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Title: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: sirron on Tuesday 24 August 10 18:54 BST (UK)
I have had a go at restoration but only the simple ones. This photograph of my father when he joined the navy in 1920 has just surfaced out of an old box and I have never seen it before today. It's a bit too much for me but you guys are real experts so I wondered if you could bring it back to life.
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: terry h on Tuesday 24 August 10 23:08 BST (UK)
A couple from me

Terry
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: terry h on Tuesday 24 August 10 23:09 BST (UK)
And another

Terry
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: Finley 1 on Tuesday 24 August 10 23:16 BST (UK)
great Job Terry... he sure is a good looking chap...    :) :)
xintwin ;)
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: sirron on Tuesday 24 August 10 23:49 BST (UK)
Terry
That's brilliant, I couldn't get anywhere near that quality. Thanks so much. That photograph has just blossomed with your rendition, it will mean so much to the family.

Brian
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: saddles on Wednesday 25 August 10 03:15 BST (UK)
One from me.

Mike.
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: saddles on Wednesday 25 August 10 06:18 BST (UK)
And another colour version.

Carolyn  :)
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: Tony Freeman on Wednesday 25 August 10 07:54 BST (UK)
My three attempts in alternative styles  :)
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: Tony Freeman on Wednesday 25 August 10 07:55 BST (UK)
Second
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: Tony Freeman on Wednesday 25 August 10 07:59 BST (UK)
and finally the third.
great photograph  :)
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: sirron on Wednesday 25 August 10 18:09 BST (UK)
You guys are all so good, it amazes me that you can take a really poor quality photograph and make it better than when it was first printed. My heartfelt thanks, my sister is over the moon.

Brian
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: Niksmum on Wednesday 25 August 10 19:33 BST (UK)
one from me

Irene
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: salmynka on Wednesday 25 August 10 20:13 BST (UK)
lovely restores  :)
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: sirron on Wednesday 25 August 10 20:53 BST (UK)
Quote from: salmynka on Wednesday 25 August 10 20:13 BST (UK)
lovely restores  :)

You're right, artists of the first calibre. I've just been round to see my sister who was a real daddies girl and she was almost in tears when I showed her the restores that you've all done. He's been gone over forty years now but the memories are still strong. He served twenty five years in the navy after that early picture of him was taken, including a few years on HMS Hood but he was transferred off just before she was sunk, but that's another story.
Thanks everybody
Brian and sister Vera.
Title: Re: 1920 stoker my father
Post by: salmynka on Thursday 26 August 10 01:19 BST (UK)
The docks are looking a sweet place to hang out!!!

ewwww Im not sure thats coming out the way I meant it  :-\