I’ve been actively photographing as a hobbyist since my undergraduate years at MIT in the late 1960’s. From the early 1970’s to the late 1990’s, my career involved worldwide travel, enabling me to make photographs throughout Europe, Asia, and Israel. 

While landscape photography remains my primary focus, photography is also about storytelling. Here, I have chosen to exhibit images I made outside the United States. During my journeys, I was often able to capture slices of local life—ordinary people doing everyday things in their lived environment—and sometimes in places that will be familiar to many of you.

A selection of these photos were on display at the gallery at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Naperville, IL during March and April 2026.

Scroll down below the gallery to read about the image restoration process.

Ordinary People

About the image restoration process…

All the images on display here predate digital photography. They were recorded on film—Kodachrome and Ektachrome
35mm slides—many of which are now more than fifty years old, and if left alone would eventually deteriorate into uselessness.
Modern digital photo editing tools, including AI, provide the opportunity to bring images that would otherwise be lost
back to life.

For each image here, I digitized the original 35mm slide using a 60mm macro lens and Nikon ES-2 film adapter
mounted on a Nikon D850 DLSR, resulting in a 30 to 50Mbyte aw digital file. Then, I used Adobe Lightroom to catalog the
files, and Photoshop 2026 to restore, color-correct, and refine each image to my artistic vision.
I’ve proofed and printed the images on an Epson SureColor P900 printer on either Epson Premium or Moab Lasal glossy
paper. They’re mounted on foam core stock with an acid-free mat, which I’ve cut myself.

If you’re interested in restoring old film images—slides, negatives, or prints—contact me at craigpynn@gmail.com