Original572 × 382 Source type: digitised from print
Paul Hamon, aged 9, blows out the candles on his birthday cake at the dining table in the family home in Pooraka, Adelaide, in November 1981. The house had not yet received its back-room extension. Around the table are grandmother Evelyn Hamon, Nana Shirley Drogemuller, mother Desrae Hamon (in blue), brother Mark Hamon, Aunty Danni Drogemuller, Papa Allan Drogemuller and Aunty Kerry Drogemuller (later Jacobs). Photograph by Howard Hamon. The restored version has been cleaned, colour-corrected and upscaled with generative AI while preserving the original expressions and table setting.