Saving iOS Application Scene State

Question

This may be impossible, but I'm trying to save the state of my application between scene transitions, but I can't figure out what to do. Currently I love the way that when you have an application running and hit the home button, you can go back to that application just where you left off, but if you transition between scenes (in a storyboard), once you get back to that scene the application state was not saved.

I only have two different scenes that need to be saved (you transition back and forth from one to the other). How can I go about saving a storyboard scenes state without taking up precise memory?

More Detailed: Here is my entire storyboard. You transition back and forth between scenes using the plus toolbar button. On the second scene the user can tap on the table view cells and a real image will fill the image view (See figure 1.2)

Figure 1.1

In figure 1.2 you see what happens when you tap inside one of the many table view cells (an image view pops up.)

Figure 1.2

THE PROBLEM: When you tap a table view cell, which fills an image view (shown in figure 1.2) it works fine if you stay on that scene or even hit the iPhone home button (if you hit the iPhone home button and then reopen the app the scene's state was saved and the image view filled with a simple image still shows just like we left it), but if I transition (using the plus button) back to the first scene, and then use the plus button on the first scene to get back to the second scene the image view that I created (shown in figure 1.2) disappears and the second scene loads without saving the state and image views we filled.

EDIT: I tried using the same view controller for both scenes, but it didn't solve the problem.

UPDATE: I just found the following code (that I think stores a views state). How could I use this and is this what I've been looking for?

MyViewController *myViewController=[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"myView" bundle:nil];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:myViewController animated:YES];
[myViewController release];