The original portrait was rushed into our studio still wet from water leaking into our client's basement.  The beautiful, antique oval frame with it's convex glass was filling with mold and mildew.  I acted immediately to save what remained of the original image.  Using compressed nitrogen (without my respirator!) to clean the wet, moldy photograph was a big mistake.  Four months of pneumonia followed.  Yes, I am much more careful now!
     We can copy and restore almost any photograph (and many documents) without harming or changing your original art or photograph.  All of our work is done by hand so that we can work from photographs in albums, tintypes, glass negatives, long panoramas, hand colored glass slides, and even precious images that are stuck to broken glass.  We often work with images that have survived fire and smoke damage. 
     To restore a damaged photograph we first make a new negative of the damaged image.  Working from the new negative our artists use the best tools, sometimes digital but usually traditional, to bring the image back to life.  You receive the restored negative and the bright new image printed by hand on old style, heavy weight, traditional portrait paper.  We can save your family history for the generations to come.  Ask us about traditional transparent oil tinting, archival custom framing, and custom sepia toning.