Happy Anniversary Me
My anniversary was yesterday. I felt guilty not posting, but I'd probably feel guiltier had I spent the 20 minutes it usually takes me to "get it how I like it". My wife Lela and I have been married for four years. We have two children, Eve and Megan. We spent the evening with them, but we're going out Saturday night, WooHoo!
So, CharleyFix is up. We've got the Upload page up, which is very user friendly. It's easy to do an upload page when you don't have to worry about a credit card! I'm pleased with how that'll work. I've still got to finish out the volunteer login, and the rest of the pages, but it's a good start. My personal goal would be to have it finished by tomorrow afternoon.
So, a funny photo restoration story from a friend in photo restoration I'll call:
"The Eye of the Beholder".
A customer submitted an old family portrait circa 1920. It was a beautiful sepia tone image with Mother in a big, old dress - sitting in a big wooden chair, and the family all around her. There was a teenage daughter standing to her right, and her young eleven year old boy on her left. All were leaning in and giving their best close-lipped, barely-turned-up-corners-of-the-mouth 1920's smiles. The instructions were to remove everyone from the photo but the eleven year old...
Some may disagree, but photo restoration artists are... human. Yes, just human. And the artist had seen the boy not leaning against his mother's chair, but had seen the boy leaning against a cane. A wooden cane. The Mother's dress was large enough to cover up most of the wooden chair, and based on how the boy was standing, with one foot behind the other, it was difficult to tell that he had two feet. So the artist simply took out everyone and made the boy look as natural as possible with his wooden cane... Standing in the middle of the room on his one foot.
When the customer showed up to pick up the picture, it was hard to tell who laughed harder, the customer or the restorer once he'd realized that he'd spent an hour turning an arm rest into a cane without realizing it!
I'm a big fan of linking up the post, but it's been such a long week, have a good weekend I'm out. Thanks for reading. Post comments if you like. I get nearly 250 uniques a day, and if I don't see some comments soon I'm going to disable that part of the site! It's getting embarassing...
So, CharleyFix is up. We've got the Upload page up, which is very user friendly. It's easy to do an upload page when you don't have to worry about a credit card! I'm pleased with how that'll work. I've still got to finish out the volunteer login, and the rest of the pages, but it's a good start. My personal goal would be to have it finished by tomorrow afternoon.
So, a funny photo restoration story from a friend in photo restoration I'll call:
"The Eye of the Beholder".
A customer submitted an old family portrait circa 1920. It was a beautiful sepia tone image with Mother in a big, old dress - sitting in a big wooden chair, and the family all around her. There was a teenage daughter standing to her right, and her young eleven year old boy on her left. All were leaning in and giving their best close-lipped, barely-turned-up-corners-of-the-mouth 1920's smiles. The instructions were to remove everyone from the photo but the eleven year old...
Some may disagree, but photo restoration artists are... human. Yes, just human. And the artist had seen the boy not leaning against his mother's chair, but had seen the boy leaning against a cane. A wooden cane. The Mother's dress was large enough to cover up most of the wooden chair, and based on how the boy was standing, with one foot behind the other, it was difficult to tell that he had two feet. So the artist simply took out everyone and made the boy look as natural as possible with his wooden cane... Standing in the middle of the room on his one foot.
When the customer showed up to pick up the picture, it was hard to tell who laughed harder, the customer or the restorer once he'd realized that he'd spent an hour turning an arm rest into a cane without realizing it!
I'm a big fan of linking up the post, but it's been such a long week, have a good weekend I'm out. Thanks for reading. Post comments if you like. I get nearly 250 uniques a day, and if I don't see some comments soon I'm going to disable that part of the site! It's getting embarassing...
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