This is my Grandpa Samuel Wilson Sykes' family (or at least some of them). I came across this picture in very poor condition, faded and all but bleached out. Working in Photoshop, I was able to recover a lot of the details I feared were lost. Imperfect, a bit grainy and with some jpeg artifacts… but the more I tried to refine this image from this point,…
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