Photo Restoration    Special Effects    Portraits     Custom Cards  

About Me ...

 I believe it helps  people to know who will be handling their most precious photographs. 

      "A face to the name" as they say. 

I have had a passion for Photography since I was 11 years old. By the time I was in my teens I was often told I "Had the Eye"..     

   I  took Photography in high school than during the years I raised my family I continued to study and practice photography skills on my own.

  In 2003 I  took classes at Rio Salado College to learn Web Page design and Photoshop. 

     I use a Dell PC with Windows XP, a Cannon Printer and a Wacom Graphire Pen Tablet and my most important tool, Adobe Photoshop. 

    I can appreciate how important an irreplaceable photograph is. So when I am doing a restoration I give it the same care and attention as if it were my very own. ---  I know first hand the feeling of loosing heirloom photographs to fire;

  When my Father retired in 1982 he  traveled in his motor home for 10 years. He kept all of the family photo albums with him in his RV. Many albums were from my childhood and others  were  family heirloom albums  from the late 1800's to 1950's. 

   4-18-1992 ...

   My Dad was driving Southbound on I-5 in out of Indio CA. .. 

  A leaky fuel line under the hood caught fire ... 

   He had no way to fight the blaze himself and the fire engines arrived too late.  

 His motor home was 

burned completely....

  By looking at the damage to the RV it is 

amazing that anything was salvageable. 

Many old photographs were destroyed 

completely or beyond repair 

but 

somehow  many others survived.  

( 1906 -The man standing in the middle is my Grandfather

the man on the bench is my Great Grandfather)

    If I would have had the technology at my fingertips 20 years ago as I do now, I  could have scanned all those heirloom photographs and copied them onto disks.  Of course I wouldn't of had the originals after the fire, but at least I would have the digital images of all that were completely destroyed and now gone forever. 

  Good quality CD's will last 100 years or more. And if each family member had their own copy it would be nearly impossible for family heirloom images to be lost forever from an unfortunate occurrence such as fire or flood.

    Although most of the business I get is from custom designed business and calling cards.  Requests for my restorations and  special effect editing are steadily growing as word is getting out.

      My prices are affordable because it is affordable to me.  I work in my home during my spare time, I do not have employees and all my equipment is paid for so for the time being , my overhead is low. 

BUT, I DO want to GROW ...  I will need better equipment for a studio SO, I REALLY APPRECIATE your business!!

   Whatever your needs may be. Let me know and you can feel secure that I will treat your order as if it were my very own. 

  Every client is important to me, and you can be sure I'll listen and give you my full attention and dedication from start to finish. 

  If your photograph has too much damage to restore I will tell you up front.

 Thank You for visiting my Web Site, 

And I look forward to hearing from you!

joann@deserthuesphotography.com