The family has been going through boxes of photos and reminiscing. We found the weirdest little thing: a keychain photo viewfinder souvenir thingum from a vacation resort. It’s like a telescope with a lens on one end, and a frosted light filtering cap on the other end with a slide/picture inside. You hold it up to one eye, point it at a light source and get a single slide slideshow.

The image inside this silly box is AMAZING. I can’t describe how well it captures the things I loved about her.

I asked my pal Nina how I could get it out of the viewfinder thingum and into the world. She suggested Urban Digital Color. I described the thingum on the phone to the proprietor Griff, who told me to bring it by to see what could be done. I thought it would be impossible to open. Then I thought the positive would be glued down or otherwise unusable.

It’s all working out. He said the positive was in good shape and he could easily scan it at a resolution that would allow me to print it very large.

Yay.

I’ll put it up when I get it back. So excited.