Adam's Artistry

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Here is an example of what Adam will do for you. These images are even more impressive at full size where you can better see the wear and tear.

From his email: “All but impossible, really … I’m thinking you floated it out there just to see if I’d try. Well I did, and it’s better, but I had to take a fair bit of license, and I also had to stop lest I alter too much. Better some fingerprint texture remain than I concoct a complete stranger, I figured …”

Adam’s Artistry

original_and_retouched.jpg

Here is an example of what Adam will do for you. These images are even more impressive at full size where you can better see the wear and tear.

From his email: “All but impossible, really … I’m thinking you floated it out there just to see if I’d try. Well I did, and it’s better, but I had to take a fair bit of license, and I also had to stop lest I alter too much. Better some fingerprint texture remain than I concoct a complete stranger, I figured …”

Thursday Morning

Found this during my morning visit here, and then I checked my email and up popped this .

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Brian’s arrriving at 4 tomorrow morning and together we’re driving to Evansville. We should arrive around 10 PM, and then Saturday, at noon, I’ll pick up Matt and Diane who have the sense to fly. This is our annual spring trip.

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My father’s mother.

With Adam’s help, I’ve been busy printing and framing family photos. I’ll send him images which look like I’ve sprinkled talcum powder on the surface of the scanner, and/or have embedded water stains, wrinkles, age spots, etc., and he’ll return them in near perfect condition.

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Surely there are others out there with hair raising adventure stories? A canoe they tried to turn into triple masted schooner for a quick spin across hypothermic waters, for instance. A double back flip into shallow pointed-rock infested waters in northern Maine? A Dodge skating merrily on its top toward a frozen stream with hitch hikers on board? Cowering under a roaring jet landing at Michael Manley (how great a name is that?) airport in Jamaica? Hitting a black iced curve in the road at sixty with (also unbuckled) girl friend along side?