God I bloody hate scanning!!

I’m in the middle of a self inflicted horror story of photo scanning having decided to scan in the family’s entire photo collection, and collate, order and restore them as I go. Bizarrely my virtually brand new scanner has proved incredibly disappointing in terms of quality and I’ve had to resort to using my ten-year-old Epson multifunction with, I think, fantastic results. I know obsessives would find flaws with the scan quality and my subsequent touching up (of the photos that is) but I’m only ever planning on storing them at full-res on my Flickr for posterity so I’m more than happy with them for now. I’m loving finding the very old and incredibly embarrassing photos though, and the one above is quite a tame example compared with several of the scarier ones. My Flickr privacy settings had better hold up!