Long story short: a friend asked if I'd fix a family photo for her.

I scanned at differing exposures/gamuts/contrasts/etc. to see if an HDR-ed composite might reveal various of the weak or absent highlights, then ended up proceeding with only one of the scans. Before long, between corrections and modifications and digital legerdemain in Lr and who knows how many hits with the clone tool and selections and other digerty-doo in Ps, it dawned on me that what I was seeing was not a basic 'restoration'. It was, or would instead be --thanks to the lady's look-- an image worthy of something more 'interpretative'.

I could be right or I could be wrong. There's little difference between the two.