Give an hour, get an hour back!
Timebanking is a way of spending one hour of time helping someone out and earning one time credit in return. This can be spent on receiving an hour of someone else’s time. You could learn something new, share a skill you have like cooking or speaking a language, or you could just have a chat.
Everyone has skills, knowledge and abilities to offer which could benefit someone.
Timebanking can turn strangers into friends. As in all friendships, you must be ready to give and receive. The timebank works best when people give and receive time.
Timebanking is not volunteering or charity. Every member can offer their skills, abilities and knowledge to help others, and people choose how much time they want to give and when.
Timebanking is not a professional service and should not be used as a substitute for paid professional services, as people do things to the best of their ability.
Everyone’s time is valued equally and the currency will always be an hour for an hour.
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A Photographic Exchange
Riboleau studios and gardens are Ryde Timebank members and our wonderful volunteers and the work they have done in our garden is a testament to how this wonderful service can make a difference.
In return we offer various services, one of which was photography. We were contacted by a Timebank member who asked if we could do anything with a postcard he has, from 1904 and depicts a seated lady with her two dogs. The lady is Nora Florence Clark 1882 – 1961 at Clairemont, West Street, Ryde with ‘Gilly’ and ‘Wiah’ the two dogs. The postcard is very faded and her eye is completely scratched out. After a high resolution scan I was able to get much more detail revealed. Then I reconstructed an eye to replace the one that was missing. I initially thought that the there was a shadow across the wall, this would have been a bit of an error for a professional photographer and it became apparent that this was caused by something having been placed on top of the postcard. I worked on removing dust, scratches and other marks and used some digital interpretations of darkroom techniques called dodging and burning to even out the tones and minimise the ‘shadow’. It would have been relatively easy to use A.I. to achieve a restoration, but they tend to look a little over processed and ‘false’ and I wanted to preserve the look and feel of this as photograph taken over one hundred and twenty years ago.
I decided as a little bonus, to print and frame the finished work. The resolution was good enough to print at A2 and the final print along with the postcard are shown below.
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