This picture is approximately 20 years old (at the very least – could be older) it is a hair shot of my model from an Avant-garde hair styling competition I was in.

I have an album of old photos from years ago of hair shows and competitions that I competed in.
This picture and hair- do was way ahead of it’s time.

It’s one of the old photos that I would never want to lose.

I used my iPhone to take a picture of it and uploaded it to my computer. I was able to share it with my friends on Facebook.
My friends in the hair styling industry loved it, and remembered it well!
It brought back great memories and we all shared some old and new photos of hair competitions, and it was fun to chat about ‘the good old days’

While the quality of the photo isn’t the greatest mainly because back then we simply didn’t have the great quality cameras that we have today – I was still able to take a pretty good picture of the picture.

I now have this, and most all of them saved to my computer and phone for viewing and sharing.

You can do this with anything that you want to save and preserve in the event that you might lose an album or two for some reason.

Albums are great to have with our old photos, and I hope I never lose them. But, just in case; now I have them all saved in this way!

This was another gem that I didn’t want to ever lose, among many other ‘old’ hair pics from way back when.
This was an Avant- garde hair competition. I was nominated as one of the top 5 hair stylists across Canada in the Avant-garde category.

The model was shot under black light for added effect…for back then that was way ahead of its time as well.

It’s fun to look through them once in a while without having to pull out a bunch of photo albums. I still have the albums and hope I always will…
I have heard countless times however where people have had all of their photos lost or destroyed.
In the event that that might and could happen to me, now I have all of mine in digital online form!

I could easily touch up this picture and remove a few unsightly hairs with a photo editing program and make this hairstyle look ‘cleaner’ and make the workmanship of the hair style look better by than it really was…I chose not to…this is original work and how the style turned out.

Editing it to make it look better in my opinion would be ‘cheating’ – it wouldn’t be the same.

This was from the Canadian Hairstylist of the year awards Avant- garde category.
It was my ‘twist’ on the bee hive hair do.

It’s saved and preserved in it’s original state.

I do like to look at it and ‘see’ my mistakes in the hair style, and it’s a great training tool to show other hair stylists where and what they need to focus on when competing…exactly where and in what areas they need to ‘clean up’ stray hairs.

This was from the early 80’s as well…an oldy but goldy!

During one of my moves we lost an entire box of awards and trophies.
We took some photographs of some of our awards one day.

I found the picture in another shoebox of old photos…
While my trophies are long gone ~ I still had the picture of some of them.
This was taken in the early 80’s

I can now view them or use them online…I am so glad I found the picture!
(not every trophy in this particular picture is mine, some belonged to my partner)

By doing this I am able to share and view them on my computer and on social media sites.

Ah, back in ‘the day’

Great idea to take pictures of special things and have them turn out ‘OK.’

These are a few more awards and trophies that were unfortunately lost in a move.

This was taken in the late 80’s in one of my salons.
I had the picture in that shoebox of photos, and took a picture of it.

Granted it wasn’t a great photograph in the first place by no means and it was taken with a very inexpensive camera. (I think it was a Kodak instant disposable camera that cost me about 15.00!)

Still I am glad I had it and found it.

I now have a hair folder on my computer which means that I will always have it, even if I lose the shoebox or album!

For it’s day this was another hair cut that was ahead of it’s time. I wanted to save it as well even though it was a damaged photo…it was in a shoe box filled with photos that weren’t stored properly.

Even though it was damaged and old, it still is a very special picture of a very special competition. It was for the big L’Oreal Canadian Championship hair competition…
We had several done in black and white back then…

The haircut wasn’t executed nearly as well as I could do now, it was my second hair competition.
We did win with it so it’s a great memory!

Taking pictures of your originals helps hang onto those memories when they are uploaded to a folder on your computer or uploaded to social media sharing sites.
The photos are viewed more easily and frequently on your computer than if they were in a shoe box or album.

Back in the day – 1980 Winnipeg held a Fantasy Hair competition.

This was a picture of our win! It was way ahead of it’s time for the 80’s…and although the award and trophy is long gone (lost in a move) I was glad to have this picture.
The picture wasn’t taken by a professional photographer – I’m sure you can tell! It was taken with another cheap camera…
In fact I didn’t even take it…someone took it and later dropped it off at the salon.

I took a photo of the picture…again…I now have it forever…

No worries if I do lose the actual photo, although I hope that never happens.
I like physical photos…But, I also like to be able to view and share them online.

And Yes, it’s all real hair…hours of work!

This too was from the late 80’s it was a Hawaiian Fantasy Competition.
It’s distorted from enlarging the photo; I do still have it in its original size.

I wanted to throw in a big picture to show you that you can indeed enlarge them if you want…

The picture quality is lost when you enlarge them.
I didn’t do anything to make the picture ‘clearer’ with any editing programs.

You certainly can do that…

I do prefer to leave them as is in their original state though.

This was a great hair competition, a lot of fun, and a fantastic memory!

This is the original size of the photo.
The picture above is this size when not enlarged.

It took days to get the color placement just right to achieve the look of the ocean, brown on the palm tree base and the green tops of the palm trees.

