Category — Photography: Restoration

I don’t know why I’m on such a project kick lately. I think because the weather is improving. All winter I basically sat on the couch and stared at the wall. But now it’s Spring!! The sky is blue and it’s (almost what could be considered) warm outside! The squirrels and the dogs and the birds are at play! There’s some jackhammer that keeps waking me up at ridiculously awful times in the morning! All these factors have me all excited and eager to complete all these projects I started, like, two years ago.

First there is the Teta family photo album. This album was assembled by my grandfather, who seemed to think stapling photos into a spiral notebook was the way to go. My idea was to remove all the photos from that crumbling acidic paper, but not before preserving the book as it was originally assembled by scanning the pages. I also wanted to make some sort of animated book with turning pages for a website, but alas, that seems to require… programming. Ugh. So that’s a no go. But I’m still planning on making some sort of online album. Possibly I could use image maps to make it so that if you moved the mouse over certain sections of the pages, it would bring up a close up of some of the individual photos which I will have restored. This might be completed let’s say… ten years from now. I’m just writing this down now as a record of my ideas.

All that has been completed so far is resizing six of thirty-three pages and adding black backgrounds. Yes! ::pumps fist::

Here is the cover and a couple of pages. Click to make them bigger.

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