Good photo but looks slightly blue.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/2/2012 3:29 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
> Tina, your scanning project has inspired me to go back and look at a few
> old scans from the 1980's. Most are still slides but I did scan a few
> but never processed them. I think these were taken with my original OM1
> and 28/3.5. A very nice travel kit. Anyway I did a quick and dirty job
> with Faststone on this one which I had previously scanned with my old HP
> 2400dpi scanner. Subject is the family of Carlos, a boy we were
> supporting through CCF. No HPI at that time. The village was a short
> collectivo ride from Antigua and then another couple km to the village.
> Name escapes me. The woman on the right is the school director and our
> interpreter, Quiche>>Spanish (not actually sure what language the family
> spoke but guessing a dialect of Quiche) I only vaguely remember that
> young couple in the back ;) Photo taken in the family compound in the
> rabanos patch, grown to supplement their income. We later visited the
> family maize field a km or two outside the village where Carlos and his
> father worked. Eventually Carlos dropped out of the program to work
> full time to help support the family. Not sure what happened to them.
> This was at the height of the civil war and this area was a hot bed of
> the revolt. Note my olive colored tee shirt. This caused us to be taken
> off a collectivo for questioning at a check point. I also had on a pair
> of "military looking" shoes. The kids manning the check point wanted to
> confiscate both articles of clothing. Finally I was able to talk to an
> officer who let us go with the admonition to not let these dangerous
> materials fall into rebel hands.
>
>
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/LatinAmerica/MexCentralAm/family1a.jpg>
>
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