Category Archives: photographs
Bringing Old Photos Back To Life: Picnik Test
I have a bunch (okay, 4 or 5 big photo album worth) of photos from the 1980s that are slowly fading into obscurity. The colors have washed out. They look worse than the color photos in my collection from the 1960s and 1970s! I wanted to use a couple of the photos for an article …
Wordless Wednesday: Dressed Up For Winter
This is me, ca 1966. San Francisco Bay Area not Nome, Alaska.
Wordless Wednesday: Pacheco Sisters
Not so wordless today. These are the daughters of Francisco Pacheco and Alexandria de Caires. On the left Sophie (Pacheco) Figg. On the right, Maria (Pacheco) Homan/Buskirk. Sophie was married by 1915 and living in Hawaii with her husband, who was a soldier stationed there. So, I’m guessing this photo was taken around 1913-1914. The …