Girl driving pigs

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https://www.davidarment.photos/People-Images/Restoration/i-WS2JPW4/A

The only thing written on the original of this image is "Driving to Market". 

this is a restoration of a very old image.

 

Image restoration

 

The photos above are before and after of old pictures updated for a friend of mine with whom I used to work. They are of her and her husband, vintage 1970.

The purpose of this post is to show how AI has changed photo restoration. I used to restore old photos for people and it would take a long time and the results were nothing compared to the above.

Below are a few pictures from old Steroview cards. I will try to pick out some of these to work on later today. Here are a couple I've done this morning.

Capital Building Austin Texas. I have no clue as to the time this picture was taken. Note how the AI removed the person walking.

Two different restorations below.

The card shows the following notation, "179 Kyoto, Japan, Kiyomizu Temple". There is a banner to the side that says World Series and there are other letters I cannot read. I believe there is a copyright of 1905 (which would have expired in 1955).

I will try to find time to work on more of these because it is kinda' fun.

What do you think? Is it worth the effort.

To restore the cards it requires a scan on a scanner. Then you have to crop out one of the two "stereo" pictures. For some reason the top of the photos have "arches" so you then have to figure out how to deal with that space. Then you move it into the software and go to work with the picture there.

Let me know!

Joshua 24:15

 Joshua 24:15 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

pam sets in motion chain of events re: uranium

Today Pam had the milk out of the refrigerator and was smelling it. She had the screw lid off if it and her nose was right over the top. (The lid off the milk not off the refrigerator.) That is not a good sign. It usually means it has gone bad (the milk not the refrigerator).

I needed some milk for my cereal and she said it was okay. And it did seem okay. 

We buy milk in those plastic jugs. As you know the best jugs are the ones you can see the milk inside. It is rewarding and comforting to see your milk. But the jug we were dealing with this morning was opaque white. You couldn't see the milk. It's like they want to hide something. You are pretty sure milk is in there but there is no way to know for sure because you can't see your own milk.

So everyone knows the best jugs are the clearer ones. Okay, maybe you don't know that but everyone else knows it so that's why I can say "everyone knows this".

But sometimes you get what you get when it comes to the milk game.

Then later in the day Pam said we will have company tomorrow and we need new milk. New milk. Fresh Milk. Good Milk. We didn't need new milk for me, but for company... people who don't even live here... we need better milk.

So what do you make of that? What is the meaning of this? There is some deep psychological issue here that needs to be uncovered on an unconscious level.

On the list I knew the first word was "herseys". You can see it there on the list for yourself. You don't know this, but I know that this means chocolate in the bottle. So although it is "shorthand" I was very proud of myself to figure that one out on my own.

Milk was the second one, and it was easy to figure out because she told me I had to go get milk because the milk we have is bad for company, (but not bad for me).

I knew I need help with this third item, because I had no clue what it said.

The store is usually not real busy. I had to get help to read the list. I asked a young clerk for help. 

She thought it is "1 uranium - 2". One uranium dash 2.

So I asked her if they sold "One uranium dash 2" and she said no, they do not. 

I asked if they had ever sold anything that had uranium in it's name and she said she didn't think so.

So we mutually concluded that the writing probably didn't say "uranium anything".

It looks like "- I U neam 2". What does it look like to you? And if it really is "- I U neam 2" what aisle would that be in?

The last item looks like instructions to go to a baseball game and spray a batter. Okay, but what if they object to being sprayed? And sprayed with what?

Or maybe it says 5 pray batter.

Not on the list is my favorite dip. So I wasn't able to buy it because she didn't put it on the list and I forgot I wanted it.

I'm wondering if the grocery store reported us to the government of the USofA for wanting to buy "1 uranium - 2". I wonder if "1 uranium - 2" it is dangerous. I bet the Iranians would love to have some. And maybe even typing it in this little... this... whateverthisis could put us on the radar of some clandestine operative.

If he comes to visit during the night I hope he brings my dip.

Be Still and Know

Psalm 46:10

 

Artistic Journey

 Everyone changes over time. Everyone changes over time in lots of different ways.

Above is a lighthouse picture that was on my website (www.davidarment.photos) until a few minutes ago. It is not there any longer. Apparently, at one time, I thought it a fine picture and good enough to post there on the website.

I looked at it today and thought to myself... why did you do that? What were you thinking?

Here is what went up in it's place...

What changed in me to think the one below is better than the one above?

Another question is did I have the same tools and skills 13 years ago when the picture was captured to make it into the image below. I may have changed in my tastes and views of what is good and what is bad in terms of images. The software has changed a great deal, for sure. My abilities to employ that software have also surely improved because I've spent so much time editing.

So what do you think. Which picture do you prefer and why?

As I say to my ARC Photo Students... Would you hang that on your wall?

Best regards, 

PS here is a link to the image that survives on the website.

https://www.davidarment.photos/Buildings/Lighthouses/i-8nvVsxN/A

and here is a link to learn more about the lighthouse...

https://www.kewauneepierheadlighthouse.org/

you talk to your bones

 

I stop working at 8PM. My days are not like most people's. I work "hit and miss" throughout the day. But I quit whatever I'm doing at 8.

Work should likely be in quotation marks, because it's not like I'm baling hay or plowing a field or hanging drywall. Nope. I'm sitting at a computer trying to figure out how to make a picture look better or how to spell a word.

After 8 o'clock we watch TV for 1.5 hours. I sit in a recliner type chair and Pam sits in her chair which has a leaf pattern and looks very outdoorsy and therefore is just right for her. 

After sitting that long I have figured out - over time - that I just can't "stand up". No, that doesn't work anymore. Now I've learned to "talk to my bones".

I say to them, "Okay, now we are going to stand up in just a minute. Get ready!".

Then when I stand up, I just stand. I don't walk or move around. I just stand. The bones crackle and pop in objection to the weight put upon them. The stiffness doesn't disappear until you take a few steps, but one thing at a time, first you have to stand there for a minute.

Then when you walk you have to be sure that the message has been delivered to the entire body... "We are walking now". Some of the individual parts may have mistaken sitting for an hour and a half for sleep. They think its nighty-night time and they don't want to move. So you don't move quickly.

So this is how you know you are old.

You talk to your bones.

1 John 3:1