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This is what I saw and bought without hesitation. A fine early example of German photo art. It is in its original frame, 12 x 9 cms, and beautifully presented. You can't really see it in my photograph, but the photo and glass covering it are curved convexly to give it the feel of 3D. This made it difficult to focus. There are little added highlights, such as the "mother of pearl" strips, that just add a little sparkle to the presentation.
When I discussed it with proprietor Andrew Puccetti, he quite rightly pointed out that color photography (using a single plate) only technically became possible from 1906. But this shot had the feel of the 1890s to my (history) eye.
This appears to be a beautifully handpainted black and white print. As for identifying the location, there are a number of clues. "Breitestrasse" is translated literally, "Wide Street". It's the German equivalent of "High Street" in Britain and Australia, or "Main Street" in America. As for the city, "Thorn W. Pr." refers to Thorn in West Prussia (in modern Poland).
There was indeed a genuine method of producing a color print in the 1890s. It was called the Photochrom technique and pioneered by Photoglob Zurich AG. Thousands of copies were produced and sold, and the Germans were the world leaders in this technology. Photochroms taken as three separate monochrome negatives and then printed to form one colour image. Before and after this technology was developed, handpainted colourisation was going on.
It is unlikely this picture is a Photochrom. As we can see it shows evidence of hand retouching (especially of the faces looking towards the camera), and the buildings down the street appear to have been coloured according to a pattern.
* Taschen (probably the most prestigious art publisher in the world) has released a magnificent book on German Photochroms from around 1900.
hyperallergic.com/265657/photochroms-capture-belle-epoque...
* This article also has some supporting information on Photochroms:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom
* Finally, on the history of colour photography try:
blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/a-short-history-of-colo...
Above all, if you see something like this in an antique shop. Buy it!!! I think I got a real bargain.
Gustav Fröhlich and Margarete Lanner in Metropolis (1927)
Part-colourised for Worth1000's "Pleasantville 28" compotition.
... and for Sliders Sunday. HSS!!!
Fantasy colourisation of the ceiling in the lobby of the government-owned T.C. Douglas building in Regina, Saskatchewan. Building design by architects Arnott MacPhail Johnstone of Regina.
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, 15.9 MP
Processing: colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3, one reflection removed with the retouch tool
I don't normally post family photos, but this is one of my great-grandfathers. I'm happy with the colourisation. He was born in 1887 so I guess this would be early 1920s.
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Les Sherman Park in Regina, Saskatchewan. Shot facing west, just before the sun dropped below the horizon. Shows better enlarged; press L.
See the companion image: "Jelly Bean"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9457398262/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.9 MP)
Processing: cropped along the bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; some areas retouched
Just one of the many small things I admire about the British culture. I don't know if they do this in other cultures but often in parks you will find benches and trees dedicated to a lost loved one.
Here I've converted a standard colour RAW file to gray scale (I never shoot black and white in camera because it limits my processing options). From there I work with colour toning and the tone curve to produce a form of colourisation. I am not looking for realistic colours as such, but like a painter trying to create an impression of the scene. This picture contains various shades of yellow, green and blue.
[This is certainly an image that needs to be enlarged for full effect.]
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828, although he was viewed as profoundly inarticulate. He traveled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Eveline (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, after which his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London.
He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He had been championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
A master of history, landscape and marine painting, he challenged the style of the old masters, trailblazing in technique and subject matter.
Described as the ‘father of modern art’ by John Ruskin, Turner often shocked his contemporaries with his loose brushwork and vibrant colour palette while portraying the development of the modern world unlike any other artist at the time.
It is no wonder that Turner became the most celebrated painter in England and that over one hundred and fifty years later, we celebrate contemporary artists of the same innovating spirit through the aptly named Turner Prize.
Before I leave the subject of retrospective colourisations, here's another fairly recent offering. This one shows 478 FCG, a Park Royal bodied AEC Reliance from the late lamented Chiltern Queens fleet which had been new fairly locally to Aldershot and District as a coach. By the time of my photo, circa 1979/80 it had obviously had bus seats substituted, but by then I suspect, its tramping days were over.
The original photo was taken at the 'Reading Stations' terminal and one of the Corporation's new fangled Metropolitan double deckers makes a cameo appearance.
