this is superb work, although I am confused as to why the bag chain is in gold on the b/w image...........it is almost too good!

Thanks Ade..I have no idea why the chain was gold... I found the pic on Flickr......spent alot of hours on this.

Very good colouring. Not much sharpening/restoring had to be done, but it's good! =)

a lot of hours! and u did good wonderful job,good luck

Actually Wlado, there was alot of sharpening and restoration work involved....look at the steps. The original is very dark and you cant see the damage....after i lightened it and changed the tone, you can see the pic was badly scratched, pitted and damaged.

OK, calm down. =) TBH, I don't agree with you, the image was very sharp, and it was scratched and damaged in non-significant parts around the girl. I wouldn't call that badly scratched, but you did do a good work. gl! =)

Good color, good contrast, good restoration. Just a wee bit pixelated in high res (at least there was a high res to choose from) but overall this is one of the better entries I've seen and see you placing. Good luck

the color is amazing.....

great job

Just between you and me I think you should have at least placed. I can see it was close.

I agree Jaws....im very disappointed with the results.