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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
This is 27001 running into Crianlarich on 07/05/79 with the Fort William sleeper. This image in my collection is a B&W negative, and having seen various colourisation images in Facebook groups recently using AI, I thought I'd have a go. I'm quite impressed it gets the majoirty of the colours correct, however it's not without issues that need correcting - it left the window frames blue, couldn't cope with the driver at the window, and the guy on the platform partly behind the station staff, and the grey platform surface & greenery to the right of the loco have shapes/artefacts in them (I have redone the platform just using the platform from the B&W image). Plus the known issues with teXt & numbers... But apart from that it's great ! Lol.
Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore and the blurred gondola. Something of a cliché and shot by many who visit Venice. I must admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for it and it was definitely on my hit list. Its difficult to do anything original with the infinite compositions available so, I thought I'd try merging a mono with a colour image, effectively resulting in a sort of 'selective colourisation'. The bright blue waterproof coverings of the moored gondola's are a striking characteristic so it's something I wanted to include. Maybe not a unique image but I might claim "Gondolification" as my own. The act of photographing a moving gondola! It might catch on, you never know!
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 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
BR 5MT 73052 charging up towards Coombe Down Tunnel with empty coal wagons on the 2 April 1963. This was the second of two days I spent here, and this was probably the first warm sunny day since the big freeze. I was trying out the 120 Kodak Cresta camera I got at Christmas, and this was on the second film
I have posted this before and reposting after an AI colourisation and clean-up of the scan from the negative
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.
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).
Perhaps the last place to see narrow gauge wagons being emptied into standard gauge ones in the UK was at Thos. E. Gray's Isebrook Quarry at Burton Latimer. Silica sand is being tipped here for transfer to the nearby works on 10 August 1978, the locomotive being a former Joseph Arnold (Leighton Buzzard) Simplex, MR5881/35. The standard gauge line had been for internal use only since the connection with BR had been cut in 1948. Permission to visit was always refused, but a handy public footpath was available to view proceedings. I'm surprised that the whole operation was not replaced by lorries years before!
The works closed in May 1982 and the site subsequently cleared; MR5881 was preserved.
A colourisation using Google Gemini AI.
Pentax SP1000/50mm
An AI colourisation of a previous upload, this is apparently a cut down Leyland Octopus rather than a Steer as first thought. Either way, it was formerly employed by Dunlop and seen here at Cowley Road in May 1984, moving Bristol VR 318. There are a few quibbles with the colouring, but looks generally to be OK.
Pentax SP1000/50mm
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
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.
1986 British Telecom Leyland Freight Rover Sherpa seen in Union Street, Dunstable when only a month old in the May. It was last taxed in April 1996.
A Google Gemini AI colourisation of an earlier upload.
Pentax SP1000/50mm
Ilford FP4
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
Midland Red D9 5332 was allocated to Stafford for all of it's working life, from July 1963 until July 1977, seen here on a town service in 1970.
Another Google Gemini AI colourisation from a black & white negative in my collection.
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
55008 'The Green Howards', slips out of Edinburgh Waverley with the 10.20 Aberdeen-Kings Cross on 22 January 1978. Although scrapped in 1982, one cab survives and has been fitted with simulator equipment.
A colourisation using Google Gemini AI of a previous black and white upload. Nameplate now restored, thanks to 'Dave McDigital' (see below).
Pentax SP1000/50mm
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.
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!
Unknown photographer.
Class 416/2 5774 arrives at the station leading a Cannon Street to Dartford working on 27 September 1979.
A colourisation of the original black & white negative using Google Gemini AI.
Pentax SP1000/Soligor 105mm
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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.
The last in my little series of Native American photos for the minute...
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Two construction cranes and a fantasy colourisation of the sky at the University of Regina campus in Regina, Saskatchewan.
See what's behind me: "The Glass Tipi"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9245890574/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.6 MP)
Processing: cropped along the top & bottom; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; some spots blackened with the retouch tool
This Old Cadillac (1970s? Cadillac experts please help me here) is used to publicise a bar in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
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The lives of Alexander Croll and John Wright represent one of the most enduring and successful partnerships in the pioneering history of the New South Wales North Coast timber and shipbuilding industries.
To a lesser extent, their early venture also aligned with fellow pioneer John Rodger, laying the foundational roots for the timber communities of the Myall Lakes and Great Lakes regions of NSW, Australia.
The Early Bond: From Glasgow to the Colony
The deep lifelong connection between Alexander Croll and John Wright began across the globe in Scotland.
Born just a few years apart in Banffshire (Wright in May 1835 and Croll in August 1835/1837), the two men moved to Glasgow as youths to train in the demanding trade of shipwrights. During their grueling apprenticeships on the Clyde, Croll and Wright shared living quarters, developing a mutual trust and work ethic that would define their future. Though they initially planned to settle in New Zealand, trade disruptions caused by the New Zealand Wars redirected their ambitions and they moved on to Australia, arriving in New South Wales around 1860–1861 aboard the Lord Worsley.