When I thought about what Flickr is for me, I concluded it’s all about passion that sets my heart on fire. I’m always searching for new ideas and new sights that are like a guiding light right in that very heart. I had a photo already that literally is the depiction of that heart on fire albeit with its natural colors not directly in the colors of Flickr. So, I decided to do something I normally don’t do and alter the colors and redo a photo to show my appreciation to Flickr and the whole community.
Something a little different for this evening, harking back to the colourisations I developed a liking for prior to having 30-40,000 negatives to scan!
Regrettably I have no idea who took the original of this photo which appears from time to time on local Stoke on Trent Facebook pages. It depicts three of The City of Stoke on Trent's finest fire engines which were probably based at Burslem fire station (just visible above the leading Dennis) and was more than likely a professionally taken a 'publicity' image. The location is Hamil Road and Port Vale Football Club's new ground is on the right here. The town of Burslem is in the middle distance. I opted to just colour the fire engines themselves as most of the Potteries was black and varying shades of grey in the 1960s!
I tried my hand at selective colourisation... I'm not sure how good it is, but it's the best I could do, using features I rarely use in GIMP! There are obvious flaws but I do like the overall effect and I hope to get better at it.
Fantasy colourisation of the west sky, shot from my yard in Regina, Saskatchewan on Nov. 28, at 5:02 p.m.
Shot 20 seconds later: "Wild Sunset"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/11933477003/
Shot 40 seconds later: "The Remains of the Day"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/11136646603/
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 leave this at zero), 15.9 MP
Processing: saturation & light adjusted in Aperture 3; three spots at the bottom blackened with the retouch tool.
It was difficult for me to find the right colour tones for this image. Processing it took several attempts over several days.
Following an enforced week away from posting by a fault on our land-line, which also took out my ability to connect my computer gubbins to the interweb, I'm back again! That break gave me more opportunity than was good for me to undertake some digital colouring. Several of the items treated aren't my own copyright, so best if I don't share them here. However, I've had a go at a few of my older ones like the accompanying shot back from the days when I could barely afford photography, let alone colour.
This one shows Stonier of Goldenhill's ex Hutchison of Overtown AEC Reliance '470 / Willowbrook, KVD 15E. Whilst the original isn't perfectly sharp, it is one of my better ones from circa 1977 and I think it has responded quite well to colourisation.
'KVD' was the penultimate Stoniers bus which had seen service with the famed Scottish independent, and it served Stonier's reasonably well. Its small engine was a bit of a false economy as it had to be worked hard in the hilly terrain of North Staffordshire. That said, I recall it climbing the notorious Lime Kilm Bank east of Hanley one Saturday with 96 passengers aboard!
The photo was taken alongside the garage on High Street, Goldenhill were coincidentally, I started work 44 years ago today.
It was cold, the sky threatened rain. Welcome to January in Southsea! The shingle beach is not the most enticing of locations on a day like this but I found the site of this red life belt against the sullen sky rather appealling.
Another excellent image from the Female Impersonator section of the Queer Music Heritage Site. This scan is from a "La Carrousel" brochure (a Female Impersonation venue in Paris in the 1940s/50s/60s) from approximately 1956 in "The JD Collection". The performer is Sandy Karina a Female Impersonator I know very little else about and as always would love to here from anyone with more information.
The original can be found here.
queermusicheritage.us/fem-lac4.html.
I cropped the original scan, cloned and healed the text and small insert picture of the performer in male guise and then colourise the resulting.
image. As usual I present the original image to the left for comparison purposes.
Usual disclaimer: I freely admit to taking the image from the above site. If my work causes offense, none is intended. If you are the model and/or copyright owner and object I will gladly remove. Publication here is purely to demonstrate my artistic interpretation of the original.
Disclaimer: The layered colourisation work and digital enhancements to the original are all my own work and any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
This small watercolour self-portrait was created by Turner in 1790 when he was only about 15 years of age. He went on to become a master of history, landscape and marine painting, he challenged the style of the old masters, trailblazing in technique and subject matter.
Described as the ‘father of modern art’ by John Ruskin, Turner often shocked his contemporaries with his loose brushwork and vibrant colour palette while portraying the development of the modern world unlike any other artist at the time.
It is no wonder that Turner became the most celebrated painter in England and that over one hundred and fifty years later, we celebrate contemporary artists of the same innovating spirit through the aptly named Turner Prize.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828, although he was viewed as profoundly inarticulate. He traveled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Eveline (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, after which his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London.
