In the process of getting my grandpa’s memorial blog going, my aunt Daisy and mom and other relatives have unearthed quite a few photos and memorabilia that haven’t seen the light of day in years. Here are four photos, the first three of me and my siblings and the fourth of my mom and Daisy.
Daisy took me, my older sister and my just-younger brother to the San Diego Zoo, I’m going to guess in 1985, 1986? According to these photos, we had a great time. Here are the three of us kids on an elephant’s back, looking remarkably un-scared. (The kid in front is an interloper.)
Me, Gabrielle and Spencer at the San Diego Zoo, circa 1985/86.
The five older kids in Daisy’s pickup, probably when she came up to visit us around Christmas (~1989?)
My mom and her little sister, Daisy (I’m guessing around 1966?)
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Who’s the boy on the right? Oh, that’s me…LOL! How handsome am I???
I wish any of the old family photos I had looked anything like those crisp clear images you put out there for the world to see! Did you just scan them in or was there some Photoshop involved?
Daisy: You look the perfect little gentleman, especially with your glasses. :D
Stephen, I do usually tweak the levels on photos I post, but I can only claim any real success with the first three: the last, and oldest, of those four photos turned out so well because it was professionally scanned from a slide at 2000×2000 pixels-per-inch. So the moral is, have excellent starting material, and get a professional to do it.
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
These photographs are great! I love looking through old family photos (“Did I really have that haircut?”); there’s something wonderfully nostalgic about it. I’m sure we often can’t remember doing a lot of these things in our youth, but seeing these pictures brings it all back.