1. Enhancing our understanding of history through the manipulation & tagging of digital images Buzz Brown, President Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society Orchard Lake Community Church, Presbyterian Wednesday, February 17, 2010

3. Image Enhancement as a Research Tool Adjusting the brightness and contrast

4. Image Enhancement as a Research Tool Zoom in

5. Image Enhancement as a Research Tool

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7. Image Enhancement as a Research Tool

11. Sailboat Sheila “ In recalling occurrences that memory brings back in connection with my friend, there is one that impressed me very much as a boy. One beautiful Sunday afternoon in summer I chanced to be standing beside one of liveryman’s Duell’s hacks in the rear seat of which was seated one of Pontiac’s first ladies, with her friends. They had stopped in front of the castle to view the lake. My friend had recently launched his first sail boat, the Shelah, on the lake and it sailed by where we stood, parallel with the shore, loaded with island folk who were happily singing. The beauty of the scene enhanced by their singing was enchanting. But after they had passed, imagine my surprise to hear the old lady explain, “Oh, how wicked it is to sail on Sunday!” Young as I was, I wondered how she could think them more wicked than she who had deprived a driver and span of horses of their freedom to enable her to take a pleasure ride on Sunday.” Orchard Lake and its Island, Willis Ward

12. Ward Houseboat

14. Tornado Photos

15. Tornado photos Sweeping across the old DeConick farmland the twister reached down to demolish the home of Bertrice Hallett at 5725 Maple. Hallett, a retired schoolteacher, had lived there since 1929. Next, the funnel smashed into Belle Tire, skeletonizing the structure in an instant before pulverizing Danny’s Marathon while five persons cowered inside. Chunks of these businesses and their interior equipment were then spewed in all directions as lethal missiles. Accompanying the airborne debris were Belle’s “60% sales tires” now winging their way over the intersection like a flock of black Frisbees.

16. Danny’s Marathon

17. 60% sales tires as Frisbees

18. Tornado Photos

19. Detroit Bank & Trust Having crossed to the northeast corner of the intersection, the tornado clobbered the Shell station, picking up a parked, twenty-foot motor home and hurling it upside down through the west wall of the adjacent Detroit Bank & Trust branch.

20. Ponderosa Steak House A short distance to the east the Ponderosa Steak House was jammed with dinner patrons. The manager, Brian Boving, later told reporters, “There were about five seconds warning before the windows blew in.” As everyone dove for cover, one customer remembered, “Glass filled the air like an ice storm.” After the rumbling noise had died away, the patrons timidly got to their feet to discover that none of their number was seriously injured. In fact, only five persons had received minor cuts.

21. Tornado Photos With the cold gray light of dawn on Sunday, March 21, the enormity of the devastation was at last revealed. In the hard-hit subdivisions, hollow-eyed residents picked through the rubble of their homes looking for undamaged possessions (Plate 16). Many had only the clothes on their backs but considered themselves lucky to be alive.

22. Tornado Photos

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28. Automatic Tagging

29. Personal Tagging

30. Social Tagging

31. Location-aware: automatic tagging

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