I’ve been asked, increasingly, over the last year to restore old black and white images and make fresh prints.

This first started shortly after I did some photo restoration work on a few old photographs of my dad. I made these restorations for use at his funeral service, last year.

Here is a link to one of those restored images of my dad:

View Restored Photograph of my Dad

Subsequently, I’ve had several people ask me to repair and restore old photographs for them.

Here is a scan of one such original photo that I was asked to restore. (click to enlarge)

The thing I like about this image is its unusual content. I’m told the image is from the 1940’s. It’s a snapshot of a woman and her farm.

This image is a double exposure (possibly triple). The person taking the photograph was a cousin of the woman.

The picture taker didn’t wind the camera, thus advancing the film forward to a fresh frame, before snapping the next frame. This is from a day when the shutter and film had separate winder mechanisms on the camera. A picture taker had to correctly wind both in order to take a new exposure on a fresh frame.

The goof ended up making this image an heirloom in the family. The novelty of having the woman superimposed over her farm was an accident of providence.

This next image in my restored version of the above original. (click to enlarge)

Tags: Black and White, Old Photos, Photo Restoration

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