Impulse

This week’s pic­ture is from the 1930’s, so I guess it doesn’t tech­ni­cally count as hav­ing been taken in the last week. I did, how­ever, do the restora­tion in the last week for my dad for his birth­day. It’s a photo of my grand­mother when she was at most half my age. Mouse over the pic­ture to see the original.

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At this size, you can’t really see the work I had to do on the restora­tion. The orig­i­nal photo’s emul­sion was cracked severely. Here’s a detail so you can see for yourself:

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1. Picture time: old school
2. The Day After
3. British Museum ceiling