Its a new one on me!
Its not often that you come across a picture which you took over 45 years ago you've never seen in any form. This is one such example from my own collection. As many of us will recall from the days of film photography, it was pot luck whether your first and last photo on a film 'came out'. If you were very lucky on the day, one or the other might, but often you'd get a negative with an orange serial number etched across it which many a processor declined to print. To mitigate against potential disaster I would often photograph (cringe) something I considered unimportant at the time such as people, scenery lightweight PSVs or the floor.
Moving to the present day, and I know many people treat it with scepticism, but we now have magic AI programs which can do surprising things providing results are vettet before sharing with the wider world.
Whilst this image isn't perfect, giving credit where credit is due, it had an orange vertical band and serial numbers almost obliterating the right hand quarter of the view. Other than for a little tidying up I'd do to any elderly scan, one press of a button sorted it.
To the bus. Its a Willowbrook bodied Ford R192 (a type I now wish I'd photographed greater numbers of). BTG 577J had been new to Brewers of Caerau (South Wales) in November of 1970 where it joined a predominantly AEC fleet. I took the photo on Maesteg bus station circa 1980.
Its a new one on me!
Its not often that you come across a picture which you took over 45 years ago you've never seen in any form. This is one such example from my own collection. As many of us will recall from the days of film photography, it was pot luck whether your first and last photo on a film 'came out'. If you were very lucky on the day, one or the other might, but often you'd get a negative with an orange serial number etched across it which many a processor declined to print. To mitigate against potential disaster I would often photograph (cringe) something I considered unimportant at the time such as people, scenery lightweight PSVs or the floor.
Moving to the present day, and I know many people treat it with scepticism, but we now have magic AI programs which can do surprising things providing results are vettet before sharing with the wider world.
Whilst this image isn't perfect, giving credit where credit is due, it had an orange vertical band and serial numbers almost obliterating the right hand quarter of the view. Other than for a little tidying up I'd do to any elderly scan, one press of a button sorted it.
To the bus. Its a Willowbrook bodied Ford R192 (a type I now wish I'd photographed greater numbers of). BTG 577J had been new to Brewers of Caerau (South Wales) in November of 1970 where it joined a predominantly AEC fleet. I took the photo on Maesteg bus station circa 1980.