Father's Day Photo Restoration

Oldies But Goodies

Old pictures fascinate me! Somehow, after spending hours restoring photos pixel by pixel, I feel more connected to the past.

(All the images below should change back and forth between the original and the restored. If they do not, please click on the image itself, otherwise you will not see the restoration. I don't understand why the images are sometimes properly animated and other times not.)

Here's a picture of my father, Stanley Michalik, holding a cat in May, 1923. Notice how the restored picture reveals his eyes previously hidden in darkness.

Blemishes and fingerprints can also be removed as shown in this picture of my Dad at Camp Rucker, Alabama in October, 1943:

I have no date for this picture.

This restored photo was taken by my Dad in devastated Cologne, Germany in May, 1945 shortly after World War II ended in Europe.

This photo of Dad in Morristown, NJ on July 20, 1947 is greatly improved by blemish removal!

There's even a way to remove blemishes left by faulty development of the original photographic film! Check out this slightly blurry picture of my Dad helping me walk on June 7, 1949.