03/12/2008 by Woodsy.

I have been a little inactive on the photography front of late, and so I decided to trawl through some of a large collection of scanned family photographs from old times and new, and thusly this shot is not of my doing but has value all the same.Back in the days pre-1980 my uncle Stephen owned a frisky Porsche 911, he later sold it and bought himself a home; wonderful picture with some real speed to it (ill try find out what racetrack this was taken on).

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03/12/2008 by Woodsy.

Another one of a collection of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives. The scratches to this picture proved to difficult (without dedicated too much time) to remove without loosing original detail, so for the sake of presentation I have left this picture untouched. (I may revisit these old black and white pictures in an attempt to clean them further – perhaps when I acquire Photoshop CS4).

Here my great granddad and his work colleague on the job with their errands worth of mail, in those days Post Officers were regarded with high renown and dressed in a much smarter garb. Honestly speaking, if I could walk around dressed like that, and be awarded, on a daily basis, the respect these people were, I would happily sign up.

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01/12/2008 by Woodsy.

Here we have one of a collection (not all uploaded) of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives, not my work, but I have tried my humble best to present a digital copy.

Horses have always been in my family, here is a lovely warm picture of my mother and uncle (brother and sister) with their riding hats on, lovely texture in this picture. Almost unchanged with minor noise removed and a little cropping.

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01/12/2008 by Woodsy.

Here we have one of a collection (not all uploaded) of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives, not my work, but I have tried my humble best to present a digital copy.

The native dimensions of this photograph matched that of an old tea-card, however for this shot I managed to remove some of the more predominant scratches without loosing original detail. I have little information about this picture apart from its rough date which is around 1950s.

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01/12/2008 by Woodsy.

Here we have one of a collection (not all uploaded) of old shoe-box black and white prints from the family archives, not my work, but I have tried my humble best to present a digital copy.

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26/11/2008 by Woodsy.

Perhaps not the most awe-inspiring photograph but, from a personal standpoint, it does posses a certain mood to it. Masterfully framed, despite the unwelcome scratches acquired from scanning an old weathered 6 x 4 print. The print appears to be filed in my November 2002 shots, though I suspect this was taken earlier in the year.

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26/11/2008 by Woodsy.

Taken in July 2000 (Beth would be about 6 years old here) with my old trusty Yashica Minster fixed 35mm pure mechanical camera. Unfortunately quite a bit of dust and scratches were revealed during the scan of this print, but nonetheless I believe this to be a wonderful little portrait, perhaps one of the first aimed portraits I shot.

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26/11/2008 by Woodsy.

Can’t entirely recollect what occasion this was taken from, some form of house party I would think, I do know it was taken in February 2000. Dear sister painted in flowery face-paint.

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26/11/2008 by Woodsy.

Presented to you from a carefully scanned print (of 6 x 4). Its exposure is unchanged with no enhancements other than minor work to remove surface noise obtained from scanning a printed photograph. In addition I have adjusted the gamma to compensate for some extra lighting captured during the scan.

on TheRocks1 and 2 are great natural pictures, here Vicky is completely unaware of the camera and is entirely absorbed in the act of netting for rock pool creatures unknown. These were shot in 2003 using a Nikon F60 35mm.

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26/11/2008 by Woodsy.

Presented to you from a carefully scanned print (of 6 x 4). Its exposure is unchanged with no enhancements other than minor work to remove surface noise obtained from scanning a printed photograph. In addition I have adjusted the gamma to compensate for some extra lighting captured during the scan.

on TheRocks1 and 2 are great natural pictures, here Vicky is completely unaware of the camera and is entirely absorbed in the act of netting for rock pool creatures unknown. These were shot in 2003 using a Nikon F60 35mm.

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