Another history photo art exercise

I like these projects. Here I found an old damaged photo from Anthony Biddle from the historical archives and tried to turn it into an interesting painting. Here is the after.

And here is the before.

An officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close-quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty-hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He can be seen training Marines in the RKO short documentary Soldiers of the Sea. He was considered not just an expert in fighting, but also a pioneer of United States Marine Corps training in the bayonet and hand-to-hand combat. He based his style on fencing, though this approach was sometimes criticized as being unrealistic for military combat.

Let me know what you think, if you have requests for other photo's I should work on, let me know.