At the photolab business I worked at for many years the owner's first job was in a drafting department for a power company. He had plesant memories of the place. He found a really nice antique drafting table and mechanical arm and a fancy antique lamp that went with it. All really cool looking. So he bought it, and put in at the lab.

In analog photography, if a tiny speck of dust in on the film, it leaves a white spot on the print. On a custom print, we would go in with special spotting dyes, and a tiny brush and add color to the dust spot. It would pretty much vanish if done right. We used that table to spot photos and not much else.

When the business shut down due to digital photography changing everything, it did not sell at the auction even for a dollar. It went to the dumpster and the landfill.

So sad.

The 911 is washed. It was perfect was the car weather. 60 degrees, overcast and very light breeze. Nothing dried too fast, and the temps were comfortable to exert effort.

I knew an old time artist when I was a teen. his job was to 'touch up' 8 x 10 prints to be shot again in a fixture. Amazing what he could do with an airbrush and some fine brushes. If he couldn't get in tight enough I suppose they enlarged the print and when he was done they's shoot it again for a normal size negative.

Must have had good glass.

We had a lady in Alabama that was a master in hand oiling and added color to a portrait we would shoot of a client. She could make it look like a very high end oil painting. Kodak even had a competition back in the early 70s for that. They would mail us a 4x5 B&W negative and a 8x10 color photo of the subject from a different angle. She would use that as the reference, and had oil a 16x20 print and make it look amazing.

Long before the days of photoshop. She would use a chemical bleach from q-tip to lighten dark areas of a print, and dyes to color it. It was very tedious work. I am really glad we have Photoshop now. That make is a million times easier.

Stijn!!
 

Wow, great day for the car show. I bet there were 400 to 500 cars. Everything from new to 1914 model T.

It only got to 80 degrees near the end of the day.

The autocross was a challenging setup. All first gear until the last leg of it. Lots of shoulder workout for me.

One PCA member showed up with his new toy, and 1981 911. It look to a casual observer to be a 911 SC, but it had no badges. It was the result of the previous owner spending a WHOLE LOT of money on it. It was a 2,250 pound car with triangulated strut bars on the shock towers no carpet, tiny battery, no cabin carpet, full roll cage, race seats, stroked 3.0 high compression engine with no distributor, all electronic ignition no AC of course, very well done track car. Treadwear 20 tires, and gee, he managed to beat my time. He was fairly competitive to the modern cars, but factory stock 2020 911 beat him by a full second.

It finally stopped pretending to be WA state here. At least all the rain softened the ground to let us get the steel fence post out of the ground. Sunny and mid 70s this week!

David your IT guys still jacking with you?

Last night on the weather they said that last month was over 3 degree below normal temperature. This month so far is 6.2 degrees below normal. For summer months I like it. I sure hope winter is not below normal temperatures.

I presume David's IT department is still getting cussed at if he has not posted on this site at all as yet.

afternoon all. Back on line and taking the time to catch up on work. Things are still not perfect. For a bit I had two passwords one for the laptop one for the network.

The bigger issue is all the smoke. The air quality index right now is 230. Last night it was 292. Even sitting here in the house its getting to me.

That has to suck. Breathing is a habit my mom got me started in a long time ago. We have had some smoky days when the grass fires are bad, but noting remotely like the west coast now.

Wow, it is nice outside. 67 degrees and a light breeze. The humidity is way high, but that is supposed to drop some this week.

I received my absentee ballot in the mail yesterday. It is almost comical to see Kanye West as a choice for president. I would prefer him to some of the other choices on there. I did not vote for him.

I will get it notarized, and mail it in sometime soon. The election is over for me. Unfortunately I have to hear the BS for the next 50 days from every source possible. I am glad I listen to commercial free Pandora for my music. I record all TV and fast forward through any commercial. Amazon prime TV is commercial free.

Not al of Prime is commercial free.

David, glad to hear your IT department didn't have to go into hiding. I am sure that they would feel bad if IT people had feelings.

Sunny and low 70s all week here. Then 50s on the weekend.

Moring all. It rained a little last night. Not enough to clear the air. We are still at 228. Most places in Oregon are over 400.

IT department is currently being hunted...….

Brent, the only commercials I have even seen on Amazon prime is for other Amazon shows. The important thing is no (multiple expletives deleted) political commercials or car commercials or feminine hygiene or drug company commercials. Only commercials for the other shows on Amazon.

And David, the IT department (Mordoc the denier of information exchange) is usually hunted and hated my most corporate employees. One of the big firms we worked with had the FTP so locked down that an email with any mention of FTP was just deleted before our client could see it. She finally took her laptop to a McDonald's across the street, and downloaded the file, and copied it onto a thumb drive, and had to smuggle that into the building and use the one computer on the network with a functional USB port to get her project.

Often we had to send the ling to the IT department, and they would download it, and put it on the network for the users. They had paid many thousands of dollars for the data, and could not even see it, but by golly they were safe!

There are several shows on Prime with limited commercial interruptions.

Safe is good. Locked down so you can't work not so much.

These stupid older iPads are driving me crazy. Or the MDM is being stupid. Not sure which in this case.

My wife handed me a "honey do" list. Lots of "fun" projects to do.