It was a huge hit at this competition, and work that I was very proud of…
I wouldn’t want to lose pictures like this.

The picture itself was taken with a very inexpensive camera. And we’re talking years and years ago!
I was still able to get a pretty good picture of the picture.

(In case you were wondering, yes, we did win first place)

Hours of work went into this creation. How could I not take a picture of a picture?
The model was getting tired and started shaking her head at it all. (In a good way!)

I posted this into my Facebook album. It was a great ‘share’
These are pictures that I have in my hair album, it’s nice to be able to share them online and to know that I have these now online and in my computer!

These are special times from the days where we didn’t have today’s technology or the great cameras available to us today.

The image is exactly preserved as it is in it’s physical form.

This photo was from the late 70’s…and was taken from a distance. Again with a very inexpensive camera so the picture quality was poor in the first place.

It’s unfortunate that I don’t have a close up of it…still, I.m glad I have at least this one!
I never took photo’s of my work – with all of the tension and excitement of competing and making sure you had all of your tools and products, a camera just wasn’t on the list of priorities.

We didn’t have cell phones with cameras back then and purchasing a good camera wasn’t important…I did rely on others or professional photographers to take pictures and send them…more often than not – that didn’t happen.

It’s great that I have at least one of these! AND that I was able to take a picture of it too, to have and share!

This photo was already slightly damaged because I didn’t have it in an album. It was unprotected in my wallet for years, and then went into a drawer as I updated my wallet photo.

I cam across it and didn’t ever want to lose it either. Plus it was fun to post it on my kids Facebook walls!

The little one had cut her own bangs and I managed to straighten them up as best as I could. What a cutey!
It’s an adorable picture of my 3 little beautiful babies…again a picture that I never want to lose. Now that I posted and shared it with them, they too will have it forever!

So, not the greatest quality of a photo… however, the point is to have them in another format.
You can scan your photos and upload them that way – I found that scanning them made the picture look grainy…taking a picture of the original photo seemed to work better than scanning it.

You can try either one, and once uploaded you could always adjust things lie ‘red eye’ and crop them. I chose to leave the photos exactly as they were, and are. No touching up, cropping or anything.
Simply my preference…you can do whatever you want in saving or editing your photos.

This is one great way of having and storing your photos besides in an album.

This is a picture of a seasonal hockey schedule. It was the last season the the Winnipeg Jets Hockey team were playing in the NHL.

That’s my son in the middle of the picture of the schedule waving with his dad holding up that ‘Winnipeg Jets’ flag!
Of course this is special in so many ways for so many reasons.

It’s a treasure.

I did expand the size of it because it was a pocket schedule, so it was small- wallet size.

Naturally there is distortion and its not a great picture…far from it. However, it’s the point that I have it and always will have it in its physical form and now online.

I do have it on my Facebook (not blown up like this) it is as well as on my son’s wall. He is in his 30’s now and he appreciated that I posted it…sometimes we forget about these old treasures…so it’s nice to ‘resurrect them’ and share them!

While we’re on the topic of hockey!

We sent Teemu Selanne of the Winnipeg Jets hockey team 54 roses the day after he broke the record of the most goals scored by a rookie in a season…Teemu was a hair client, and eventually became good friends of the family.

We sent the roses to his home, and his wife took this picture and brought it into the salon.
A lot of the Jets were clients and did give us autographed pictures to hang in the salon or to give to our son (and daughters)

This one was and is special in so many ways.

A great memory of that game that we attended, and a great memory of a good friend who accomplished something spectacular!

This was back in the early 90’s, and I don’t know what kind of camera was used to take the picture. This looks equally the same as it does in its physical form.

This is another treasure…it was a very small photo of our babysitter and our 3 kids…

The picture is exactly the same ‘quality’ as in it’s physical form.

I haven’t cropped it or have done anything to it whatsoever.
Again, something I was able to share online with the babysitter who lives in another part of the world, but someone who I reconnected with on Facebook.
I shared the photo there with her…

It was a great conversation of great memories…we absolutely loved this girl and it’s the only pic we have of her with our children.
Another treasure.

This is a full page news article about a hair competition I competed in where I won first place in women’s hair cut and style and first place in men’s cut and style.

I’ll toot my own horn here! I had a perfect score in both categories- which rarely happens! So I also won the Mayor’s trophy; you can only win the Mayor’s with perfect scores across the board from all judges.

(Yes, hair competitions is SERIOUS business!)

I took this picture of the newspaper article. Naturally the newspaper had yellowed and aged over time…but here I have it now…it isn’t going to get anymore damaged, nor will it age anymore than it already has!

And I can view it in large to read it’s content by zooming in…

A great way to keep and preserve something special…and a great way to share with others.

Let the ‘Remember when?’ conversations begin…

We all have them…special pictures from long ago…pictures of our children perhaps, school class photos…

Although I did get a glare on this photo, I still don’t mind it. I tried several lighting…without flash, closing blinds and more experimenting…I simply couldn’t get it without the glare as the actual picture had a shine to it already.

This picture is of my son when he played hockey at our near by community club…
It’s a little treasure as well.

For me personally I don’t even mind that it isn’t perfect!
It’s the picture of him that I wanted to save.

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