Blast From the Past No.1

Sonia, New Year 1989/90, Sandwich in Kent.


  
This was the first of my "Blasts From the Past" series of scanned slides and negatives, so stay tuned for regular additions. Watch out for embarrassing clothes, haircuts and baby pictures. This one shows my wife (then fiance), Sonia, during a New Year break in Sandwich in Kent. It was taken with a Pentax ME Super camera on Kodak Ektar 1000, so quite grainy and flat in the colour original. Below is a monochrome version.


The unedited scan is shown below. I had to do some scratch and dust removal then B&W conversion with some added contrast in Photoshop.




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