01/03/2022
Photography has been a part of my whole life. I love making photographs, looking at photographs, studying photographs. The historical importance of them cannot be denied.
I still have the feels from looking at an original Westin pepper photograph at an art gallery in NYC. I was inches away from a master!
I recently helped out a friend and it made me think just how easy it is to share something so simple but so important. I'd like to offer to anyone responding to this, an enhanced image of one of your historical family photographs. I've done this to numerous of my own and not everyone has the software, skills, time or desire and for me, it is rather easy. So, send your favorite historical family photograph and I'll do my best to bring a little more life to it. Message me for details.
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Misti Layne’s photographic creativity and her ability to capture an unexpected moment in time have long been known to me, and many others whose image has been captured through her camera lens. Misti’s talent as a photo editor became even more clear when she “took liberties” with a faded, probably very low-resolution, image of my grandparent’s wedding party, which I had copied and pasted from an online obituary page. To say I was impressed with the results would be an understatement of grand proportion.
I was so happy to have found the original image, that the quality—or lack thereof—didn’t even cross my mind, I knew it was my grandparents and I guess my mind just filled in the blanks. When Misti tweaked the image into focus and made the necessary edits, their faces came to life. There was my lovely grandmother and my grandfather at his most handsome moment, with all their closest friends in attendance on what was her most special day, her Birthday and their Wedding Day.
Misti’s kind gesture to refurbish an old friend’s photo without being asked shows her true spirit of generosity and a love of her craft that does not go unnoticed.