He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He had been championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Les Sherman Park in Regina, Saskatchewan. Shot facing west, just before the sun dropped below the horizon. Shows better enlarged; press L.
See the companion image: "Gumdrop"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9460494077/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, 15.2 MP
Processing: cropped along the bottom into 5 x 7 format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; some spots retouched
Eric Lloyd was billed as "The Forces Sweetheart" during the war and afterwards in revues such as "Soldiers In Skirts", which much has been written about on this stream and elsewhere. According to Roger Bakers, excellent resource "Drag", Eric became a theatrical costumier, when the popularity of such revues waned in the late 1950's/60's.
This image is estimated to be from the late 40's.
Technical Bit:
The original image is seen on the left. For colourisation purposes the image was reduced to greyscale, to enable the colour saturation to take full effect. Some original handwriting has been removed using both clone/healing techniques, as were some of the blemishes on the original image.
Disclaimer: I am not the copyright owner of the original image and my electronic publication is not intended to infringe any such copyright. I seek to make to make no financial gain from the reproduction or the original work. If you are the original copyright owner and wish the image to be removed, please contact myself.
Disclaimer: The digital enhancements to the original are all my own work and any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
Fantasy colourisation of a sunset at the Sen. John Heinz Memorial Lookout beside Pennsylvania Route 15 southbound, overlooking the Tioga dam and part of the borough of Tioga. This lookout area is at the Welcome Center, 7 miles south of the NY/PA border. Shot at 7:32 p.m., local time.
See other sunset images in my "Sunsets" album.
Shooting info: RAW; handheld with remote shutter release, auto focus, master pixel size 14.6 (now 10.9 MP)
Processing: tilted and cropped along the bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Jackie Hayes, appears to be a Female Impersonator from the 1950's who was self-described as "“America’s Foremost Female Impersonator”. There are several other images of this fine illusionist online, particularly the images produced by Anthony Bruno (aka Bruno of Hollywood), but right from my early days of interest in this topic I have admired this performer but the quality of the image was restricted as it seemed to be a scanned image from a Nutrix magazine. The photo was inscribed with the name of "Jackie Hayes" (an example can be found herhttp://vickirene.net/showgirls/showgirls-of-yesterday/jackie-hayes/) and I believed the original photographer was Irving Klaw (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw) and recently a collection of prints was made available for online auction which included a much improved quality version of the image that I have used as the basis of my work.
Once again, more details of Jackie are hard to come by and all that remains are these few images that occasionally pop up on online auction sites, or what little may appear in online reference libraries/archives. As always, only to pleased to hear from anyone who maybe able to shed some more light on this performer.
Technically, I have greyscaled the original image, performed some "healing" and cloning to remove the inscription and then added the colour layers one by one. One is never certain if the colours are accurate and therefore the representation is to my taste and interpretation.
Disclaimer: I am not the copyright owner of the original image and my electronic publication is not intended to infringe any such copyright. I seek to make to make no financial gain from the reproduction or the original work. If you are the original copyright owner and wish the image to be removed, please contact myself.
Disclaimer: The layered colourisation work and digital enhancements to the original are all my own work and any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
Another earlier colourisation attempt of 1950's/60's Female Impersonator Marilyn Marks. This is from a fairly famous set from various publications of the time.
Disclaimer: The layered colourisation work and digital enhancements to the original are all my own work and any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
Merry Christmas to you all my Flickr Friends and may you have a wonderful safe Yuletide (unless you are a turkey)!
This might look like a colourisation of a B&W image, but it is in fact the recovery of a terribly under exposed Kodak colour transparency. It is also unusual to see a picture of a Midland Red bus in West Bromwich's Paradise Street as it is no more. Paradise Street ran from High Street at its junction with Bull Street through to St Michael's Street, but today is long lost under the development of the Kings Square Shopping centre and the current bus station.
Working the 268 - Princess End - West Bromwich - Wolverhampton service is 4928; a 1961 built BMMO D9. This was one of the many Midland Red buses that were transferred to West Midlands PTE in December 1973. 4928 was at the time of this picture allocated to Midland Red's Wolverhampton garage, but in 1971 it was allocated to Dudley Garage, hence its transfer to WMPTE in 1973. 4928 was withdrawn by WMPTE in January 1976, and was sold in March 1976 to Birds Commercial Motors at Stratford-on-Avon for scrap.
