Randi on Shetland Pony (Restored Photo)
Originally uploaded by randubnick.
This old snapshot spent a long time languishing in a drawer. It's me on a pony ride at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo. The snapshot was scratched and full of creases. Last night I decided to fix it up, although the task looked impossible at first. Besides, the State Fair is in August, and today is the 31st, and it's time. So I scanned the photo and used Painter IX's digital scratch remover, which isn't as easy as it sounds. You have to enlarge the digital image past all recognition and continuously compare it to the tiny snapshot to make sure that you are actually removing a scratch, rather than an important part of a pony. The result isn't perfect, but at least the image is recognizable, and I am glad to have another nice memory restored. It's good to remember that just because something seems to be irretrievably lost at the moment, sometimes there's a chance that it might not be lost forever.
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