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Fantasy colourisation of the grounds at the Trentham Estate in Stoke-on-Trent, England. The property was owned by the successive Dukes of Sutherland until it was abandoned in about 1905. (The Duke could not even give it away.) It is now operated as an attraction for tourists and locals as well.
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Colour and light adjusted in Aperture 3.
See another view of the estate: "Put up your Dukes"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/15548358579/
Beautiful little dragons the males can range in colourisation from the one above to the one I've added in the comment box. And added a female for comparison too.
Bourtange is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Westerwolde in the Netherlands. It is situated in the region Westerwolde in the east of the province of Groningen near the German border. Fort Bourtange was built in 1593 during the Dutch Revolt and was used until 1851. Between 1967 and 1992 the star fort was gradually restored to its mid-18th-century state and it is currently an open-air museum
The name Bourtange comes from the Dutch word tange (sand ridge), because the settlement is situated on a strategically important sand ridge in the marshes of the Bourtange Moor.
Fort Bourtange was initially built during the Eighty Years' War (circa 1568–1648) when William I of Orange wanted to control the main road between Germany and the city of Groningen which was controlled by the Spanish. This road followed a sandy ridge (tange) through the marshes (the Bourtange Swamp).
Later, around 1594, Bourtange became part of the fortifications on the border between the northern provinces (Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe) and Germany.
Bourtange was a separate municipality until 1822, when it was merged with Vlagtwedde.
In 1851 the star fort was given up and Bourtange became a normal village.
Around 1960 living conditions in the village deteriorated and it was decided that Bourtange would be rebuilt to its state of 1740-1750. Today it is an open-air museum. [Wikipedia]
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over the central business district of Regina, Saskatchewan at sunset-time. Shot from the top of Wascana Hill in Wascana Centre.
Shot a minute later: "Blue Tango"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/12127328213/
See other sunsets: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
See more of Regina: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157629409033432/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, +0.3 EV (by accident; I usually have this set at zero), master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.9 MP)
Processing: cropped along the top & bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3 and the "studio" frame applied in Aviary
Fantasy colourisation of a section of the Japanese-style garden designed by Shogo Myaida for Marjorie Merriweather Post at Hillwood, her estate in Washington, DC.
Shooting info: handheld with remote shutter release, auto focus, 11 MP, JPEG with normal compression.
(I no longer shoot JPEGs; this shot is from my "early" digital camera days.)
Processing: colour, highlights & exposure adjusted in Aperture 3; image enhanced in Aviary
Fantasy colourisation of the west sky, shot from my yard in Regina, Saskatchewan on Nov. 28, at 5:02 p.m.
Shot 20 seconds earlier: "Wild Sunset"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/11933477003/
Shot 40 seconds earlier: "Golden Sunset"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/11257679793/
See other sunsets in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: ultra wide-angle lens set at 18 mm, RAW, handheld, auto focus, -0.3 EV (by accident; I usually set this at zero); 15.9 MP
Processing: colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3 and the neighbour's flagpole removed with the retouch tool
Caption inspired by the title of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.
Fantasy colourisation of a Mexican sunflower (asteraceae tithonia rotundifolia) in the butterfly garden at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Favoured by butterflies and hummingbirds, this flower is in the aster/daisy family.
See this one, shot a minute later: "Fleur"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/8028803801/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld with remote shutter release, available light only, auto focus, 14.6 MP
Processing: colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; some specks removed
Fantasy colourisation of the grounds at the Trentham Estate in Stoke-on-Trent, England. The property was owned by the successive Dukes of Sutherland until it was abandoned in about 1905. (The Duke could not even give it away.) It is now operated as an attraction for tourists and locals as well.
See another view of the estate: "O Give Me a Home"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/15735652182/
Fantasy colourisation of a skylight at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
See this image in blue:
www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/28836050670/
See it in yellow & orange:
www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/8580240577/
See the rotunda: "Bejewelled"';
www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/6915035715/
Shooting info: handheld with remote shutter release, auto focus, master pixel size 11, JPEG with normal compression.
(I no longer shoot JPEGs; this shot is from my "early" digital camera days.)
Processing: tilted and cropped along all sides into square format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3 and some spots removed with the retouch tool
Fantasy colourisation of the sky in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, 15.9 MP
Processing: saturation & light adjusted in Aperture 3
A trio of two slides and a black and white medium format negative purchased on eBay and the amazing transformations to each made possible by the A1 function in Luminar Neo editing software, showing the incredible capabilities now possible to material that at one time may have only been fit for the bin. Case in point is this b&w shot which had substantial processing damage and which manually would be almost impossible to remove from a scan. One click and not only has it been removed without trace but a pretty good attempt at colourisation has been made too. I all also didn't expend any time removing manually all the dust and scratches either!
