The Young Guy

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

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.

Impetuosity

That's a 1000-watt smile right there.

Ampy

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

Celerity

I am beating the top of the Quik can so fast that the spoon can hardly be seen.  I'm not sure if I was just enjoying making a bunch of noise or if I was trying to beat that can into submission so that I could get to the chocolatey powder.  Maybe both.

Techie Corner

I have blogged this image before, but previously it was a scan of a photo.  I found the negative and scanned that.  I like the quality of this image much better than the photo scan.  

Blithesomely

 One of my favorite pics of me.  As seen Thanksgiving week, 1991. 

Slapdashery

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

Teachably

Mom, teaching Sunday School.

Touchingly

When this was just a tiny photo in an album, I didn't think much of it.  But when I scanned the negative and blew it up, I found that I really liked it.  The lighting on my face is soft.  Cute pose.  Wearing my mom's coat from when she was that age.  Perfect!  Good job, mom!

Slumberously

When you're all ready to party for your birthday, but suddenly feel a nap coming on.

Festivities

Mom opening baby gifts.

Bodaciously

Bathing beauty.

Nineteen-thirties

Three generations – my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother.

Analogously

Dad and Grandpa at roughly the same age.

Scowlingly

The look.  My mom and her parents had it.

Wriggly

Grandma and I.  Look at that belly hanging out as I try to wriggle off of her lap.  Yes, she really did have blue hair.

Ceremoniously

Cake always puts a smile on my face, even back when it was my second birthday.

Unlikely

Little known fact!  When I was a baby, I had super long hair for a brief period of time.  Like, for one minute.

Elatedly

Oh, look, mommy!  I have a thing!  It's the best thing ever!

Creativity

 Fun times!  That's a snazzy-looking snowman.