Saturday 12/09/2023
My main self-assigned task today was to refresh my picture gallery in the hall. It has been displaying a collection of scenic landscapes for several months now. I had it in mind to put up a collection of “people” shots, candid portraits of strangers. Over the morning hours I searched my collection of digitized slides and selected a bunch of striking faces. I ran each one through the near-miraculous Topaz Photo AI, best value in an app I know of, and printed them off on good paper, 11×14 or 8×11.
The lower left one I have shown before, every holiday season. It was taken with a Nikon SLR using Ektachrome film, in 1979. We were walking around downtown San Francisco looking at the fancy window displays. Outside Gumps I looked down and there was this girl, looking at the Fabergé Eggs. Click. Difficult lighting but it came out. The girl in the red coat drinking from a fountain? The fountain is the Barcaccio, the boat fountain, in Rome, at the foot of the Spanish steps. That was taken some time in the 80s. The redhead upper right is sitting outside the city library in Melbourne, AU.
Other than that, I took a pleasant walk across the creek into Menlo Park for coffee at café Zoe. Practiced guitar chords. Worked on the 240z body.
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