Old Photos

The advantage of being a small press author-publisher is being able to select the project and to create the book in the image most desired, from the picture lay-out to storytelling. Next, how will that image be recreated? A book. An image print. A single picture or a grouping. A story told by words or through pictures that somehow when assembled and connected recreate or even create a moment in time.

I'm not an artist by paint or chalk. A single line I can't place on paper so it appears to be a line, least not straight nor of value or recognizable as object or subject. My penmanship...most laugh, those that is not struggling to read, for it flows for me when I create it, not much more can be said than that.

To take a picture, poor exposure or best of the time and create from that something new or improved...

A group shot gathering of kids with Grandpa/Grandma could become an improved photo with wear marks to be removed

or cropped to become just a special couple...










With color/lighting, somehow the characters come to life...




A family-friends photo becomes just family...





















Or maybe an old scrapbook photo could pull into a closer view...










Hey, That's me!!!!















Many hours I could and do spend on a single photo just to see what is hidden there, you know telling a story, or at least one I love to tell... of some story I remember and others...only the picture could tell...

These are examples of what I am currently working on...

What was...

Becomes...

What is now this...

Author: Jane Marla VerDow, Dear Daisy copyright ©2004; Independent Publishing: Rising Sparrow Press, est. 2003.
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