Back when I first started abandonedrails.com (and as I have mentioned on here before), I didn't have a lot of photographs to post, save for the ones taken with my Nikon point-and-shoot film camera.  So in order to get some immediate online content to the site, I scanned in the small collection of prints I had and hastily uploaded them to the website.  These pictures are still there today -- some of them can even by noted by the presense of the "date" in the lower right-hand corner.

With over 500 digital pictures now occupying the site, the scanned pictures are mightily outnumbered. And compared to the digital pictures, the scanned pictures weren't as eye-catching with muted colors and hazy outlines. Ironically, the most-viewed picture on the site, the Galveston Switcher, is a scanned picture.

I decided that since that particular picture was the most popular on the site, I should re-scan it from the original print, and perhaps touch it up a bit.  So I went back through my albums and found it, along with another picture of it that I had forgotten about.

I scanned them both in, cropped them, and applied a little unsharp mask to them to clear them up.  I also fiddled with the colors (contrast and saturation) in order to bring out the natural coloring of the scene.  The result is more pleasing then before, and both enhanced pictures are now on the site.  Since none of the other scanned images were "enhanced", I figured now would be a good time to do them (there are only about 20 or so).

So if you look closely enough, you might be able to tell that the scanned images are cleaner and more colorful.