Royden and Vinita 1934(please look larger)

Royden and Vinita were my grandparents and I was lucky enough to know them very well. I am working on trying to restore many pictures and get them onto the computer into several different photo presentations for my family to have for years to come. Many of the photo's have been damaged and have a yellow tint to them.

PLEASE let me know what you think about this.

I have put this in weddings because this is of my grandparents wedding and courtship up to their wedding. The top picture is one of the only picture I have of their wedding day.


Thank you for your comments! ~ micki

Wonderful!

Oh Micki!

 

This is so very well done! Absolutely incredible! You must be very proud of it, I'm sure they would be.

I actually thought of you and what you did for the wedding pictures. I thought I should do this (like we do in the scrap books) with the pictures for my kids and print them like pictures.

 

I have found my NEW hobby. Getting my THOUSANDS of old pictures done up like this and catagorized. It only took me about three hours of work on the whole thing. NOT including of course the one picture that was in real bad shape.

 

Thank you for appreciating it. ~ micki

How fortunate you are to have all these wonderful photos. Making memories for your children is a true blessing for them. I'm looking forward to seeing many more.

The collage is wonderful and I think your Father would love to have something like this, even your Uncle. It is really well done!

:)

Perfect, best regards.

Too Good,

I could see this becoming a full time job, I bet there are a lot of people that would pay to have someone do this type of thing with their photos.

Only thing is, who is going to pay me $20 an hour to do this. Ok, it took me almost 10 hours of time to get this just right and done. NOT including going through all the pictures to find just the right ones.

 

This included fixing the photo's. One of them took a LONG time (the SWAN) picture. It is very hard to just sit down (as you know) and just fix something.

 

So, $200 is a bit much to ask and even $100 is hard. BUT when you print out 10 copies of this picture. WOW!

 

This looks so GREAT printed out!

Micki, I love old photos. I see them as a link to our past. The collage that you put together is a great tribute to the subjects. Other people prefer to light a candle in church.....

My highest respects for your hard work! You have done such an remarkable job with this one! It is certainly true, that the 200USD would be a lot, but on the other hand, this is an unique way of working old and PRICELESS memories into new form. I can only wonder how this kind of exclusive images would brighten the day of many old people on their retirement homes.

 

Micki, I cannot emphasize enough, how much I appreciate your efforts when you`ve decided to work these old family treasures of yours, like you`ve done! You do this to preserve them to your children and theirs and... WOW! :-) At this point I just wish that I would have saved this kind of old treasures when I was a lot younger... :-( I was 17 when my parents passed away and even at that age I had lost many of their images, not to say after that happening. I moved from a large and old house to a one room apartment and at that time I lost lots of old treasures... SIGH! (kicking own ankle for being so stupid...)

 

Well, to say it short: Remarkable collage!

 

With sleepy thoughts,

Alpo

There was another photographer who posted snapshots of parties and her best friend, and I remember someone writing her in a very rude way to stop wasting everyone's time by posting snapshots, that this site is for photographers serious about promoting their art. I remember replying that a person's site is personal, and the person may do with it as the person feels.

This picture that you have put together, therefore, has relevance if for nothing else, as a record of your family history, an endeavor, of course, you do not need me to validate.

 

I think it is all too easy to see our grandparents as always old. It is when we encounter their pictures as young people that we do a double take and think, half to ourselves, "why, they are not just like us. They ARE us."

 

Yet, this picture, the more one looks at it, the more he see that it has a depth of meaning that surpasses rote collections of ancestors of yore. There is something about this couple, something in their faces and eyes, that places them into the realm of social history, that is, they can represent their age.

 

There is that innocence in their eyes, that fresh feeling that the earth is solid under their feet. No hint of irony or cynicism. It is the face of the pioneer, of Rosie the Riveter, and the small town boy who joins the Civil Service because he believes he can make the world a better place.

 

It was a time of innocence that despite the bitter experiences that tried to shake its core--war, depression, great social upheaval--managed to survive intact, perhaps because people were genuinely naive enough in those days to believe that the world was as simple as they imagined it. But, then again, perhaps they were right, and the world really was that simple then, and remains so to this day, though our jaundiced eye prevents us from seeing through the haze of our own cynicism.

 

You are so right,

 

Even if they were not MY grandparents when one is able to take a picture and put it onto a computer and see into the eyes close up like I have and pixel by pixel fix those pixtures I have seen in to the soul of my grandparents.

 

I have become the photographer myself. I have gone back 90 years. I have relived their moment. THIS is the place to showcase these pictures because this place is not just about photography but how to present something to people (like when doing weddings). THIS is what I do and am good at and I wanted to show those that do weddings how to present something special for a lifetime. Even if I didn't take these pictures i ahve captured them. I have many more to share and will enjoy sharing them for everyone to see. My talents go way beyond "taking" the pictures but I plan on working my skill at taking pictures of things now and intertwining them.

 

I do find it ironic that I am now twice as old as they were then.

Thank you for your kind comments they mean alot to me! ~ micki

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I'm sure that comes as a shock to you. LOL!