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<\/p>\n On this – the day my father would have celebrated his 100th birthday – I celebrate his lovely bride\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.more specifically, her eye<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Yeah, I\u2019ve already posted pictures of them everywhere, but my parents are not in any of these. She saw these scenes and captured them\u2026\u2026..on print film (ugh!). I should mention she\u2019s won a few photo contests – mostly in the Womens\u2019 Club.<\/span><\/p>\n The gaudy background in the opening image is from a Capri shoebox that contains – among other photographic items – 273 small prints.<\/span><\/p>\n From this lot, I picked out these 86 images:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I really didn\u2019t want have to scan 86 separate items, so I created little groups whose commonalities included subject matter and location. That got the load down to a more-reasonable 32 scans, each having 1-6 photos in them.<\/span><\/p>\n But because Mom used crappy print film with all kinds of horrible color casts and sharpness issues to overcome, 84 edits were required. That took a lot of time, but it was certainly for a good cause.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m presenting them as sequentially as I can (some multi-image scans have different years in them, so I\u2019ll go by the first year listed in those scans) with one exception: the first year shall go last for reasons I\u2019ll explain later.<\/span><\/p>\n Click to enlarge (not all of them).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hawaii, 1972 – Pineapple Rainbow (sounds like an ice cream flavor):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spain, 1973 – Everything looked red with this film. I took a lot of it out, but taking any more out would have made them black-and-white. Interesting note with the first photo\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.you can bet that she sent them a copy.<\/span><\/p>\n Not sure what\u2019s in the second photo’s carts\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026fishing nets?<\/span><\/p>\n Quick! What\u2019s going on in the third photo?<\/span><\/p>\n The answer:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1977, \u201978 \u201979, 81 – No idea where she shot the first one. Small print under \u201cIn The Bag\u201d says \u201cquality handbags\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026icebags, maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n The \u201978 one says, \u201cSmithsonian – eating signs from all nations\u201d. She then identifies the person on the right as her sister Joan, which makes sense since Joan lived in nearby northern Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n No location given on the \u201979 one, but it sure looks like NYC, where they need heavy equipment to pick up old Beetles.<\/span><\/p>\n The \u201981 picture was taken in somewhere in Norway. The Van Halen brothers – by the way – were born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1981, \u201983 – More reddish film\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I wonder if modest Mom was covering her eyes when she took these. The first four were taken in Oslo, Norway, in 1981. The last one – David by Michelangelo (angle by Eunice) – was taken in Florence, Italy, in 1983:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1982 Tennessee, Colorado – The three on the left were taken in Tennessee; the three on the right in Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n Tennessee – Nashville, Knoxville (World\u2019s Fair), Nashville (Sun Records! All right, Mom!)<\/span><\/p>\n Colorado – USAF Academy (just north of Colorado Springs), to Pike\u2019s Peak, taken from Pike\u2019s Peak:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Before and after\u2026\u2026..HAD to get rid of that red sky, but there was no blue\/cyan to bring out, so I made the sky B&W. This took a lot of time because the structure has a lot of red in it and I didn\u2019t want to lose that, so there were individual takeouts of red between each peak – pain in the ass, but worth it:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1983 – Rome (4):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Venice, Rome:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1983,4 – Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, NJ<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1984 – London shop window 9-12-84, Germany (On the Rhine 9-14-84) and in Paris 9-21-84:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unknown location 10-7-84<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1984, \u201985 , \u201995 Waterfalls – \u201984 unknown location, \u201985 Kyoto, Japan, \u201995 New Zealand<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1985 Far East Itinerary:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1985 Hong Kong (3), Macau (1 – St Paul\u2019s Church):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1985 Bangkok (4):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1986 – California wind farms (3 – from a moving car):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1986 – Utah (3), Arizona (1 – Glen Canyon Dam):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1986, \u201990, \u201992 – LOCAL\u00a0\u00a0 Disgusting-looking pumpkin, Mom\u2019s neighbors watering lawns at sunset, from MY roof in Hackensack (Holy Trinity Church dome in the background):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1988, 1992 – Fire hydrants in Natchez, MS and unknown location:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1990 – Four in British Columbia, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1993 – Nephews picking Lady Liberty\u2019s nose 4-22-93:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1993 – Mom needed a break from caring for Dad, so I took her to a place I knew she\u2019d love: the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY. (think huge sculptures on a big golf course) – a great place!:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1993 & 1996 – The Leafe house after a 1996 snow storm, icicles by my old bedroom window in 1993, the back yard in 1996:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1994 – No idea where, but it\u2019s dated 4-20-94:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1995 – 10-1 & 11-30-95 (No idea where and Denver):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Melbourne, Australia, Central Shopping Centre 11-12-95:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Melbourne & Sydney 11-12,9,10-95 (Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Luna Park and somewhere else in Sydney):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overlanders Steakhouse, Alice Springs, Australia, bathroom doors 11-13-95:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hackett’s Bungy (that\u2019s how they spell it) Jump, Queenstown, New Zealand 11-26-95:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11-29, 27-95 New Zealand looks like a fun place:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s just<\/em> about all\u2026\u2026\u2026..but wait, I have a couple of leftover pictures from\u2026\u2026\u2026\u20261969<\/em>? Oh yeah – that first year that\u2019s going last.<\/span><\/p>\n The pictures aren\u2019t very good – a distant shot of the George Washington Bridge and an even more<\/em> distant shot of the Manhattan skyline:<\/span><\/p>\n Then I flipped them over:<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1-IMG_0803-Part-1-The-Prints-10-28-21-min.jpg\")
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