I created my 8th animation, my first animated GIF, to enter the Digital Public Library of America‘s international October 2016 GIF ME UP competition. The image I chose to manipulate is titled barefoot pose, a photo from around 1910 which I thought lends itself quite well to be animated. I love looking at old images, trying to imagine the photo in colour, what life would have been like back then, how the photo might have come about, and of course who the people in the pictures might have been. I can imagine the chap in this picture would have had a good sense of humour and wouldn’t have minded this adaptation. I used Photoshop Elements and Keynote to create the GIF.
