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Higher Quality Memories
11Jul2008 Filed under: family Author: Nora|
I kind of like te effect I get from taking cellphone snapshots of old photos I like. But I have to say, there’s something to be said for this scanning business. Here’s that photo of my great-grandfather again (click the picture to see it larger).He’s all dressed up for World War I. Luckily the war ended soon after this photo was taken. |
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I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.
dadmoo
July 12th, 2008 at 3:24 am
What amazing quasi-random images from the past. A military uniform looks almost as strange on Alfred Heininger as it would on Mahatma Ghandi.
dadmoo
July 12th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Much to my surprise, here’s a photograph of Ghandi in uniform as commander of a volunteer ambulance corps in the Boer
War.
seester
July 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
hey –
re your least post…there’s an odd, black, feathery object in the background of one of grandpa’s paintings from when he was at the school of fine arts in boston. could it be the mysterious parrot-like object in that picture?