Papas 'horror' exchange with A-Lister Taylor Swift followed him for 13 years

Ok, let me set the scene. It is November 29, 2012. Taylor Swift is 22 years old.

My daughter Gina is 16. She is a big fan.

Taylor is already one Superstar, but no global icon yet. It is going out Harry Styles. The Red The album was released a month earlier and Taylor was invited to the Arias in Star City in Sydney to carry out the single I knew you were trouble.

Here I enter the story. I am the executive producer of Channel 9 for the Arias. I have access to all areas and at a moment that will follow me for 13 years, I decide to use this force for personal profit.

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My daughter and girlfriend Jaimi are in the audience. Shortly before the show is supposed to start, I have it behind the stage and make a comment for Taylor Swift.

This is mine Super Bowl As a father. This is the individual event that is wiped out all defects as a father and rocket to the parents Hall of Fame.

“Hey, Taylor. Sorry, that's my daughter Gina. Could she only get a short photo?”

Taylor, gracious as always, agrees. Gina and her friend Jaimi take positions on both sides of Tay Tay and then Gina hands over her iPhone 4 in a moment of slow motion horror to take the photo.

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I have never kept an iPhone, let alone a photo with one. I am a Blackberry user. I don't know where to start. Gina clocks my need, opens the camera for me and gives it back. With Gina, Taylor giggles that her father is also the case with technology.

Yes, Taylor Swift is lovable, but she is also very busy. It is about to look at the stage for a very choreographed number. I probably have 30 seconds tops to do this.

Fast sidebar. Here you will find a direct offer from a review of the iPhone 4 from 2011 about the functions of the latest generation camera:

“…. it is a little slow to focus, but it will concentrate. The focusing function is very useful and works well enough for most people who know how to use their iPhone.”

Of course I never read this evaluation. I am not aware of the focus of tap to focus and I'm definitely not “most people who know how to use their iPhone.

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I show and shoot and fire a number of shots, with the conviction that the crowd will win over quality.

Taylor hugs the girls, falls back into their dressing cabin and I give back their cell phone.

I can immediately say that something is wrong. Before I can take a sip from the best father of my world, Gina turns the screen to show me the result of my work.

Gina and Jaimi are in the semi -focus. Taylor Swift, who would one day be so successful that it would affect GDP of the United States, is only a blurring. It cannot be recognized.

Looks more like an alien than an A-Lister. Gina is kind and forgiving like Taylor Swift.

“Don't worry, dad.” However, I'm worried about it. For 13 years.

The next day I google (or asked Jeeves) as if a father tried to find software that relieves the picture. I have a tiny improvement with a tool, but you still couldn't get Taylor Swift out of a line -up with Ozzy Osbourne and Luke Combs.

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I finally find that the picture does not look so bad when you reduce it. So I put it in a 70 mm x 60 mm (2.76 x 2.36 inches), enter a caption on the underside that Taylor Swift identifies and the image is inserted into a Perspex block.

I am done three. One for Gina, one for Jaimi and one for me. I convinced myself that it was not bad. It is a breathtaking act of self -deception.

My copy sits on the sideboard in the living room, so I see it pretty much every day. Over time, I am becoming more and more discouraging over the whole.

Every few years I try out new technologies to improve the picture, but there is simply not enough pixels with which I can work.

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April 2025. I listen to a podcast about AI and all the wonderful things that can do with words and pictures. Pictures. My Taylor Swift photo! Maybe Ai is the answer.

I ask a AI tool about my dilemma. He/she cannot do it himself, but suggest three AI-based photo correction software programs that may help.

The first two (free versions) are okay, but not great as a bingo! With all hope of driving on the third, I press the right button and slowly the picture becomes the focus. Actual focus. I don't cry, you cry. The 22-year-old Taylor Swift appears to a reasonably intact from her Chrysalis state.

I am happy. Gina, who got over the whole 5 minutes ago, 13 years ago, is happy – mostly for me, I think.

The picture is not perfect, but like a metaphor for this whole story, everything has turned out perfectly.

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