In 1943 in the Tunisian campaign of WW11, the recently formed 2 Para played an active part in the battle.One of the senior officers was a Major Ashford,sadly he was killed a few days after the photo was taken at Beja. This is the only photo that his family have of him in uniform and this was in a book about the formation of 2 Para.As you can see the photo was very flat and monochrome with very little detail. Maj. Ashford's grandson ( who I work with) asked me to see if I could do anything with the photo. This is my interpretation, have tried to give the images a little depth and character, and try to make them come alive a little. Hope I've succeeded a little, hope you like what I've tried to do. Included the photo so you can see what I had to work with. Will also post another version of the portrait to compere
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