David had lived in Papua New Guinea and sailed the tropical waters of the pacific. When a volcano erupted in the early 2000’s he fled his house and was unable to return for some time, when he did the house had been impacted severely from ash and subsequent rain.
The only photo of his yacht had been very severely damaged, the image was taken in Prony Bay – New Caledonia some years before and the yacht long ago sold.
He asked if we could restore it, it was a task. The Boat was one issue but the background also had to be rebuilt and by pure coincidence I had been photographing boats in the same bay the previous year and had images of the same location.
It was an extensive rebuild, in consultation with the client we rebuilt many of the features that were not apparent in the original image but for David he wanted something that reminded him of what was rather than the specifics of the original photograph
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