Next Stop–Vancouver

 Alaska Cruise Trip Day 1 – Vancouver

It was beautiful and sunny as we circled for a landing in Vancouver.  As I love bridges, I was enamored with this one crossing the Fraser River.  It's called the North Arm Bridge, and it runs trains up top and bikes and pedestrians underneath.  Vancouver and the surrounding area also have many skyscrapers and highrises.  

The Young Guy

 Remembering Dad on his birthday.  He's the happy boy in front with the white shirt.

Cuddly Snooze

We adopted a 3-year-old in May and he is just so cute.  I haven't been able to blog much lately, but you will probably see many pics of the newest member of our family.

Good Night

 Comfy, cozy, and ready for bed.  He loves his new hoodie.

Bananas for Bananas

Another one from the circus.  The circus is so glitzy and glamorous, that I decided to go rogue on this one and stick with black and white; except for the delicious, juicy bunch of bananas that this 7500 lb lady could hardly wait to scarf down.  As far as she was concerned, there was no noisy audience, no bright lights and no human on her back – just bananas.  

Clearly

 Today is a complete Techie Corner day.  

I bought a couple new image editing programs.  I typically use Lightroom, Photoshop, and On1 Effects, but recently I got sucked into a Facebook ad for some new software by Topaz Labs.  I was skeptical at first, but they offered a free trial so I couldn't refuse.  

I was fiddling around today with their program called Gigapixel AI.  It's software to upsize photos, but it also does a fantastic job of revealing facial detail.  Today's image is part of one I blogged on a couple of weeks ago.  The one on the left is the best I could do with what I had.  The right is a couple of clicks in Gigapixel AI.  I could probably have smoothed out some of the facial features in image one if I had felt like it.  But the hair!  How did they manage to get it to look like hair again with individual strands?

I really like what it can do, now all they have to do is figure out how to translate that fine facial detail into fine detail for the rest of the image.

Ampy

 Love you, mom.  She was a goofball from a young age.

Tactilely

Got wood?

Freehandedly

Fond memories from an anniversary trip we took a few years ago.  

Slapdashery

Mom at her bridal shower.  Looks like she had a rip-roarin' good time.

Teachably

Mom, teaching Sunday School.

Acutely

 

Analogously

Dad and Grandpa at roughly the same age.

Scowlingly

The look.  My mom and her parents had it.

Propitiously

One of mom's high school graduation pictures.  

Techie Corner

I actually found the negative for this image and scanned it.  It had horrible crazing.  It was way thicker than a normal negative, like it was dipped in something to preserve it.  But somehow the coating got botched.  It had to have happened with the photographer, because even the print photos I have of this image have the disfigurations that the negative has.

I've spent hours and hours over the past year to get the image looking nice like this.  A true labor of love.

Decorously

31 Days of Christmas continues.  More from Summit Ave.  This house doesn't have many Christmas decorations, but it looks so imposing.  I could also picture it on an antique postcard or in an old photo album, so that's how I'm presenting it.

Pixelly

My very first digital camera.  Digital cameras were just barely starting to get better.  They still couldn't hold a candle to film.    As seen in 2004.

Anatomy

I was perusing my photo library this evening and came upon Rex.  How could I forget about Rex?  He was a crowd-pleaser (mostly women) at a special photoshoot for a photography group I used to be part of.  As seen in 2010.  

More pictures from this shoot can be found by searching the fashion photography label to the right.

Smirky

Mom and dad look like they are up to something.  Especially dad.  As seen in 1960.

Lovably

Another pic from my bestie.   Her husband as a baby and his mom.  She looks so happy.