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Title: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: TROOPER ROLLO on Sunday 20 June 21 09:01 BST (UK)

This is Arthur John Rowles. He was born in 1902 at Cardiff and died in 1981.
He served with the Mercantile Marine in WW1 and was in Hudson Bay in 1918., age just 16.
The quality of the picture is awful which matches the weather by the look of it.
If anything can be done to improve I would be extremely grateful.

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: Trishanne on Sunday 20 June 21 11:43 BST (UK)

Not a lot to go on, as you say the weather is awful too, but here's a try from me
Pat

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: McGroger on Sunday 20 June 21 12:04 BST (UK)

Sorry, I've had a good play around, but I can't sort the detail from the damage enough to make any  sense of his features without making them up. :(
Valiant attempt, Pat. :D
Peter

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: McGroger on Monday 21 June 21 05:30 BST (UK)

It nagged at me till I gave in and had another go at it. Here 'tis. (The face is not necessarily Arthur's. If you have another photo of him, Stuart, I could use it and try to make him look more like himself.)
Peter

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: TROOPER ROLLO on Monday 21 June 21 09:28 BST (UK)

Thanks Peter,

Here is Arthur John Rowles on his Merchant Seaman's card, which must be within a year or so of the Hudson Bay picture.

Cheers STUART

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: TROOPER ROLLO on Monday 21 June 21 09:34 BST (UK)

I have managed to flip the picture which may align with the posture on the original picture a bit better.

Cheers STUART

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: McGroger on Monday 21 June 21 10:47 BST (UK)

Did my own flip, thanks Stuart. Here he is, fresh from the plastic surgeon. ;D
Peter

Title: Re: Arthur John Rowles Is this impossible to restore?
Post by: TROOPER ROLLO on Monday 21 June 21 10:58 BST (UK)

That's great Peter,
You have turned a black blob into a photograph.
Many many thanks

STUART