Pappou-Palooza

My Dad had this 2.5 inch by 1.5 inch snapshot of his father (my grandfather, or Pappou in Greek) in his wallet for years. Years ago I took a crack at cleaning it up a little.

Scanning the original at 1200 dpi, playing with the levels and doing some strategic clean up of the most distracting blemishes I was able to get the above as an 8 x 10. My grandfather passed away long before I was born. I feel a little more connected to him having spent the time cleaning up his photo.