These are on the side porch at a friend’s house. Fine color for this orchid, an epiphyte whose name comes from the Sanskrit word for this flower, vanda. Literal translation, I’m told, means “mistletoe” or, more generally, any parasitic plant.
Two Kids
This is a cropped version of a real photo postcard, printed on Artura stock that was made between 1910 and 1924. The image was very faded with moderate spotting and scratches.
A couple of things: I have heavily kicked up the contrast and the sharpness. I brightened the light reflections in the kids’ eyes, but I can’t correct the problem with the left kid’s left leg, as you view him. Notice that it looks like his leg ends before it even gets to the shoe. I enlarged it and it appears to be a lens aberration or a case of poor processing. Maybe he didn’t have a leg there…who knows?
