Seesawing in ’64

I hope this works out.  I’m trying a new feature on the MyHeritage website that I’m a member of.  I use their software for sharpening lots of my photos and I’ve also used it a few times to animate old photos.  Their new feature is called LiveMemory and it creates a short video from any old photo that you download to the site.  I’ve seen some that look interesting but have not been successful with it yet.

I’ve only tried it on the photo of the Patureau brothers before they were doctors in 1881.  But that was a formal setting, so there really wasn’t any movement involved that could be acted on.  So it was rather boring.  It made me look through my old photos to see if there was one that showed some movement involved.  That’s kind of tricky, though.  The most common thing you do in photos is to stay still.  There aren’t that many photos showing people in action.  Oh, wait, I just thought of a good one that I hadn’t thought of before.  That’s the one I should have tried.  I even posted the photo in one of my blog posts.  It’s a photo of my grandfather and his friends playing basketball.  

But it’s too late.  Way too late.  I’m already two days behind on starting this post.  How did I forget about writing this on Thursday?  Christmas week can be so busy.  I was actually working on a photo during that time, but didn’t think that I would ever use it for a blog post.  I had also ruled it out for the LiveMemory as well.  I’m not really sure what reason I had at the time.  It wasn’t old enough?  It’s only 60 years old.  Also the photo only features me and my two siblings who are closest to me in age.  But it’s such a great old photo and I cleaned it up really nicely.  It’s never looked so good.  I’m sure you’ll just love it.

I downloaded the photo to be processed, and it takes a while before they email the results.  It’s probably on its way now.  Oh, yes, there it is now!  Can’t wait to see what it looks like.  Maybe you’ll be able to see.

I can’t stop laughing!  I was hoping to see Jamie and Al moving up and down as they seesawed on the concrete strip.  Maybe the puppies would play with me on the wagon.  Wouldn’t that be fun?!  What I got was a hilarious fail!  Jamie and Al are moving up and down and the puppy moved, but not in the way I had hoped.  See for yourself.

 

I hope you enjoy the original photo.