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photo using a plain white bulb with the hopes of superimposing the text on the bulb in the digital domain. To make a long story short, the photolab in Chicago was not capable of scanning the |
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dug out his photography equipment, set up shop in the laundry room, and amazingly, were able to print acceptable contacts with twenty-five year old paper and chemicals. After drying the prints I inserted them into the cards and out they went, with a day to spare. [The business card on the back of the card was a remnant of my dad's days in the photography business back in the '70s.] |
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My Christmas cards this year took a slightly different form than I had originally envisioned, but turned out well nonetheless. The photograph on the card was to contain a blown glass Christmas tree ornament with the words hope, peace, joy, and love screened on the surface. After I was unable to locate the particular ornament, I went ahead and shot the |
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negative correctly so I settled for ordinary contact prints, which the photo lab then said they could not do in a timely cost-effective manner. So... three days before Christmas my dad and I |
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