These are from my great grandpa’s negatives. They’re 110, so the quality is pretty grim, and they’re scratched to hell, which hasn’t helped. I like the lo-fi feel of a lot of them, though.
Field
Hot air balloon
Flood in Austin, Minnesota, July 1978
Hormel Plant, Austin, Minnesota
I edited a few more of the negatives I scanned. These are 70mm negatives of my grandpa Mert, from when he joined the Navy in 1944. He was in the Seabees and spent most of WWII stationed in the Marshall Islands (on Kwajalein Island and Ebeye Island). The first photo must have been the keeper of the bunch, because it’s the one everyone in the family has seen. The rest were outtakes that I’d never seen. They were with my great grandpa John Meineke’s negatives, so I’m assuming he was the photographer.
The last photo is flippin’ adorable.
I ended up with my both grandpa’s and my great grandpa’s negatives and slides. I started scanning grandpa’s negatives years ago, then got distracted by life. Then last month my mom sent me my great grandpa’s negatives. I ended up having to buy a new negative scanner, because the old one died. Probably for the best, because the image quality from the new one (Epson Perfection V600) is better. I’m going to go back and rescan some of over/under exposed negatives, to see if I can capture more detail.
This one of my grandparents was seriously overexposed. And at some point Piglet chomped it, which hasn’t helped (you can see the teeth marks at the top of the bottom image). Aren’t they adorable, though? I think this was probably taken on their honeymoon, so about 1946.
Canon CanoScan 8800F, scanned 2011
Epson Perfection V600, scanned 2021
A doe with older fawns (one doe and one buck) were browsing on black raspberry leaves.
It’s been a long, cold spring, but things are finally starting to bloom in the garden.
Star of Bethlehem
Yarrow
Columbine
Chives
red paper boat 