Sunday March 3, 2013

Sunday March 3/13  update #381

I didn’t have a very good night so I just got up and uploaded more works for sale.

Bella was off for banking and groceries, then bridge at Joe’s.   She is getting very frustrated and needs to find a real competitive situation soon.

I slipped up to Jay’s place, nice apartment on Escandon, to check out the collage he is working on for us as a collaboration for the Hearts Of Gold Silent Auction on the 13^th.  He has done a great job and I can’t wait to see the final result when everything is glued down and then framed.

Jay showed me many of his prior collages, many autographed by our childhood hockey heroes.   He has put a lot of work into those, without benefit of any computers.   Wayne, Mario, Gordie, Bobby, Paul, Tim, and many others he has done over the years.

Then he showed me several old personal photographs and he asked if there was any way he could get some decent enlargements off them if he dragged them to the Fuji store.  I told him most of them would have to be scanned, cleaned up and adjusted severely before they could produce anything decent.  I offered to experiment on a few, so he gave me one with Guy LaFleur (The Flower), and two with Yvon Cournoyer (The Roadrunner), plus a great old championship photo of the Sons Of Ireland featuring his father.  That last photo is easily my favourite as I love the old black and whites.  Jay has given me permission to share the results with you.   I have not only taken a small original and made it possible to get a larger enlargement, but I have had to clean up a lot of fading, flash glare, folds, dust and scratches, but I am not displeased with the results.  Sometimes there is only so much you can do with a small, damaged original.

Bella made it home and we went out to KFC for a long overdue treat.   She had also brought home some leftover cinnamon buns from Joe’s for dessert, yummmmy!

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.    Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/