This is the first of a series of posts on photographs I took decades ago, prints that I am only now scanning/digitizing using an Epson scanner and restoring/enhancing with Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5.  I’ll be the first to admit, most of these images are not praiseworthy.  My intent with these “retrospective” posts is to create a personal catalog of and commentary on the photos I captured starting in my teens and up thru my early adulthood.

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In the late summer/early fall of 1991, I participated in an international work/study program in Tokyo.  When the program finished, I spent another couple of months backpacking thru much of China and parts of Thailand.  During my travels, I went thru a lot of film using a Nikon Nuvis 75i, an inexpensive point and shoot that I recently uncovered in a box along with some other cameras used in years past (more on that in a future post).  As I made my way around Asia, I purchased a number of Fuji panoramic disposable cameras, which ended up producing some of my favorite photographs.

Here are a few of my favorite shots from Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing. I am especially fond of the two People’s Army soldiers photo and the panoramic shot of the Chinese flag with honor guard.

And here are several images from Japan, which I converted to black and white in Lightroom 3, giving them a bit of a new twist on life, if not an even more dated appearance.

More analog prints/negatives to digitize and share in the weeks ahead…