Ron Manson, Photographer

Enhancing old photographs has become easier with recent developments in digital photography. Given that truth, it still takes effort from other sources to accomplish. The process involves the original photographer’s work, the group posts of the original online images and digital photographic enhancements.

I became interested in restoring my hometown Piqua historic photographs after coming across online posts of these two groups:

“Piqua History 2.0”
“You know you are from Piqua when”.”

I used my knowledge of digital photography to enhance the photos and share them with the groups. I have also included some clippings I had saved from my days at THE PIQUA DAILY CALL.

The following comments from the posts inspired me to continue to look for historic images online and enhancing them with the intent of sharing them online.

“Turning these into color is magical for my eyes!”
“These are great Ron”
“Your enhancement brings it to life!”
“That’s the best picture of any locks I’ve ever seen…”

I collected many of the images posted online and included them in this magazine. I hope others will enjoy seeing them as much as I have producing them.