My (adoptive) parents & my maternal grandmother (who raised me).
My maternal grandmother and I. She was the MOST IMPORTANT person in my life. She brought me up. I called her ‘Ambili Amma‘ (Moon Mother). First words I spoke. Changed my life.
You can get a glimpse of my father’s large library through the French windows. My mother, an expert cake maker made these 3D cakes. This wasn’t her fanciest.
The sign on the bike says ’60’ (I think). That is my mother’s youngest sister, who lived with us — as did my grandmother. You can see our ‘Borgward’ in the car porch
As I have already spoken about & POSTED, I got an Epson FastFoto 680W so I could start digitizing my childhood pictures (or what I still have left). I already posted the 1st batch from 1953. These were the very first COLOR photos. I think they are from 1960 — judging from sign on the bike and the candles on the cake. I could, as ever, be wrong. Could be BOTH 1959 + 1960. C’est la vie.
What the album, probably from the 1960s, looks like.
I have two albums, i.e., ‘Kodak‘ yellow, handed down from my adoptive parents (– yes, I was a genuine hospital MIX-UP). Since I was born in 1953, they contain pictures from 1953 to about 1956. I hadn’t looked at these two albums in years. I happen to, mainly by accident, come across them recently. Occured to me that I should try and preserve them — not for I but for posterity.
I looked at some options & quickly worked out that getting an Epson FastFoto 680W was going to be my best bet. Got one. VERY IMPRESSED so far. Does exactly as promised.
All the pictures shown have been AUTOMATICALLY enhanced by the Epson software as they are being scanned. The enhancements are REAL. After the first batch I just told the software NOT to even bother saving the original. Just give me the enhanced images.
This is the tip of the iceberg. I have hundreds and hundreds to scan. Many more albums though all the others are NOT as old.
