High school photos

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I've just started scanning all the photos that I have in non-digital form, and just posted all my high school pictures on Facebook, if you'd like to giggle at high school Marjorie.

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I kind of love that fuchsia prom dress, seriously. Very Schiap. (No way would I have been gutsy enough to wear it, though. I was even more anti-pink and anti-showing-leg in high school than I am now.)

Also, the picture of you and Justin at his graduation is super adorable.

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Also also, two things I am jealous of:

-You got to have props in your senior portraits? We were allowed to have "appropriate" necklaces (no shark's teeth or gothy chokers) if we were female and that was it.

-I love the old-film quality of many of these pictures. Alas, my own high school pictures are from exactly that time period where nobody was using film anymore but most digital photos were being shot at like half a megapixel.

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I dont' remember there really being rules. I can't think of anyone else who had a prop, but nobody told me I couldn't.

The one in my yearbook is not this picture, I think; I'm looking at the camera instead of the skull. But the skull's definitely not there.

As for the "old-film quality" (that's more politely phrased than Doug's reaction to these pictures, "Huh.
You are older than me, aren't you.") these are all scans of photos I've had hanging around since they were taken, so they're all scratched and many have unremovable gobs of blue tack on them. I cleaned up the worst of it in Photoshop, but there's not much else that can be done.

The black and white one at the ice cream scarnival is the exception; it's actually a scan of my high school yearbook. I Gaussian blurred and then unsharp masked to un-halftone it. I think it ended up looking pretty cool.

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I wish I could pretend the dress was an edgy fashion statement, rather than the result of the fact that there was only one dress in my size at the local consignment shop.