Need photo restoration suggestions

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

I have a photo of my father that is special to me as he was a photographer and so there aren't many pictures of him in general. He died over twenty years ago but I have hung on to this forever.
It got water damage a few years back and its pretty bad. Does anyone know of a place that I can send it to so they can try to mimic the missing parts/restore it?

[ressalg]

Originally Posted by AGoldenTouchPhotography

I have a photo of my father that is special to me as he was a photographer and so there aren't many pictures of him in general. He died over twenty years ago but I have hung on to this forever.
It got water damage a few years back and its pretty bad. Does anyone know of a place that I can send it to so they can try to mimic the missing parts/restore it?

You could try posting the image here and see what some of the PP wizards here can do with it for you.

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

Here is the scanned picture, bigger/full size on my Flickr.

[ressalg]

WOW! Sorry to say, but that looks really bad. I'll be impressed as hell if someone can fix that for you. It's certainly beyond my limited skills.

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

I kind of thought so, heck I didn't even play in PS myself.

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

Its gong to be a yucky slow tedious job, but I did play some to see if it was even worth it.
I extracted him from the background so I could work on one thing at a time. Anyone that was ever in the Navy if you can tell me what that patch on his shoulder is supposed to look like it would help a TON.

[Andreas]

Have you seen this site: Photos Restored Digitally by Ctein ?

There's a book and there's a service if you are willing to pay (and send him the original photo).

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

Oh thank you. From his description it will take him a lot of time to repair this at 45/hr...maybe with my bonus. In the meantime its good to know there are places out there.