A Pedestal's Not Good Enough

Instead, I placed (a teenage version of) my bride... on a local hilltop. And since I had the cactus flower lying around on the desktop..

She Walks Away.

..and no matter how much you want her to, she won't turn back.

This is another of those "this and that" processes, most of which I can't even remember.. try this? Nah. Try that? Yeah, that works. Let's add something else. Original color print. Some Photoshop Elements, some ACDSee Pro.

Hey!, you wonder, is that Margaret? Why yes.. yes it is.

Coldstone Creamery.

It's OK. It was a _________________ cemetery. (Insert a religion you love to hate. Easy one for me.)

Haven't posted a picture of the fabulous Margaret recently, and this one hides a secret I won't tell. See previous.

Memphis Belle.

It's time for another image of the love of my life. Yet another medium is represented here, as this is a Polaroid black and white original.. (in fact, the sharp-eyed will see the box and some other prints! I've had this image since it's capture and I just noticed it today while zoomed in for the hand tinting!)

The picture was taken at a park somewhere in the Memphis, TN area when the young Margaret came to visit a lonely sailor. And dumped him.

At least it wasn't via a "Dear John", and of course, things eventually worked out just fine.

Rippled water effect from ACDSee Pro, hand tinting and "60's" color with rounded corners and frame from Picnik.

Trailer Tras.. Treasure

Of course, no day full of examples of selectively tinted images would be complete without an image of the woman, who by a circuitous route, would become my wife. Margaret, about age 16.

White-Hot Babe on a White-Hot Blanket.

This, on the other hand, is Margaret.

An original Kodacolor 620 3.5 x 3.5 print, scanned, converted to black and white, then selectively re-colored with Picnik "Tint" effect tool, and posterized.

My favorite model. (and my current desktop wallpaper)

Let's Begin at the Beginning.

This all started quite innocently enough. I had an album full of Polaroids (the digital camera of the '60s), and Argus 75 square prints- both black and white, and color- of Margaret. A very young Margaret. The featured image, from an original Polaroid print, in fact, shows a Margaret young enough that had that bikini top slipped, I probably could have been arrested. But let's not go there now.  Her grown children wouldn't approve.

Anyway, I wanted to get digital files of these images, so I scanned them, and cleaned up the dust and mold spots, and left them in a folder on the computer. That's how I got the above image, which is also used as the image in the blog title.  That, I thought, would be the end of it.

It was later, as I began to go through several decades worth of black and white negatives and prints that I got the idea to see what could be done with the plethora of editing tools that reside on my hard drive. That's where we'll go in future posts.  This could prove to get real interesting.