Like many young men of the era, they first tried their luck panning for gold along the Snowy River. When the goldfields failed to yield a fortune, they relied on their trade skills and journeyed to the dense, untouched coastal forests of the Myall Lakes district.
Pioneering the Myall Lakes (1860s–1872)
Arriving in the Bulahdelah region, Croll and Wright started out in the grueling business of pit-sawing. They soon gained employment at Boolambayte Creek working for Duncan MacRae, who had established the area's first timber mill. The two Scotsmen put their shipwright training to immediate use, constructing vessels—such as the Caledonia—to transport MacRae’s timber. During this period of foundational hard work,
Croll settled down, marrying Eliza Jane MacKay in 1867. By 1872, after years of working alongside MacRae, Croll and Wright were ready to strike out on their own. Partnering with a third skilled associate, John Rodger, they established the first official sawmill at Bungwahl on the top of the Myall Lakes. This industrial site was strategically chosen to allow their flat-bottomed punts and newly built timber vessels easy access to navigable water, ensuring they could ship heavy logs and sawn timber out to the booming Sydney market.
Diverging Paths and Legacies
While the Bungwahl partnership was highly successful, the three pioneers had different long-term geographic ambitions, leading them to amicably divide the business over the next few years.
John Wright sold his share of the Bungwahl sawmill and shipwright business to Croll in 1877 for £2000, having earlier, in 1875, moved to the North Shore of Forster, by 1879 known as Tuncurry. On arrival in Tuncurry Wright leased waterfront land to build a massive new sawmill, slipway, and established John Wright & Son Shipyards, which operated for nearly a century. By 1878 John Wright had also taken up several thousand acres of land just east of Krambach where he built another large sawmill known as Avalon.
The third Bungwahl Mill partner, John Rodger, eventually migrated north as well, moving his sawmilling focus toward the Camden Haven River and Laurieton to tap into new forest reserves.
Alexander Croll remained firmly anchored at Bungwahl. He bought out Rodger and Wright's shares and expanded the Bungwahl mill, running it it as a highly prosperous family empire.
Croll spent the rest of his life at his Bungwahl estate, "Huntley." As he aged, he passed the management of the mill to his capable sons, Alexander Jr. and James (who later expanded the family timber legacy into Dungog as J. Croll & Sons). Alexander Croll passed away at home on August 16, 1917, at the age of 82.
Reflecting the immense respect he commanded, his funeral was the largest ever seen in the district at the time. His coffin was carried 19 miles by river launch to Bulahdelah, where 32 of his sawmill employees formed a solemn guard of honour as he was carried to his final resting place—marking the end of a grand colonial journey that began in a shared Glasgow boarding house room.
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Information, Restoration and colourisation of image by Chat GPT Ai.
There is not much left of this BR Standard 2.6.0 being cut at Woodhams yard in April 1972. The only other locomotive to be scrapped here during the 1970s was GWR 28xx 2.8.0 3817, which was dealt with in 1973.
Pracktica Nova 1/50mm
A colourisation of an earlier upload using Google Gemini AI.
A restored and colourised version of the sepia photo below, taken circa 1914. Photographer and studio unknown.
The subject is Bertha Dorothy Adshead (1909-2002) aged approx. 4 years.
Known affectionately in the family as 'Auntie Dot', she was my third cousin twice removed - our common ancestor was my Great Great Great Great Grandfather !
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.
The original plan was a nice circular walk from Chichester Yacht Club to Dell Quay and back. That turned out to be a very muddy experience and resulted in a trip to Chichester to buy new shoes. The beach at West Wittering was more amenable to walking without getting dirty. However, the sky remained heavy and the breeze was picking up. I think that this mono image of the groynes conveys the atmosphere quite well
AI / Colourisation can almost work. This from a piece of b/w film , an LT Car , in the film it can be identified as #587. Here on Parkers Row with Dockhead in the distance. Abbey Street crossing left and right. The Pub was the "Prince Teck". (CollectionFB)
There are some colourisation programs available I believe, but it is much more interesting to paint vintage photographs by yourself.
So taking the John Bell (1845-1914) image of a father and son, my job was to imagine what it might have looked like in colour during the 1870s. This is clearly a studio portrait and the men would have dressed in their Sunday best. The subjects are leaning on a strange rock of some kind (whether real or not). It has the look of an anvil. I've taken a liberty and shown them wearing blue jeans.
This photograph of the vintage photo was taken by me with the Nikon D850.
Once again I remind people interested in the craft of painting photographs to check out the website and book on "The Art of Handpainting Photographs" by Cheryl Machat Dorskind.
www.cherylmachatdorskind.com/the-art-of-handpainted-photo...