Photo Restoration…

I have some moderate skills with photo restoration but I am by no means an expert.  Recently I had a photo that I needed restored that was beyond my skills (and patience).  I searched online for a a company/freelancer that would be able to perform the work that I was incapable of.  I found a company called Radix based in India that looked like they could handle the work.  They appear to be primarily web/general programmers but they also perform restoration (samples).  I contacted them and they sent me instructions for uploading the photo so that they could give me a quote.  The quote came to $40 USD.  Using paypal I sent them the funds and a few days later they sent me this:

Radix provides one free revision but I didn’t see anything that I wanted revised so I approved their work.  After approval they sent me appropriately cropped files for 5×7, 8×10, and 12×18 prints.  The approval email also contained a full-size image.

Use the “Request Free Quote” section on their main web page to get started.

Cheers,

-J.

On perception…

As part of the project to archive all of the paper I have from business school I am building a database of the documents.  The fields that I am looking for are pretty simple: Title, Source, Author, and Date.  Many of these documents are photocopies of sections of books (textbooks or otherwise).  One such copy is called “A Perfect Failure: The Bay of Pigs” and in looking at it I thought that I saw an author name.  It looked like a perfectly good Italian name and in reading it in my mind it sounded like “Fee-As-Co-Eys”.  After I added the “name” to my database I realized that it was not a author’s name, but a section name, “Fiascoes”.

What’s the point?  The point is that the confirmation bias is everywhere, even when performing the simplest of tasks.

“When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.”

Cheers,

-J.