This Invicta will be in a forthcoming feature, again before...
...and after.
The best results are obtained when Mike can make his own, very high resolution, scans of the original photos as here. The man with the battle-scarred leathers is bike racer Jock Forbes – in 1933.
now able to bring his talents to bear on photos appearing in the Bulletin.
It can be surprising how much detail can still be found in what looks like a very faded print. I should stress that the way Mike works is to restore what is in the photo, not to add elements from somewhere else. Here are some ‘before and after’ examples.