Gary has been working hard on our family photos lately. He has been adding different effects, cleaning up the backgrounds, optimising the area used and the quality (where he can). This has taken many hours of work and he has started an online photo album called Floralscape where he shows a small portion of what he has done.
The following photo of Barry has been given a cartoon effect and two people where removed. It came up so well that we had it enlarged and framed. It looks great in the wooden frame and everyone who sees it, comments on how good it looks and how different it is.
And whilst the quality of the next photo isn’t the greatest, I love the photo itself because this is exactly how I saw Barry every day. Happy! Gary took this still from a documentary Barry made for a school project. The video was entitled “Kuni” and if you want to see a series of stills from the video just follow the link (I love looking at these as I can almost see him moving about and laughing – much like the photos in the Harry Potter movies).
He was a fine-looking lad, Karen.
We’re thinking about you.
I just wanted to let you know that I was looking for something tonight, in my own battle for understanding, still existing five years later, and I found your blog and found more than I ever imagined. My friend killed himself years ago and I was not close with his family so much of what I’ve wanted to know I never could find out. I found so much here. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Helen.
Dylan, thank you for taking the time to comment. When someone tells me that I’ve helped them, it spurs me to keep going. Understanding is a huge thing. I’m still finding my way, but I’m glad that you’ve made it through the darkness and I’m sorry that you lost your friend.
Karen, I kept checking back as the photos would not load on my screen. Finally they have. Barry was a very handsome young man. I love the cartoon picture. What an original idea.
Thank you, Rosepetal. Barry was handsome in many ways other than looks too. I have always been proud of him.
I had similar problems with the photos and ended up uploading them to Flickr to solve the problem. Gary was disappointed, but he is busy moving his albums to Flickr too.
hey barry, hope you looking afta urself, man we miss you soooo much it doesnt feel right without you around bro…. just listen to kingston town now bro everytime i hear it, it makes me think of u brother….one day man we will all be back together just like old days at school… memba the first day of school.. you didnt no any1 and i came up2 u and introduced my self to you… thats when our friendship took off. some of the funniest times i had at school were with you…. take care bro miss u everyday champ….
Thank you for stopping by, Dave and Josh. There are so many songs that remind me of Barry. Sometimes I can listen to them and smile, other times they make me cry. I hope you are both doing OK.
im so sorry to hear of your loss, i went to school with barry but moved away and hav only jus heard of your loss im so sorry he was such a beautiful person always put a smile on everyones face… it really is a terrible loss… sorry again.. you hav done a fantastic job on the site stick in there hopefully in time it will get easier…