Happy Mother's Day to those that still have their mother's around to greet and spoil today. My mother passed in 2003 and is but ...

Happy Mother's Day to those that still have their mother's around to greet and spoil today. My mother passed in 2003 and is but a memory. She would have been elegant at 88 today.
Long before coloring apps for old photos came along this 1950's studio portrait of my mother was hand-tinted. Made to pose like one of Fernando Amorsolo's maidens, garbed in Balintawak and holding a palayok.Unfortunately both photographer and studio were ignorant of Amorsolo's iconic backlighting that captured and ...