Dorothy dropped off this aerial farm photo in severe need of photo repair. The top part of the photo had a liquid spilled over it giving this red stained look. I was able to remove all the marks and enhance the colour. The original photo was 5 x 7 inch in size, but was enlarged to A3 size without losing any detail.

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Sharyn contacted me about having 5 faded photos restored. They were recent prints done in the last 10 years of family ancestors. Printed using the Fuji Pictrix printer, many of these types photos have severely faded within a short period of time.

Sharyn thought they were beyond help, but I was able to bring back nearly all the missing details, adding a sepia colour tone to give back that old aged look.
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Ivan called in with this photo taken in the 70s in need of photo restoration. Typical of many photos taken in the 70s and 80s, the image has gotten a progressively worse red colour cast to it. Fortunately, there was enough remaining colour left to bring most of the colour back without spending a lot of labour on it.

Measuring approx 9 x 12cm the image was enlarged to 8 x 12 inch without losing any detail.
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Paula contacted me about the restoration of this photo. It suffered badly from fungal growth over the photo. Luckily the important portion - the dog’s face was largely intact. All the damage was removed, with a dark background used to hide most of the damage. Usually photos this bad are beyond help, but in this case Paula was very happy with the end result.

Ann came to see me about having three old architect conceptual sketches copied and printed. They were old sketches made of the old Whangarei Hospital and newer base hospital. They had been laminated over, were looking tatty, with rips and tears.

The images measured over 600mm wide. They were scanned, restored and printed onto my matt art paper. The images came out looking colourful and vibrant. Ann was very pleased with the final prints.

Margaret contacted me about having this old land subdivision advertisement copied. Dating back to 1921, Gulf of Vincent, Adelaide Australia, 9279 acres of the Yararoo Station was being sold off. This print had been mounted and framed in it’s original condition. Margaret wanted it copied and 4 copies made. She wanted the original look retained - with all the old tears and marks.

Measuring 95 x 60cm, the print was scanned in portions then carefully joined together. All copies were made to the same size. Margaret will be sending one copy to one of the descendents of the original owner.

Susan called to see me about having this photo copied and reproduced. It was a photo of her Grandfather, William Boyd, whom served in the Gordon Highlanders (Scotland) during World War II. The photo had suffered from the effects of “silvering out”. This is caused where silver oxides in the photo reach the surface and revert back to silver, hence the silvery reflection.

I was able to remove this effect in the photo, give it a sepia colour then print. Susan otherwise wanted the photo left in original condition with minor marks and scratches.

William Boyd immigrated to New Zealand in 1952, working in the woolen mills of Onehunga. He died 12 years ago aged 91.

Trinette came to see me about having this photo cleaned up, restored and enlarged. It was of Omapere Wharf, Northland in the early 20th century. Measuring 21 x 16cm in size, Trinette wanted the photo enlarged to 46cm wide but was concerned enlarging the image would leave it grainy and blurred.

I scanned the photo while Trinette was watching then zoomed in to look at all the detail. She was blown away when I was able to show how clear the photo actually looked. In the bottom portion we could make out men fishing off the end of the wharf!

I cleaned up the photo, removing all marks and scratches then printed the photo at the larger size. Trinette was amazed at how clear the final print came out. So if you’re wanting to make a small photo bigger - it can be done! As long as the original photo is clear and sharp, making it bigger is easy.

I’m running a holiday snap-shot printing special for January - 15% off Panorama and A3 sized and higher canvas mounted prints - with free freight nation-wide in New Zealand.

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Business has started for the new year. It was great to have a break after the busy lead up to Christmas, with more canvas prints done than the previous year. It was good to see a good mixture of artists, photographers, and regular shooters using my services - and all the images done looked great!

Here’s an image I took while visiting Whananaki, Northland, after the new year. It was a 20 photo image taken with my Canon 20D and 70-200mm 2.8 Zoom Lense. Why use a telephoto for a wide panorama? It gave me a chance to take far more detail than a wide angle lense allowing to make for big sized prints. This produced an 86 Megapixel equivalent photo after cropping, the bottom image is a zoomed in portion of part of the image - taken about 700-800 metres away.