Paula came to see me about having four photos put onto canvas. They were photos taken of where she grew up on the Northland west coast at Omapere.

We disussed what sort of layout would look best, ending up with this simple but effective vertical canvas, with the photos printed in black and white. It measured 620mm x 250mm size and will be going overseas to her cousin as a gift. The photos consist of the Omapare destination, view from their bach, the bach itself and the family ancestral burial ground and home mountain behind.

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John Searing, creator of sand hopper gallery, contacted me about having a series of black and white landscape photo prints made. He’d had issues with previous printers not being able to get the tonal range right on his images. Also getting true neutral black and white photo prints had been a problem.

With the HP Z3100 printer, making his prints was easy to. John’s work can been seen at his website sand hopper gallery

It’s not what you think! Not a domestic dispute ending with the bride being removed. Laurel called in about having a photo of her husband in his army uniform on his own. He had passed away 17 years ago, and Laurel was getting his army medals mounted with a picture of him going with the medals.

Laurel wanted a simple photo where her husband was standing with a plain background behind him. I removed the bridal image, filled in the missing parts of the image and added in a simple graduating background. Laurel was extremely happy with the final result.

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Diane contacted me about having the above photo put onto canvas. Taken back in the seventies it was a picture of her daughter. The colours had faed with time, and we decided that a black and white print of the photo put on canvas would look better. We decided on have a mid tone gray background for the side wraps of the canvas. This canvas was glued onto an A4 size frame.

Kyle from Auckland contacted me about having this photo enhanced and put onto canvas. It was a small 12 x 8 cm photo taken of his father, Ian, back in 1967 when he was 18.

The photo was taken on the Haast Highway, South Island when he was on a hunting trip. Ian was having such a good time he was 2 weeks overdue by the time he got home and nobody was worried! He shot a deer or two but gave them to the locals. He had hitch hiked all the way there and all the way back from Christchurch.

In the original photo Ian’s features are blurred as the focus was on the background. Kyle asked me if I could bring out more detail using a preview photo he emailed to me. I was able to enhance it and sent the proof back to him. Kyle liked the look and couriered up the original photo where I did a high level scan.

With input from Kyle on further proofs I was able to bring out the best of the photo. Four 600 x 400mm prints of the photo were printed onto canvas, mounted and couriered to Kyle (the photo of the canvas doesn’t do justice to how good it looked). He emailed back when they arrived that the canvas prints looked great. If anyone has a small photo that they’re thinking about enlarging and putting onto canvas, it can certainly be done.

Ian from Kerikeri came to see me about having some high quality photo prints made from his recent trip to Europe. Ian had a series of artistic images which he’d selectively turned to black and white and left portions in colour.

Ranging from 8 x 12inch prints to ones 1000mm wide, Ian will have them all framed and hung in his house. I was really impressed with Ian’s photography. I asked him if he was a professional photographer, to which Ian replied he wasn’t. Ian just has a really great eye for a scene!

The first photo is a nice sunset beach scene, the next two are semi coloured photos taken in Venice. Printed on my Epson Luster Satin finish paper they looked wonderful.

The Crams came to see me about having a canvas print made of a tree that had been struck by lightning on their farm 15 years ago. They had seen a triptych (pronounced “trip-tick”) of a tree I had done for myself and thought their own one would look great. Triptych canvas prints are divided into three pieces, normally with the centre piece being the bigger of the three and having greater emphasis.

The image was scanned from a 35mm negative using the Nikon 9000 negative and slide scanner. This produced high resolution photo that was then turned to black and white and printed on canvas, then mounted on three frames measuring a total of 900mm x 600mm and producing a stunning image.

This photo was emailed to me in need of some heavy photo restoration. The photo was stained and marked quite badly. The marks and stains were removed, the background entirely replaced, then turned to a more pleasing black and white. The photo was then enlarged and printed to 400 x 500mm.

Rachel contacted me through my website enquiring about getting some photos turned to black and white then printed onto canvas. This particular one required the man on the left removed, with the resulting background filled in. The image was then turned to black & white, then mounted onto a 15 x 15cm square gallery wrapped canvas frame. This and two other photos, both turned to black and white and mounted on 15cm x 15cm blocks, were given as Valentines Day presents.

Isobel came to me with this photo of a group of men taken in the 1960s. Isobel looks after the man 2nd from left back row these days - he’s confined to a wheelchair. The photo had orginally been in colour but the chemicals in the photo had deteriorated to such an extent that this red hue was all that was left. Conferring with Isobel, it would be more economical to turn it to black and white than try to recolour it. All small marks were removed to make the photo look as good as possible. Isobel was very pleased with the end result and liked the B&W effect better.