This is Ruby (my latest grandniece), born to Jerel, 1st granddaughter of sis Shirley Smith. Born approximately late Sep 2008 in Seatle WA. Sorry, that is all I know.

OK, have been busy working on family videos that were taken during my trip around the USA. My siblings took the videos, and I processed / condensed them to 2 family videos, see below.

This project took several 10s of hours, my old computer (a MAC of course) which is only about 2 yrs old, was not up to the challenge. The videos were taken with a small modern digital camera under less than ideal lighting conditions, most were very dark. After about 20 hrs using the old MAC, had not even completed correcting for the poor lighting on one video, and had 11 to process. I broke down and bought a new MAC.

Wow, it is fast, in about 2 hrs corrected the one video, the others took less that 1 hr each. Then several hours were spent editing about 35 minutes of videos and producing the 2 family videos for a total of 8 minutes. The videos that were corrected for poor lighting are a bit grainy. Improving for noise is a major project, later will see if I can do it.

The family Photos and Videos from my USA trip:

Photos:

The Banda’s at Dorothy’s

Dinner w/Shirley

Family Dinner (Reunion)

Reunion at Tence’s

Family at Frans’s

Family at Norine’s

Dinner w/Joyce

Videos:

Family at Dorothy’s

Family in Atlanta

And now am free to work on my next project.