I have been working a lot on restoring family photos. It has been a true labor of love.
This photo didn't need a lot of work, but I wanted to clean it up a bit and then crop out a lot of the background to increase the focus on the subjects.
These three people mean a great deal to me. They are my mother, my grandmother, and my oldest son. It was taken during the summer of 1999 in my grandmother's garage.
Had I not been the one taking the photo, it would have been a four-generation photo.
I'm happy that my grandmother was around long enough to get to meet both of my boys. I only hope that my oldest still has a few memories of her.
I know which restored version is my favorite, can you guess?
(original photo, click on it to display a larger version)
(restored photo, click on it to display a larger version)
(restored and portrait-cropped photo, click on it to display a larger version)
(restored and landscape-cropped photo, click on it to display a larger version)
