[jdviole2]

Thank you all for your kind words. I'm sure she would have been proud of all of this (after she got through chewing my butt for it). I started scanning some stuff yesterday. I began with prints themselves and also some color negatives. The quality really varies depending on a lot of stuff. I never had prints made of the negatives. I took one roll at the same time I shot some of the color nudes. The lighting coupled with the characteristics of the color print film resulted in very distorted color. Some of the prints were done on a textured paper and they do not scan very well. (Kind of picks up the texture as a type of grain) I've done what corrections I could and most of them look OK. So todays pictures. The first one was a week after we met. That was in July of 1973. Shot in her backyard. The second is a semi nude. It is pretty blurred because I had to grab the shot quickly. This was a pure candid shot and she REALLY did not want me to take it. From the condition of the bed clothes and her position I'm sure you all are guessing what we had been up to just prior to the photo being taken. All I will say is whatever you are thinking you are probably right. I had forgotten about the last nude. As a prize once Helena won a Kodak instant camera. The were only made for a few years due to lawsuits by the Polaroid company. The quality of the pictures was not great, and they were subject to fading. I wanted to keep the image and without anything like a scanner ended up taking a picture of the picture. So we have a faded copy, of a faded original image of a poorly exposed photo. There is only so much correction that can be done with something like this. I included it for completeness. Both of these two pictures were taken in 1974. One more thing to think about. Also on the unprinted roll of film are pictures of two paintings I did of Helena. (Very very early in my art training they are appallingly bad. I will never put these on the web). However they would have been taken from black and white photos. And they are nudes. So somewhere in my house may well be at least two more nudes of Helena. There is a chance that these were thrown away 30 plus years ago but I will be looking for them.