The 100th Anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres also known as Passchendaele occurred in 2017. Every year on 11 of November we remember the end of the war and on the second Sunday, Remembrance Sunday we give thought to those who were lost in the conflict. This image is to remind us that life after War does not mean we forget. Images need not die along with the unfortunate. Old images can be restored and coloured and given new life and reborn into Ambient Images! What is an Ambient image? – An ambient image is a restored and colourized image with an immersive soundscape and movement.... Read More

For the last 6 months, I have been the restoration artist for the Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine accompanies the BBC TV series of the same name and offers expert tips on researching your family history. They have been running a competition where a reader can send in some photos from their old family albums and get them published but also as an added bonus get £75 worth of Image-Restore photo restoration vouchers! I have included their entry terms below. Who Do You Think You Are terms for the competition: SHARE YOUR FAMILY ALBUM Send us your... Read More

H.M.A. R34 was a British-engineered airship that entered service just after the end of WW1. With a design inspired by the German Zeppelin L33, brought down and captured on English soil in 1916, H.M.A. R34 was the first ever aircraft to make an east-west transatlantic flight in July 1919 and, with the return flight, the first ever two-way crossing. To mark the 100th anniversary of R34’s historic flight and celebrate this significant achievement in British engineering history, I took it upon myself to restore and colour several photos of the airship and her crew taken from the Library of... Read More

The following is a set of photos showing the movement of troops through Waziristan in 1936. “Waziristan and the March to Razmak” The Waziristan campaign 1936–1939 comprised a number of operations conducted in Waziristan by British and Indian forces. This was against the fiercely independent tribesmen that inhabited this region. These operations were conducted in 1936–1939, when operations were undertaken against followers of the Pashtun nationalist Mirzali Khan. Also known by the British as the “Faqir of Ipi”, a religious and political agitator who was spreading... Read More

Epson FastFoto FF-680W scanner review This is my Epson FastFoto FF-680W scanner review and in-depth look at the software and features. NOTE: This unit was given to me to perform this review. It is an unbiased review and opinions of the unit are solely my own. First, let us hear from the Epson news bulletin and what they have to say. “Epson has announced its FastFoto FF-680W scanner to help customers preserve and digitally share precious printed photos. This provides the perfect alternative to having stacks of photo albums and boxes containing hundreds of photos. Manually positioning... Read More