Two rescues, one mood.

I decided to give these two photographs their own presentation.

They came from two completely separate sources. They are different format and orientation. It is not the same girl or room or pose. They were rescued years apart.

And yet ... There is an irresistible similarity in them: an atmosphere, a mood, a message.

Do you see it too?

Update in 2012: Here's two more!

While the one on the left matches the lighting of the two at the top, with the subject bathed in light from sources within the frame, the one on the right sits in shadow in spite of two light sources in the frame.

Update in 2014: And here's another!

While the lighting and pose are similar, the mood changes slightly because this woman seems to be smiling.

Update August 2014: And another, although the smile does change the mood.

Update August 2015: a somber look for a 19 year old.

On the reverse was this information: Dorothy Denman, 1940. From this information LOST GALLERY was able to find her in a family tree on Ancestry.Com

From Ancestry.com
Dorothy Mae Denman was born on January 26, 1921, in Houston, Texas, the child of Ernest Leo and Lennie Estelle. She married Gordon Trotter Borden and they had one son and one daughter together. She then married Richard Earl "Dick" DeGreene on February 17, 1981, in Fort Bend County, Texas. She died on April 1, 1993, in Alexandria, Louisiana, at the age of 72.

If there are two living children, then this photograph belongs to them.

Below are two high school yearbook portraits of Dorothy Denman.

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Area 51 and a Half
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Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you!
This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

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Enhancement - Looking for Lost Details

For some, an old photograph loses its charm when "restored" to modern day clarity with the yellowing and fading corrected. Some photographs however, benefit greatly from just a nudge of enhancement.

An improved contrast or the reversal of the yellowing brings out details that otherwise would have been missed and lost forever.

To please both camps of those who rescue old photographs, here are both the originals and the enhanced of just a few of the latest additions to Lost Gallery.

Again, there are some really good examples this month, where a little boost made a great difference. As always, little or nothing has been "repaired" but just enhanced a bit.

There is a nice video about this one HERE.

This one especially benefited from a bit of enhancement.

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Bassingbourn 1944
Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.

Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! This is a collection of photographs that usually disappeared on the way home from the photo processing shop.

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Sepia Saturday!

All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

THE KIDS
It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

What's going on HERE?

"What are they doing?"