Last week, I posted about the bicentennial year of 1976. Included in that post was my remembering of attending the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. That was the convention where President Gerald Ford and former Governor Ronald Reagan went head-to-head. Ford eventually won the GOP nomination.
Included in the post was this photo that I took of Ronald and Nancy Reagan arriving at the Hilton Plaza Inn for a meeting during the convention:
As you can see, it is a bit faded from age.
J. D. Lees, who published G-FAN magazine, saw the post and did some restoration work on the photo and sent the final result. He did a great job on it. It looks as if I took the photo more recently rather than 50 years ago.
Here's the photo after restoration:
Saw the pic of RR on your website and couldn't resist "improving" it (hope you agree). I'm far from an expert on photo editing, but I use a free software called GIMP that is available for download if you want it. (I switched years ago when Adobe started charging a monthly fee to use Photoshop.) My abilities are very limited, but if you copy a picture to your clipboard, then click on "File" in GIMP, there's an option "Create." Click on that and you can import the image from your clipboard as one of the options. That's how I captured the RR photo. Then you click on "Colors" and down a ways is "Auto." Click on that and choose "White balance." That's the only thing I did to your photo. The result is attached.
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