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Fantasy colourisation of a canola field in the R.M. of Sherwood, near the eastern boundary of Regina, the capital city of the province of Saskatchewan. Canola blossoms were originally yellow (to view, see companion images - link below).
This scene looks very rural, calm & serene, but the busy Trans-Canada Highway is on the left and behind me, just out of the picture.
Companion images:
"Yellow Gold"; www.flickr.com/photos/60785624@N07/9322083317/
"Prairie Gold"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9317231965/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 10.9 MP)
Processing: cropped along the top & bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
El sifaca diademado o de diadema (Propithecus diadema) es una especie de primate estrepsirrino de la familia Indriidae catalogado como "en peligro", que habita en la selva lluviosa del este de Madagascar. El sifaca diademado es una de las especies de lémures más grandes del mundo.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propithecus_diadema
The diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema), or diademed simpona, is an endangered species of sifaka, one of the lemurs endemic to certain rainforests in eastern Madagascar. Along with the indri, this species is one of the two largest living lemurs, with an average weight of 6.5 kg and a total adult length of approximately 105 centimetres (41 inches), half of which is its tail. Russell Mittermeier, one of the contemporary authorities on lemurs, describes the diademed sifaka as "one of the most colorful and attractive of all the lemurs", having a long and silky coat. P. diadema is also known by the Malagasy names simpona, simpony and ankomba joby. The term "diademed sifaka" is also used as a group species designation formerly encompassing four distinct subspecies.
P. diadema is readily distinguished from all the other lemur species by its characteristic markings and large physical size. Its entire coat is moderately long, silky and luxuriant. The long white fur encircling his muzzle and covering its cheeks, forehead and chin, engenders the "diadem" or crown appearance. Its eyes are a reddish brown, the muzzle is short, and the face is bare with colourisation of darkish gray to jet black. The crown fur is also quite black and often extends to the nape of the neck. The upper back and shoulder fur are slate grayish, although the lower back is lighter in colour attaining a silvery quality. Flanks and tail are a paler gray, sometimes even white, as is the case for ventral fur. Hands and feet are entirely black, while arms, legs and base of tail are a yellowish-golden hue. Only the male is endowed with a large cutaneous gland at the exterior center of the throat, which feature is typically reddish brown.
Fantasy colourisation of a Mexican sunflower (asteraceae tithonia rotundifolia) in the butterfly garden at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Favoured by butterflies and hummingbirds, this flower is in the aster/daisy family.
See this one, shot a minute earlier: "Mexicana"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/8499055554/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld with remote shutter release, available light only, auto focus, master pixel size 14.6
Processing: cropped, spots removed with the retouch tool, colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3 (petals were originally orange)
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan as the sun was going down.
Shot from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast area of the city.
Taken a few seconds later: "Fantasy"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9265486020/
and "All Ablaze"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9238463052/
See more sunset shots in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Processing: RAW; handheld, auto focus, 15.9 MP
Processing: colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Fantasy colourisation of a blue morpho (Morpho peleides) butterfly, with its beautiful eye spots and markings.
Shot inside the butterfly garden at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
See other images in my "Butterflies" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157632179628200/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld with remote shutter release, auto focus, 14.6 MP
Processing: colours adjusted in Aperture 3
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan, at sunset.
Shot from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast area of the city.
See other sunset shots in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: ultra wide-angle lens set at 18 mm, RAW, handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.9 MP)
Processing: cropped along the top & bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan, just before the sun dipped below the horizon. Shot from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast area of the city.
See other shots from this location in my "Saskatchewan Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.9 MP)
Processing: cropped into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
A view of the lakeshore in downtown Bemidji, Minnesota, home of the legendary Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. This image was shot in mid-May; fantasy colourisation was done in Aperture 3.
See the statues of Paul Bunyan & his blue ox, Babe, shot nearby:
"Babe"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/7157344821/
Shooting info: handheld with remote shutter release, auto focus, 14.1 MP, JPEG with superfine compression.
(I no longer shoot JPEGs; this is one of the last shots from my "pre-RAW" days.)
Processing: tilted; black point, colour & light adjusted
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan at sunset-time.
Shot from Wascana Hill in Wascana Centre.
