Going Back and Coming Forward; New Poster Series … The 1915 California-Panama Canal Exposition

I'm about 80-85% through the restoration/preservation/digitization of 1000 or so 100-year-old glass photographic slides.

Of the many things I learned in the process, and undoubtedly the most crucial, was a combination of techniques and technique-sequences, that to obtain the "cleanest" possible digital files both for pure photographic purposes, and, for various forms of derivatives.

I have started to go back to the slides I first digitized to apply what I know now but didn't know when I began. Improved image quality will be the number one and long-term objective, that is, preservation of old, one-of-a-kind photographs, of course; but marketing considerations based on derivatives of originals will be the immediate objective.

Market images as a series is what I'm working on at the moment; among the slides are those depicting the 1904 Worlds Fair, The Tennessee Centennial Exposition (1897) and The California-Panama Exposition of 1915. I've submitted these as straight photographs for consideration by publishers no modifications other than cleaning/restoring.

But now now I get to play and market the creative variations. They will be market for personal use only as prints on various media.

So, to begin (and this series will be Sepia toned)

The 1915 California-Panama Exposition, Balboa Park ~ San Diego, California

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