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Updated: May 24, 2022


You've seen them before. This style was all the rage from 1880-1920. These large portraits were actually wet down and then shaped to fit the convex, bubble-shaped glass. This process would invariably "soften" the look of the images, so these photographs were often sketched or drawn over with charcoal and colored paints in an attempt to add clarity and precision to them.



I've been fortunate to have the opportunity to restore some of these unique photographs:





Depending on the decade that the photo was taken, the photo paper and inks used, the climate, and the amount of UV exposure, our photographs often develop color casts. They can turn yellow, red, green, blue, purple, etc.


What they have in common is that they can all be restored.


This photo from a customer is of majestic Glacier National Park, in the Rocky Mountains of Montana.




I heard this quote a while back and it always stuck with me. I'm thinking of it again now as I post this gator photograph that I just restored for the folks at UF. This photo was taken 40 years ago at Newnan's Lake. In addition to the ripped and missing areas, it had some nasty water and mold damage. After repairing these issues, I decided to add in the splash at the bottom of the image to balance things out.

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