Papa's Toy & Total Chaos

I've started revisiting some of the slides that I shot decades ago and digitally scanned about a dozen years ago, but haven't touched since.

After I had scanned the slides, I concentrated on the ones that were my favourite, working hard to bring them to digital life. I've already shared those photos in various blog posts, back then.

But because I do a random search for photos, which I share on my Bluesky account, I'm running into more of these images that I had simply scanned and stored. Looking through my feed, I literally did nothing with them, as the vertically oriented images appear in my file folders on their sides.

I wasn't even careful when scanning these B-list slides, as many are covered in dust.

But now, I'm having a second look at these images that I even didn't care too much about after I had initially captured them. At the very least, I'm turning the vertically shot images the right way up.

With some, however, I've digitally removed the dust and applied some photo editing to up the contrast and vibrancy, or even applied some filters to give them a slightly more dramatic look.

In 1995, DW and I drove out east to celebrate our first anniversary. We visited places in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and PEI. We did a mix of camping (back when I loved to camp) and staying in B&Bs.

I've already shared several images from our stay in Fundy National Park, near the small town of Alma. One of my favourite photos of all time was captured in the harbour in Alma, but there were several others that I shot at various times, as the dramatic tide came in and went out.

The following photo was part of that set but for some reason, I never paid any attention to it until I rediscovered it, near a 'random photo,' and decided to clean it up.

I still look at the photo, even cleaned and edited, and think, meh, it's okay, but I'm glad I've done something with it and can add it to my photo database. I do, however, like the names of the two prominent boats: Papa's Toy and Total Chaos.

I wonder how those boats are doing today. Are they still in service?

I'll clean up more photos and share them in the future. Actually, I'll share a couple more, tomorrow, for another Throwback Thursday post. Stay tuned.

Happy Wednesday!