lesged Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 I'll refrain from my usual long comments and leave it a sort of Words/No words. I'll be glad to answer any questions. The boy is my son, Marc, at age 5 1/2. Photo was taken in 1958 not far from Florence in Prato. George B. draws out maximum details from my best scans from Epson Perfection 4180 Photo, and uses duo tone and some magic incantations, far beyond my ken.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbreak Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 re your 4180; I have one too, and the software is just bizarre. The simple Epson Scan button has never worked, before or after a complete system recovery!<BR> gawd that thing has some idiotsyncrancies...<BR><BR>The quality is superduper but... but... I found out much later that it crops even when you tell it not too, and it re-enables Unsharp Mask and so on even though I keep turning it off.<BR><BR>Is your experience the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskovacs Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Beautiful moment, skillfully captured! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbreak Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 err.<BR> yes. that's a given.<BR>*sorry* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
battra92 Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Great photo. :) It kind of makes me want to be a little boy chasing the girls around the playground. I'd always chase the girls around but I never caught them. Good times. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_stobbs3 Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Great picture. A chip off the old block? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_bedell Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHildreth Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 I always had a frog in my pocket at that age. H'mmm, maybe that explains my intermittant popularity with the girls. These two seem to be very cooperative models for their age, or did they scamper off down the street on some other adventure the instant you tripped the shutter? Interesting shot, Lester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Lovely, Les! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrydressler Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Gawd we did look funny in 1958. burning family snapshots now. LOL Great picture that one should be on a Rock Album. oops CD cover. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahams Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Fabulous moment. A treasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micah_henry Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Les, Wow! Very, very nice. Good eye, great composition. I think it's akin to a Cartier-Bresson moment, as childhood is so fleeting. Especially in this day and age. --Micah in NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesged Posted August 3, 2005 Author Share Posted August 3, 2005 Thanks all for your comments and compliments. Kevin, write me offline I have suggestion to eliminate some of your problems with our common Epson 4180 Photo scanner Thanks Mike! Short, succinct and sweet. Chris, unless they get H.G Well's time machine built, we can only return to our childhood in our imagination. Just a tip, don't try the frog in the pocket in the playgrounds today. You'll be hauled away, if not tarred and feathered. I?ve lived 43 years directly across the street from the elementary school our younger son, Dan, attended. I have taken several hundred pictures of kids playing there through those years. It is now forbidden during school hours. On weekends and summer days, parents cower and yell to their children to come to them immediately, if you ever point a camera in the direction of their child(ren.). They don't brand you with the Scarlet Letter "A" as they did in Hawthorne's Salem, but in their mind's eye with worse letters such as "M" or "P" here in Framingham. Tom, they were not posed at all. The girl is the daughter of an Italian friend, who I met in Boston. She was a precocious vamp. Neither Lino nor his wife did any to stop the smooching, nor did I or Claudia ; we just kept laughing. They were oblivious of parents? attitude, for it was love at first sight, junior style. Or was it? Look at the hand gestures! that?s not puppy love IMHO. As Marc is 52, Lina could be a grandmother. No, they never met again; it was a wonderful one day tryst. There are other shots in similar embraces, but this was the best of he bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandeha Lynch Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Lester, you could have entitled it "kids who have good role models". Btw, I like the shoes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_bedell Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Two days after this was posted I continue to find it more hilarious each time I see it. The title literally makes me laugh out loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john falkenstine Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Lester, I recently bought a 4180 as my scanner, it is a piece of machinery that folks only dreamed about a couple of years ago. Some of the scanned files are HUGE. I have no issues with the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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