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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: matt problem
« on: Monday 27 August 07 02:36 BST (UK) »
Hello all,
much appreciate all the efforts, I have printed them out and shown to Dad, not an internet user he sees bits in all of them that he likes, and is tempted to pick up his watercolours to try repairing his 63 year old painting with the technology he knows!
The sky would have originally been a light blue with white clouds, I'll attach a pic by his father (my grandfather) of Slieve Binion that has better survived the years.
A clue to original tints would be the attached turf house on the right, the roof would be a rusted corrogated tin. Roof of the main house was probably slate, but slates differ in tints...
The Mourne Mountains are in County Down in what is today Northern Ireland, they were famous for their dark granite, a line of a song refers to "where the dark Mournes sweep down to the sea".
All the best,
Donald.
much appreciate all the efforts, I have printed them out and shown to Dad, not an internet user he sees bits in all of them that he likes, and is tempted to pick up his watercolours to try repairing his 63 year old painting with the technology he knows!
The sky would have originally been a light blue with white clouds, I'll attach a pic by his father (my grandfather) of Slieve Binion that has better survived the years.
A clue to original tints would be the attached turf house on the right, the roof would be a rusted corrogated tin. Roof of the main house was probably slate, but slates differ in tints...
The Mourne Mountains are in County Down in what is today Northern Ireland, they were famous for their dark granite, a line of a song refers to "where the dark Mournes sweep down to the sea".
All the best,
Donald.