I'm still finding gems among the pictures my brother took way back when. Many of them need painstaking touching up, due to various hazzards of travelling to the other side of the world at some point in their existence. So when I found this portrait today, I sorted its annoying, white dots and now here's Dad, unspotted! It's a wonderful character study, and I couldn't resist offering it up for
Sepia Saturday, without more ado, as the 'hundreds' (?) of tiny blemishes I removed make it a fitting tribute to their 100th post!
What A Handsome Strong Looking Man!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing what can be done with photographs and very pleasing when they're treasured, irreplaceable mementoes.
ReplyDeleteYou did well with it. By the glasses, I am guessing sixties or early seventies?
ReplyDeleteVery creative Jinksy, of course. I would give anything for a photo like that of my father. He was only in my life a few short years. Alcohol, just a destroyer of life.
ReplyDeleteQMM
What a face! I would love to know his story...
ReplyDeleteRemoving all those "dots" was a labor of love.
Very handsome Father, and I marvel at your patience in touch up. i used to do that before the marvels of computer programs. For a person very short in the virtue of patience, I never perfected the "by hand" technique.
ReplyDeleteI hope Jinlsy used a computer to remove all those dots and bring out your dad, un-dotted. Good job.
ReplyDeleteAs you say a good character study. Well done on de-spotting him!
ReplyDeleteHe looks like a man that looks on the bright side of life.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great photo! Well done for restoring it to its former glory. :-)
ReplyDeleteWonderful photo of your Dad Jinksy, so glad you were able to de-spot him and share with us
ReplyDeleteYes, I was looking at the glasses, too, with those little mini lenses at the bottom for reading. So nostalgic.
ReplyDeleteNice job of de-spotting. Such a handsome man.
ReplyDeleteHe looks very much like an RAF pilot who was a family friend.
ReplyDeleteNice photo.
I love all the different interpretations for the 100 theme but yours wins the prize. 100 spots removed from your dad's photo. Very clever indeed.
ReplyDeleteNancy javier
Excellent unspotting, and what an impressive portrait of your Dad.
ReplyDeleteThe glasses date it - I had a pair like that in the 1970s. I didn't look as good in them as your Dad - less hair for a start.
ReplyDeleteLovely picture : it is the kind of face I think I know. I suspect he was the kind of person I would have liked to have known. Thank you so much for being such a firm supporter of Sepia Saturday, it has always been a joy to read your posts.
ReplyDeleteHe looked a really nice guy with a *comfortable* face.
ReplyDeleteMaggie x
Nuts in May
Well done on your photo restoration - your Dad looks like a very kindly man. Jo
ReplyDeleteQuite a handsome man, spotted or unspotted!
ReplyDeleteBarbara
Well polished! He looks like a man with warmth and humour.
ReplyDeleteSo, here I am to say, officially, how much I love this photo of your Dad. Now, we not only have seen the wonderful art, but we see the artist! I look forward to more from your treasure trove, though I know it's a big job you've got there scanning in slides. (I've not even attempted it with mine!)
ReplyDeletePS: Computer problem still not solved, but I have taken the drastic step of borrowing a laptop until my tech helper can (hopefully) figure this out tomorrow--imagine not being able to get into blogger to write posts and log on to make comments on blogs of other folks!
Jinksy, I don't think you should do this to us. I don't think you should post a marvelous photo of a man you knew so well and not tell us about him! I want to know what his personality was like, what he did for a living, what was happening when this photo was taken.... Is this man the artist whose work you've posted in the past? (Or am I thinking of another Sepia Saturdayite?)
ReplyDeleteNancy - I'll see what I can do when I'm not so germ ridden! lol. :)
ReplyDeleteNice restoration!!
ReplyDeleteGood for you!!
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HUGZ
Well done on the restoration job. Great photo. I love portraits like this one. Not posed. Great glasses too. Could be a recent photo, since glasses similar to those are back in fashion again. At least I hope so, because I bought a couple last Saturday ;-)
ReplyDeleteJinksy, take care and get better.
ReplyDeleteYou left a comment on my post.... I think a post focused on your father would be great. As bloggers (or, as a genealogy blogger) we often do several posts about one person, not all in succession and not necessarily in chronological order of a person's life. Readers aren't always consistent in reading every post. That said, I realized I've probably missed several posts about your father. But, it would be fun to see a brief "biography" of your dad with his photo and some of his drawings and some anecdotal information that enlightens us about his personality. He looks like such an interesting man.
Take care of yourself and get better.
Photoshop is such a wonderful blessing for restoring old photographs...You did wonderful work on your father's photo.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful portrait, thank you. However, like Nancy, I'm waiting for the story to go with it.
ReplyDeleteFantastic restoration! Well worth the effort to restore. I love these candid shots. I can't help but wonder what he was looking at.
ReplyDeleteIt was probably one of his granddaughters, Liz...
ReplyDeleteI've been doing the same, going over pictures of family from so many years ago...it's a job but one done with love...
ReplyDeleteSandi