My parents married on April 4, 1943, and I am posting this image to mark their anniversary. This image began as a small black and white snapshot of my parents, taken on their honeymoon in Brooklyn, in my Grandma Zagon's back yard. It is one of my favorite photos of them. Back in 2014, I posted a different version, a colorized "digital woodcut" created from the snapshot with Painter. Here is what I said about the image in 2014: "My folks were married on April 4, 1943, and I usually create an image to celebrate the date. My dad was born in Brooklyn, NY, but met my mother in Pueblo, Colorado where he was stationed during WW II before going off to Europe . My parents met at a USO dance and married just a few weeks later, and took a brief honeymoon to New York just before he went overseas for two years. While he was away, my mother kept an album that began with their first date, their wedding, and honeymoon, and then pictures he sent her back from Europe as well as pictures of her doings back home in Pueblo. This morning I chose this snapshot, part of the honeymoon series in my mom's album. I don't know who took the picture, but it was probably one of my father's sisters.I scanned the snapshot into the computer, and used Painter software to add color with color overlays and digital pastel, and tried to get a little distance with a digital woodcut effect. It was fun working on this today. My mother labeled each picture (with ink on black paper) and she called this one "Mr. and Mrs. Hy." Today, in 2024, I went back to the image and decided to update it. I loaded the colorized version into the Prisma app and tried out some filters. I chose one called "Trendy" (which I wouldn't say describes my parents, but then love is never out of date).
Thursday, April 04, 2024
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