James L Blilie Photos: His Family: 1970s

James Louis Blilie, my father

Pictures of My Family Growing Up

1970s

For family members: If you want copies of these scans, please contact me.

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Index to James L. Blilie Photos

Family

James Louis Blilie's Life

Family 1950s

Family 1960s

Family 1970s

Family 1980s

Family 1990s

Family 2000s

Air Force

B-24s In Fight 1944

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Arctic Days

Japan 1952-1953

Korea and the Philippines 1952-53

Moses Lake, 1953-54

Eglin AFB, Florida, 1955-58

Various

Misc. 1940s and 1950s Photos

Canoe Country, August 1949

The photos indexed on this page are ones of or taken by my father, James L. Blilie (16-Nov-1923 to

26-Mar-2010). He was always interested in art and did a lot of it: Drawing, painting, and photography.

He must have started into photography in the late 1940s, buying an Argus C3 camera. Later,when

he traveled to Japan and Germany, he bought better cameras: Canon and Leica rangefinders with

various interchangeable lenses and a 6-cm (120/220) Rolleiflex. He did some excellent work and

it's interesting to see his technique and composition improve through time.

These are all scans of slides, prints, and negatives. Some of the originals are quite damaged. Most of

the scans required some restoration in Photoshop. I'm not sure what materials he was using. When

he used Kodachrome, the colors are still well preserved. On other materials, the color has nearly

faded out completely. Here are a couple of examples (click on the thumbnails). (This is quite a bit

of work as you might imagine. Luckily, the software really helps.)

Un-restored

This is typical of the slide films that are not Kodachrome.

Restored by color restoration and various other techniques to bring something of the original image back

Un-restored

Restored

Un-restored

Restored

After he switched to Kodachrome (seems like this happened around the time they got married)

exclusively (or nearly so), the damage and fading ceases. The Kodachrome slides still look

vibrant and beautiful.

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*1970*
Kudzu in Mississippi Top Bottom	Koppers Coke, St. P{aul	Apple River, WI	Apple River, WI	Apple River, WI

Mitchell Lake	Mitchell Lake, making the tent platform	Mitchell Lake, making the tent platform	Mitchell Lake, the tent platform	Princess the puppy

On top of the outhouse	Removing a tree	The foundation trenches for our house: 3516 Nancy Place in Shoreview	The house going up
*1971*
Mitchell Lake -- the trailer Top Bottom	Mitchell Lake	Mitchell Lake	Mitchell Lake	Mitchell Lake

Mitchell Lake fall colors	Mitchell Lake fall colors	The old Model-A on Time Out Trail	Mitchell Lake fall colors	Mitchell Lake fall colors
*1972*
Mitchell Lake Top Bottom	Mitchell Lake	Lake Itasca State Park	Lake Itasca State Park	Goosebery Falls

Duluth Harbor tour	Duluth Harbor tour	Duluth Harbor tour	Duluth Harbor tour	Hibbing open pit iron mine
*1973* Surprisingly: No slides from 1973
Top Bottom
*1974*
My Dad had a long business trip to Vienna Top Bottom	Vienna	Vienna	Vienna	Melk and the Stift Melk

Stift Melk	View from the Stift Melk (the Danube)	Durnstein, the place where Richard the Lion-Hearted was held ransom	Danube valley	Vienna

Vienna	Vienna	Vienna	Vienna	Charlie, after he ran ionto the clothes ;ine in the back yard

Jon, playing chickenman or some such thing	Ready for our trip to Glacier National Park, June 1974	North Dakota Badlands	North Dakota Badlands	Lewiston, Montana: Playing on a big artillery piece (including loading Jon into the breach!)

Eastern Montana	Glacier NP, West Entrance	Our motel at Apgar Village	Hike to Fish Lake	Fish Lake and my Dad's camera pack rig

Hike to Hidden Lake Overlook	At the Hidden Lake Overlook: Top: July 1974 Middle: August 1990 Bottom: August 2006	Hike to Hidden Lake Overlook	Glacier NP	Glacier NP

Snyder Lake	St. Mary Lake	St. Mary Lake	St. Mary Falls	St. Mary Falls

Glacier NP	Glacier NP, bear grass	Glacier NP	Glacier NP	Glacier NP

Glacier NP	Canadian Border	Mitchell Lake (bottom: me with Warren and Rodney Herman)	Me and Larry, Mitchell Lake	Mitchell Lake
*1975*
Boat races, Shoreview Top Bottom	One of my many go-karts	Julie with home-grown tomatoes	Julie with home-grown tomatoes	Me on the big swing, Mitchell Lake

Mitchell Lake	Mitchell Lake	Me and a snow dragon	Me and a snow dragon
*1976*
Mitchell Lake -- me and Jon fishing from the dock Top Bottom	Mitchell Lake -- trying to pull a stump	Mitchell Lake popple lumber	Julie and Larry	Mitchell Lake fall color

Mitchell Lake fall color	Mitchell Lake	My Dad had a long business trip to Italy in the fall of 1976: Florence	Genoa -- the view from his hotel room	Pisa

Pisa	Near Porto Fino	Porto Fino	Porto Fino	Porto Fino

November 1976 - Mitchell Lake cabin	November 1976 - Mitchell Lake cabin
*1977*
Mitchell Lake Top Bottom	Julie's confirmation day	Putting siding on the cabin	Putting siding on the cabin	The trench to the cabin from the septic tank

A 5-pound bowfin I caught in Mitchell Lake	Rod Herman's sailboat on Mitchell Lake	Rod Herman's sailboat on Mitchell Lake, with Julie on board
*1978*
Me with a large barrage kite Top Bottom	Shoreview	Shoreview	Shoreview	Kudzu, MIssissippi, a trip through the South

Natchez MS	Gulfarium, Destin, FL	Gulfarium, Destin, FL	Gulfarium, Destin, FL	Hotel pool, Destin

Hotel pool, Destin	Hotel pool, Destin
*1979*
Heavy snow, January 1979 Top Bottom	Heavy snow, January 1979	Heavy snow, January 1979	Heavy snow, January 1979	Larry

Jon	My High School graduation day		Mitchell Lake Road at River Lane