Important stuff is tough to start...

Well, the magic wand our pantomime's fairy queen uses was handed back to our director for final structural repairs before it gets handed back to our props mistress (who is also our fairy queen, and is also the person who broke it in the first place), so it's quite literally out of my hands now.

Fortunately, it was in excellent working order before then, so I'm pretty happy about that right now.

Next up is to write some documentation on working with and repairing it, should I not be around when such things need to happen.
Plus, it would be a good idea to mention that it's, oh, I dunno, dangerous what with the high voltages involved.

Anyway, because the flash unit (which I'd made removeable) is hard to describe with words, I just know that I'm going to need pictures.
The downside to that is that I need pictures.
Despite having taken a number of photos while I still had it, I need to improve their legibility, which means I have a fair bit of processing work ahead of me.

Unfortunately, this is not something I already know how to do, and so I'll need to learn as I go.
There are many techniques that might possibly help, but I won't know until I get to that point.

For example, I can draw vector graphics overtop the image to recreate the images with far more control over how it looks than other methods, or I could painstakingly draw lines around the edges of objects and manually adjust their colours and shading.
Both are still very hands-on, lengthy operations however...