PattyHankins

CJ and #Plushtodon helped set up the lights this morning

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Henry would like to wish everyone a Happy Caturday

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A few photos by @lawrencesview@mastodon.social from #NoKings at #NIH in #Bethesda #Maryland

I was having too much fun protesting to bring my camera

Three photos of my great grandmother - Mary Jane Kellam. Probably all taken in the early-mid-1890s. One was taken in Factoryville, Pennsylvania. The other two were probably taken in either NY or PA.

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/mary-jane-kellam-c-1890s.html

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Moonlight Dreams

Model: Ivory Flame

Photographed remotely from England to Maryland

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From a remote photo session US to Netherlands with Zoi Morgan of Dreaming of Models.

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My great grandmother, Mary Jane Kellam. Likely taken in 1875-1876 (she was born in Sept 1874)

Photo taken by at the Vail Brothers' Studio in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/mary-jane-kellam-c-1875-1876.html

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My great great grandfather - John Ross Kellam - photo likely taken about 1863-1864 in New York City based on the style of the carte de viste and info I could find about the photographer

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/.../john-ross-kellam.html

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Haley McKey

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I was able to create an image using Google Gemini 3/Nano Banana that helps me know what my great great great grandfather John Call may have looked like. What I had to begin with was a small scan of a photo copy of an albumen print.

I wrote about how I did it on my substack at https://pattyhankins.substack.com/p/john-call-meets-nano-banana

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Keira Grant

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Zoë Celesta West

Taken during yesterday's photo session. My editing challenge was choosing which of the amazing photos I took to edit first! Thanks Zoe!

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Gem tintype (1 1/4 X 1 3/4 inches) of my great-great grandmother Frances Maria Shafer (1846-1924). Likely from the 1860s or 1870s.

And you'll be glad to know - her twin brother was named Francis Marion Shafer. Because of course he was 🤣

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/frances-maria-shafer.html

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Frank Marion Kellam - my great grandmother's brother. Photos likely from the late 1880s, mid 1890s and before 1911

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/frank-marion-kellam.html

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My grandfather, Francis William Hankins, and his parents, William Lucas Hankins and Mary Jane Kellam. Photo likely taken in 1898 (he was born in Sept 1897) in Auburn, New York

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/william-lucas-hankins-family-c-1898.html

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This looks like a great event from The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society - NYG&B - just registered. Among my ancestors & relatives I've got farmers, railroad workers, ministers, blacksmiths and a vaudeville performer - so looking forward to so many sessions.

https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/events/work-craft-and-calling-understanding-ancestral-occupations

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My great grandfather William Lucas Hankins. Likely taken 1893-1894 in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York

https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/william-lucas-hankins-c-1893-1894.html

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I generally don't like most AI transformations of historic photos, especially into videos. But I am impressed with how Julianne Kost suggests using AI to help create prompts for use in Firefly. Kost clearly tells Firefly what to do, what to change, and what NOT to change.

https://jkost.com/blog/2026/03/introduction-to-prompting-in-adobe-firefly.html

#Genealogy #AI #Photography