Long exposure shot (10s). Shot in RAW, then processed with Silver Efex Pro. I'm not usually a big fan of partial colourisation - but on this one I tried reintroducing colour to the flowing water, to try to bring out the dappled sunlight. I also used cyanotype toning as a contrast.
. . . or, not just another sunset.
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.
Shot 2 min. later: "Blue Sunset"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/13096983693/
See more sunset shots in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Processing: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 14.2 MP)
Processing: cropped along the bottom into 4 x 6 format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
The photographic archive of the former Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd has provided me with several good quality images on which to practice the colourisation hobby. This publicity photo of one of their 1962 intake of 'saloons' being a good example. PMT took 10 of these Leyland Leopards and ten almost identical AEC Reliance '590s. Bodywork was by Willowbrook, but those built on the Leopard chassis were to a slightly lowered overall height to enable them to replace older stock which needed to pass under low railway bridges like the one on Heathcote Street in my home town of Kidsgrove. Their Willowbrook bodies seated 54 . . . once you'd surmounted the four precipitous entrance steps! The odd seat over the more usual 53 in a 36ft bus was a single inward facing one just behind the entrance door on the nearside. This seat was always the place to be for a young enthusiastic lad like me. Both types had 4 speed manual gearboxes, but from talking to drivers of that era, the Leopards were painfully heavy on the handlebars compared to the Reliances. . . neither of which of course had power steering.
The photo was taken in the grounds of Trentham Gardens.
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan at sunset.
Seen for .4 second, from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast area of the city.
Caption inspired by the 1966 Ronald Miller/Bryan Wells soul song, "A Place in the Sun".
Shot 1 min. later: "Autumn Sunset"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/12737717173/
See other sunset shots in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
See more of Regina in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157629409033432/
Shooting info: ultra wide-angle lens set at 15 mm, RAW, handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 11.2 MP)
Processing: tilted, cropped along the bottom, saturation & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Rained most of the day and some colour can return to the gardens.
Very rare for me to mess round with any post-processing so took me a while to remember how to do this (hackneyed) selective colourisation.
Sometimes, trawaling through archives, you come across photos of bus interest, but which also contain more general transport and local history. This one of a corner of Newcastle under Lyme (Staffordshire) was from part of the salvaged PMT archive and would have been taken to show the new inner ring-road which took the A34 out of the town centre in the 1960s.
Whilst I'm reasonably confident about getting the liveries of the PMT and Crosville buses correct, I have to own up to choosing best guess colours for the cars and van pictured. Just about everything bar the church and the road itself has changed in the intervening years.
The Crosville single decker is an ECW bodied Bristol MW, whilst the PMT Willowbrook bodied saloon appears to be one of the unloved Albion Aberdonians.
Again a colourisation from a low-rez download of unknown copyright . . . maybe another Foden publicity shot?
This one shows JAW 334, one of Salopia of Whitchurch (Salop)'s magnificent 1952 Whitsun bodied rear engined Foden PVRF6 observation coaches. In the background can be seen another similar example, but one wearing a slightly different livery application. Foden's own 2 Stroke Diesel provided the equally interesting sound track.
The photograph was taken on Salopia's home turf at 'The Raven', Prees, on the outskirts of Whitchurch. The Raven still stands to this day (though I'm unsure whether its still open) as a remnent of the era of these large pub type hotels which derived much of their trade as a coach refreshment halt. Even now, one of its entrances facing the busy A49 has the legend 'Coach Lounge' over one of its doors.
This is a colourisation of a grainy print. I had some 400 asa film in the camera for a specific job at the time, back at the end of the '70s and needed to finish it off in order to get it processed. It was 'Potters Holidays' and coaches of all sorts called into Hanley Bus station disgorging their passengers and re-loading before departing for multitudes of other places.
Yelloway coaches became a familiar sight here after moving their principal North Staffordshire calling point from Newcastle under Lyme. Very often in the peak season, their services were duplicated and not always by one of their own vehicles. So it was here when Plaxton Supreme bodied AEC Reliance NNC 853P found itself partnered with a Turner's of Bristol Ford R1114 Duple Dominant II. This area of the bus station was at the time 'lay-over' parking, so that would indicate that all the available stands at the coach end were otherwise occupied. Later in time additional departure stands were built here and buses exited via a hitherto lightly used opening onto Birch Terrace (next to the VAS in the background). This whole bus station / multi storey car park and associated shopping precincts have now been buldozed. The present facility, badly laid out, is about half the size on a nearby site.