of the neg if you care with a safety pin cos I don't understand your money and you won't understand mine

Stan,

I checked out these images size "original" on your website and I must say I am amazed by the detail .
The world was a cleaner place in those days for sure .:cry
Thanks for posting them.

Bye,
Peter Dumont

gubbs · April 8, 2005

Excellent stuff Stan & very interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing more!!

My Grandfather

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