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Pixel perfectly restored from a ca 1920 summer advertising poster for the coastal town of Ostend (Oostende in Dutch, Ostende in French), showing a bathing beauty with a large sun umbrella. In the back the esplanade with the casino-Kursaal.
Reine des plages is French for queen of beaches. (in Dutch the term is koningin der badsteden, which means queen of coastal towns.)

Hello, my first name is Heidi. My family name is De Leeuw, which is Dutch for The Lion. I was born in the mid 1960s. From the early 1980s on I worked in sales and administration. From the moment my husband started 'AAP Art and Photography' as an ecommerce company back in 2000, I developed a growing interest in what he was doing, and specifically in digital restoration of photos, postcards and posters. Sometimes people ask me why I spend so much time in taking a worn and torn image and restoring it to its original beauty, I answer them with another question: why are old paintings and classic cars being restored? Because, make no mistake, restoration is an art and a craft. No fancy magic software, but pixel by pixel cleaning and...