Shot 5 min. later: "Intermezzo"; www.flickr.com/photos/60785624@N07/9523291609/
See other sunsets: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
See more of Regina: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157629409033432/
Shooting info: RAW, handheld, auto focus, +0.3 EV (by accident; I usually leave this at zero), master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.7 MP)
Processing: tilted, cropped along the bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format, colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; saturation readjusted slightly in Aviary
Fantasy colourisation of the sky and clouds over Regina, Saskatchewan.
Photographed on the grounds of the RCMP Academy, Depot Division.
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Ok, that opinion is subjective I know, but it was certainly a far better place than it is nowadays I think anyone would agree.
I bought this wonderful photo and several others from the nice chap who's been selling off the archive of the erstwhile 'Bus & Coach' trade magazine. It instantly appealed as it featured two excellent Premier Travel AEC Reliances with Alexander 'Y Type' bodies when brand new in the mid '60s and the whole scene exuded the Britain of my childhood. Needless to say, the original was black & white but I'd also bought it with a view to colourisation. I'd successfully avoided doing the latter until this last weekend as I thought perhaps it was a trifle ambitious with my levels of patience, equipment and skill. Its true to say that I could have gone on and on with it as many of these things are like a model railway whereby you can never actually declare it to be finished.
Anyway we also get a quiz aspect with this one. For bonus points which town do we see 1966 built FCE 132D and its duplicate powering away from? The adjacent Ford Anglia has a Manchester registration, but that's no real guarantee of it being in the North West.
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan at sunset. Shot from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast part of the city.
Shot from here 12 min. later: "The Living Daylights"; www.flickr.com/photos/60785624@N07/9257851036
See other sunset images in my "Sunsets" album.
Lee, R., photographer. (1942) Lineup of tourist courts at Phoenix, Arizona. United States Maricopa County Phoenix Arizona, 1942. Feb. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2017817576/.
Restoration and colourisation by Ian Betley (November 2022).
Fantasy colourisation of a Monarch butterfly in the butterfly garden at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
See this image in other colours: "Neon"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/8248995404/
See other butterfly images in my "Butterflies" set: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157632179628200/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld with remote shutter release, auto focus, master pixel size 14.6 (now 11.4 MP)
Processing: cropped along all sides; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; some specks removed with the retouch tool
Fantasy colourisation of the sky at sunset-time in Les Sherman Park in Regina, Saskatchewan.
See related images in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.1 MP)
Processing: cropped along all sides into 4 x 6 format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Thumbing through the old 1970's Northern Counties book this morning I came across a picture of one of the Nottingham City Transport AEC Swifts. These buses attracted my interest from the day I became aware of their existence. I can remember a couple of efforts at sketching them as a teenager too.
Northern Counties were definitely on the ball with their double deck designs and I particularly liked their offerings on early Fleetlines, but they seemed to get into a tizzy when it came to single deckers. The body on these Swifts was quite like nothing else, but they did have a not to Nottingham's then current styling ideas. I just make the latter as an observation rather than a compliment. The result was quite a massive looking single deck bus.
Time tells us that NCT didn't really get on with their Swifts and that they were sold on to another AEC loving municipal, Grimsby Cleethorpes Transort.
The original of this image was of course black & white. The resultant colourisation isn't brilliant, but in my defence, the available image scan was pretty poor too.
This was piece of graffiti I came across in Ulverston, Cumbria UK. I was really struck by the art, particularly because it reminded me of the origami in the film Blade Runner. I did some post production work to selectively colour the artwork and bring out the detail in the bricks.
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Fantasy colourisation of the upper storeys of Cooper Place, an office tower occupied by the provincial Ministry of Finance, on the northwest corner of the intersection of Albert St. & College Ave. in Regina, Saskatchewan. Shot from the grounds of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum on the southeast corner of the intersection.
Shooting info: JPEG by accident - I intended to shoot RAW; handheld, auto focus, 15.9 MP
Processing: colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Fantasy colourisation of the playful clouds and sky over Regina, Saskatchewan at sunset-time.
Caption inspired by the 1979 Robert Hazard song, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".
See other sunset images in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/w...
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 14 MP)
Processing: tilted slightly; cropped along the top & bottom into 4 x 6 format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Fantasy colourisation of the sky at sunset time in Regina, Saskatchewan. Shot facing north on Fleet Street in the southeast area of the city.
When I arrived at this spot 15 min. earlier to shoot the setting sun, there were beautiful pink and gold tones in the west sky. That was when I discovered that there was no battery in my camera! Drove home to fetch it and returned to this spot, but alas, by this time, the beautiful colour tones in the west were all but gone. However, there was colour in the north sky, and this image was caught.
