I have been on a picture binge. I found a color slide of my deceased uncle and aunt. Though a lovely woman, she was camera shy so there are few pictures of her. I tried to get prints made at the drugstore but Kodak sent them back with a note saying they are no longer providing that service. So I took the slide to a local photography shop and it made prints which I sent to my cousins and the couple's grandchildren. That is how it started. Next I took my great grandfather's large photographic portrait to the same shop and had 8 x 10 reductions made. The shop corrected some damaged areas of the original and the prints look great. I took one copy to his only surviving 87 year old grandchild. I have an old school group picture which with a magnifying glass you can just make out my 14 year old father among many children. The photography shop enlarged the picture of my father and now I have a rare portrait of him in his last year of formal education. I was so intrigued by what the photography shop was able to do with this group picture I had a poster size enlargement made with the intention of giving it to the school. I like it so much I am tempted to keep it. I feel fortunate to have found a local source for these and many more photographic services which may be of interest to the DOGS membership. CCI photographics is located at 1916 Perry Street off of Ninth Street near Blacknall Presbyterian Church. Its website is www.cciphotographics.com <http://www.cciphotographics.com/> . Instead of a negative, a DVD disk comes with every service and the cost of copies is quite reasonable. JBR

I'll second the recommendation. A couple of years ago, my father found a bunch of photos he had taken while he was overseas during WWII (and some at home). They scanned and reprinted the whole batch at quite reasonable rates and now I have two albums made from the reprints (one for me, one for my sister). There was one picture that was badly faded that my father originally identified as his father. The scanned and enhanced version came back so clear that he realized that it was actually his brother instead! Gwyneth --On Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:28 AM -0400 Jim Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been on a picture binge. I found a color slide of my deceased uncle > and aunt. Though a lovely woman, she was camera shy so there are few > pictures of her. I tried to get prints made at the drugstore but Kodak > sent them back with a note saying they are no longer providing that > service. So I took the slide to a local photography shop and it made > prints which I sent to my cousins and the couple's grandchildren. That is > how it started. Next I took my great grandfather's large photographic > portrait to the same shop and had 8 x 10 reductions made. The shop > corrected some damaged areas of the original and the prints look great. > I took one copy to his only surviving 87 year old grandchild. I have an > old school group picture which with a magnifying glass you can just make > out my 14 year old father among many children. The photography shop > enlarged the picture of my father and now I have a rare portrait of him > in his last year of formal education. I was so intrigued by what the > photography shop was able to do with this group picture I had a poster > size enlargement made with the intention of giving it to the school. I > like it so much I am tempted to keep it. I feel fortunate to have found a > local source for these and many more photographic services which may be > of interest to the DOGS membership. CCI photographics is located at 1916 > Perry Street off of Ninth Street near Blacknall Presbyterian Church. Its > website is www.cciphotographics.com > <http://www.cciphotographics.com/> . Instead of a negative, a DVD disk > comes with every service and the cost of copies is quite reasonable. JBR > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ---------------------------------------------------- Gwyneth Duncan Voice: 919-660-5860 Systems Librarian Fax: 919-684-2855 Perkins Library Email: [email protected] Box 90196 Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0196