Frank Hardy Made My Photographs Two

For the people out there who have been following “Frank Hardy Made My Photographs” for the past two years, I want to personally thank you for all of your comments and checking back to see what I have been putting up in the past.  As for what the reason is for stopping the other blog, it was not me, but Blogger.  Since I did not renew my domain name in a timely enough fashion, the domain was placed in “domain purgatory”  ( my phrase ).  To get my domain name back, I would have had to pay an exorbitant ( to me ) fee and the emails it was going to take was going to be a real headache.  So after a great deal of thought, I just decided to start a new blog on WordPress.  I started my photography blog Frank Hardy Photo Blog a year ago on WordPress and I  like the results, mainly because the photo is so much larger than the one’s I was able to put up on Blogger.  And the photographs are what all of this is about, right?  I am not foolish  enough to believe that people tune in to read  my ramblings.

As far as the photo above is concerned, this is a photo made back in 1951 in a parade in downtown Pensacola on Palafox Street.  How many of you out there can remember these buildings having this black granite facade?   The lady was Miss USA 1951.  I will post a link to her in another post, because she has a rather interesting history.  Below is the photo as a straight black and white with only minimal Photoshop to clean up the scratches and boost up the contrast.  The image above is run through a filter called Topaz to achieve this effect … I also use a filter called Lucis to achieve a similar effect.

The internet does not show the details that the Topaz filter brings out as well as a print does.   If anyone has any questions, please feel free to send them to me … I have gotten everything corrected, so if you do write me, your email will not get bounced back to you.  Thanks again for all your patience and I do plan on re-posting everything that I had put up on the other site in the future … that is going to take me a while because I had over 230 posts in the two years that I had that site up.