This is a story from a long time ago about the time I ruined a photograph and it made me sad! One day I went to visit my Mammaw. Looking back on this day, I’m not sure why my Mammaw was having me clean house but either way, I was helping her clean house. I remember her handing me the Windex and asking me to clean the glass and to dust.
There was a round framed picture with my Aunt Janie in it. If I remember correctly, it was the photograph of us at the Buccaneers game in our Bucs football gear. She is a huge fan! Either way, I remember spraying the Windex to clean the glass. This is when it happened...Windex must have gotten behind the glass because the photograph started to bleed. I remember the colors starting to run and the mixture of orange and some of the red in the photograph promptly made the photograph turn a dark reddish orange. I was devastated. I was supposed to be making things pretty and clean and instead I ruined the photograph. I don’t even think I told my Mammaw because I was so ashamed.
Since then, I have been careful with pictures. If I clean glass on a framed image, I will take apart the entire frame, glass, and image to clean the glass. Then I leave an extra day to let the glass dry. This moment made a huge impact on me and I really make sure I handle the memories with care because I don’t want anything to happen to them.
With this being said, there was the one other time I wasn’t as safe with an image as I normally am with them. I had made flyers through my photo lab which I had in frames and placed inside vet offices for promotional purposes. In a haste one day, I took a box out of my truck with the promo image in it and some pamphlet holders and placed it on the side of my house. I was only supposed to leave it there for a moment when I got sidetracked. Needless to say, it rained and the promotional photo flyer got soaked! However to my surprise the image stayed in tack! This moment made me very proud of my work, knowing if an image were to get wet, the print would hold up even in the rain. The image only beveled. Now, I wouldn’t suggest drenching your images, however, you can rest assured your prints are made up of high quality paper which will keep your memories together in some rough conditions.
This is a cell image of the promo ad I left in the rain. You can see the image stayed in tack and it is even hard to see how it only beveled from the incident.
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