HELP : Someone with Photoshop Skills

Hi all,
I am after some assistance with touching up these photos. I know we have a lot of talented people on these forums and ask if someone would just take a moment of there time to see what they can do to improve them a little.

Photos can be found here:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/cassius

They were taken by the father inlaw and thought it would be a good christmas present for him if I put these selected pictures in a photo frame for him. I had a sort of imagining a sepia theme, but open to ideas as I suck when it comes to photoshop.

Your time and effort will be so much be appreciated.

 

Here's my try at one of them :

http://www.7photography.com/images/IMG_9866rt.jpg

 

is that moonta bay? im goin there nxt week

 

Mate thats great...the colours really look like they are from that time. was it easy to do?

 

I think it might be. not sure, they went along the ocean road from adelaide on holidays and stoped at these old mining towns that mined for copper and other minerals.

 

Here're my attempt. 2nd Photo doesn't load for me btw.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/TTZsZGlobEFTRTUzZUE9PQ

 

Fairly easy: straightened the lines up, added vignette, duplicated layer, turned bottom layer black and white with a bit of tweaking, top layer overlay with soft light with a bit of tweaking, adjusted levels and shadow/highlight... and presto!

 

RyoSaeba,
Mate thx for that and have fixed up the second photo. I much appreciate your time to do what you have done, it will help me greatly as i am a noob doing Photoshop stuff.

Those of you that have made the photos better I am very grateful.

 

Thanx again Sol