See other sunset images in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 14.2 MP)
Processing: cropped along the top into 4 x 6 format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Fantasy colourisation of the sky at sunset in Regina, Saskatchewan. Shot from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast area of the city.
See more sunset images in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 15 MP)
Processing: cropped slightly along the top, colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Taken from a hot air ballon travelling away from the beautiful city of Bath over what looked from 2000 feet to be some form of concrete pipe factory
Scattered across the city like relics from a bygone era, Edinburgh’s police boxes have long since retired from active duty. Originally installed from 1932 onwards, these cast-iron sentinels were once part of a highly organised communications network for patrolling officers. Most were designed by City Architect Ebenezer MacRae and manufactured by Carron Ironworks of Falkirk — the same foundry famous for producing everything from cannons to cookware.
Each box was a tiny outpost: equipped with a phone line to headquarters, a chair, a kettle, and a modest sink. That sink — often dated to the early 1930s — served a multi-purpose role: for washing up, grabbing a quick drink, or more dubiously, as a makeshift urinal. The boxes didn’t include a proper toilet, so officers on the beat had to make do, armed only with a bottle of bleach and a stiff upper lip.
On winter nights, the boxes offered slight relief from the cold with a one-bar electric fire or oil heater. They also doubled as secure holding spots for the occasional drunken troublemaker until backup arrived.
Most of these boxes have now been sold off and found new lives — as coffee kiosks, tour guide hubs, or simply as curiosities parked on street corners. Their sirens are long gone, but they remain a unique feature of the city’s architectural and policing heritage.
As one local site reports, there’s even a rumour from the 1970s — when female officers began using the boxes — that one unfortunate woman managed to break the sink. Whether that’s fact or just a cheeky bit of gallows humour from the boys in blue remains delightfully unclear.
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The Body Parts:
Head: LeLutka – Evo X – Raven- 3.1 – BoM
Body: eBody – Reborn – BoM
Halo Horns: ERSCH & Petrichor – Markelus Flower – Full-Point Sep – Fade HUD – [Midight Order – August 2023]
Hair: MINA – Samara – Ombres & Ombres Extra – [FaMESHed – August 2023]
Eyes: S H I M M – CXLV – Set II – Evo X Eye Applier
The Beauty Parlour:
Face: Autograph – Nancy – Evo X – No Brows – Sienna
Skin: Velour – Ipanema Body – Legacy – Curvy – Sienna
Eyeshadow: GOREGLAM – Illusion – Eyeshadow – Evo X
Lipstick – LUCCI – Spring Babe – Lips – Evo X – ADVX
Body Shine: This Is Wrong – Droplets Shine 3D
At the Boutique:
Bikini – ERSCH & Petrichor – Fleuria – Fae HUD – [The Warehouse Sale – August 2023]
Time to Accessorise:
Armlets: MICHAN – Charlene Armlets – Champagne
Belly Chain: Orsini – Sarah Belly Chain
Setting the Scene:
Pose: FOXCITY – Bebe Bento Pose Set
Backdrop: VISERA – Hidden Oasis Dream
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ERSCH & Petrichor:
Markelus Flower – This come sin a pack with five different options of the halo style horns. This is dependent on the points touching, being separated, or being fully closed. I chose the separated for this because I really do love seeing the points, and having that small separation between the two, for me it gives it more character.
Fleuria – This bikini set comes with a options on the HUD to change the colours of the Bra, panties, and collar separately, along with an option for the gemstones, giving you endless possibilities of colourisation.
Looking like a rather poor colourisation, this is in fact a recent scan of a partially degraded colour print. As I've said before, I prefer to go back to negatives, but as this presented itself a few days ago, I thought I'd run it through the scanner.
The coach is of course one of the small batch of AEC Reliances (all but one a 'grant coach') which entered the Derby municipal fleet under the management of AEC enthusiast Gerald Truran. Whilst they spent a fair proportion of their time working on former 'Blue Bus' services, the Reliances did get out and about on a fair bit of Private Hire. Derby Corporation had aquired the late lamented operator from Willington, but virtually all the rolling stock perished in a garage fire very early on in the new era, necessitating additional vehicles at short notice.
Here in the early '80s, I encountered Supreme 'Express' bodied NNN 11P at Chester's Little Roodee Coach park. All of these 'NNN' Reliances were '760 powered with 5 speed semi-auto transmission.