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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
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Wolverhampton garage, but in 1971 it was allocated to Dudley Garage, hence its transfer to WMPTE in 1973. 4928 was withdrawn by WMPTE in January 1976, and was sold in March 1976 to Birds Commercial Motors at Stratford-on-Avon for scrap.
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)!
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
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.
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.
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.
This photo in B&W form came into my possession if I recall correctly via the PMT archive, having already been scanned by someone else into digital form. Regrettably, when I came to attempt a colourisation, I found disappointlingly that it was of very low resolution. However, the subject matter spurred me on!
The Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd. of Woodhouse Street Stoker on Trent were the worlds largest customer for the Daimler Roadliner. In addition to all the buses they bought, they also took six coaches. The 1967 delivery comprised three with Plaxton Panorama 1 bodies, whilst the following year saw three (as here) with Duple's Commander III. If nothing else, they were imposing machines for the day. If the buses led short and often ignoble lives, the coaches served for an even shorter time, about four years from memory.
Here numerically the middle one of the 1968 Roadliner coaches, PVT 101F, makes its way along Woodhouse Street past the old Tramway power house seemingly being driven by an engineering foreman. It appears to be hoping to make the trip across country to Great Yarmouth which would be about a 500 mile round trip from Stoke with pick-ups.
German pilot Alfred Bäder* from Jasta 65 (on the right leaning against the wing) poses next to his Fokker D.VII fighter. August to November 1918.
Unfortunately somewhat degraded, this photo offers a clear view of what made this particular aircraft famous among modelers: a rendition of a scene taken from an old Medieval German fairy tale called “The Seven Swabians”.
In the tale, 7 Swabians decide to travel the world carrying with them a long spear for protection. Among other adventures, one day they meet a sleeping hare which they take for a monster. Mustering all their courage they charge the hare but the later easily escapes, whereupon they realize they were once again fooled. Apparently, the whole point of the tale is to make fun of the people from the old Duchy of Swabia.
The aircraft has two distinct scenes painted on each side of the fuselage, one showing the Swabians seeing the hare and the one in this photo showing them charging the escaping animal. Behind the cockpit is the House of Württemberg Coat of Arms.
Uffz Alfred Bäder joined Jasta 65 from Jastaschule 2, serving with the unit from 31 August 1918 to 11 November 1918. During this period he scored two victories, both over Salmson fighters, one on October 2 and another on November 8, 1918. He was wounded in combat on September 4.
*Originally, the pilot was thought to be Wilhelm Scheutzel but it is now known that it was Alfred Bäder.
Note: Although models are usually painted in bright new colours, when this photo was taken this aircraft was clearly worn out with the mottled pattern on the wings barely visible and even a flat tire. Given the choice, I always prefer, if possible, to keep true to the photo so I kept the colours faded.
Original’s source unknown
Perhaps the most bitty of all the colourisations I've yet attempted, primarily because the bus isn't filling the screen and there's a fair bit going on around besides. This one was at least aided by being a more crisp 35mm shot, taken with my trusty Zorki 4k rangefinder camera. It represented my first venture into the format though Ilford FP4 film was still my preference. Unfortunately the Zorki had a nasty habit of exposing one side of the frame a little more than the other. Still, to me it represented a step change from what I'd been used to.
This scene shows Pooles of Alsagers Bank Willowbrook bodied Leyland Leopard, XRE 912H turning off Barracks Road, Newcastle under Lyme, into The Ironmarket in 1979. The Ironmarket was at the time, and had been for years previously, a major gathering point for local bus services, but nowadays its largely a pedestrian zone with no through traffic.
XRE 912H was withdrawn at a relatively young age, allegedly due to body frame corrosion . . . this was of course still in the era of The Certifying Officer, the man from the ministry who was god. If he proclaimed the bus wasn't in the best of health structuraly (whether it was or not) his word went and the bus was doomed as a PSV! The bus passed upon withdrawal to a dance troupe from the Penkridge area.
Ferrari 599 aparcado en la zona financiera de Estocolmo. Justo detrás el moderno edificio del Banco de Suecia
Parked Ferrari 599 in the financial zone of Stockholm. Just behind the modern building of the Bank of Sweden
Several of the former Lancashire Municipal fleets had a flirtation with Leyland's rear engined Panther chassis. Liverpool Corporation was one, as was neighbouring Southport. Both those two operations were merged into the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive which was originally formed in 1969. Metro Cammell bodied FKF 910F would have been a mere two years old. By the time I caught up with it here in Liverpool city centre circa 1978 it would have been approaching ten years of age and probably hadn't much longer to go. If memory serves me correctly, I was in the city on a Geography trip from school and enjoying that 'free time' both we and the teachers looked forward to.
This is a colourisation of my own murky un-sharp original black & white shot, the latter version of which appeared elsewhere in my Flickr pages many moons ago.
I reckon a young Katherine Hepburn may well have been a Bowie fan - I know I am and could not resist it.
. . . or so I thought.
North Wales independent Whiteways, not unsurprisingly, used white as their livery. They were somewhat in advance of the modern trend to have 50% of the country's remaining PSVs in bland white (with stickers if you're 'lucky'). Back in the mid '70s when I took the original b&w of their ex Warrington Corporation PD1 DED 797, white was novel and unusual.
I'm pretty sure I would have given a report on how I came to take this picture with my original posting of it some time ago, so I won't bore with the detail again. Suffice to say that I was on one of the most enlightening Geography field study trips from secondary school!
Something a little different as I have attempted to renovate the original digital image (on the left) before my colourisation interpretation.
I found this image on The Queer Music Heritage (www.queermusicheritage.us/f-ross-robbie.html).
There is some manual scratch removal, blurring and some selective despeckling.
For more information on Robbie. there is a lovely interview with Robbie on David de Alba's site
www.david-de-alba.com/Ross.htm
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.
1961 (colourised). Spurred on by others on Flickr, notably TrainsandTravel and Katerfelto, ( if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!) this is a colourised version of a black & white shot of an identified 'King', possibly either 6007 KING WILLIAM III or 6027 KING RICHARD I, near West Ruislip in the late summer of 1961.
West Ruislip is on the Great Western and Great Central Joint Line not far out of London and was the route taken by Great Western, and later Western Region, trains from London to Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Birkenhead. The train with reporting number M16 is (was!) the 1.10pm from London Paddington to Birkenhead.
Many thanks to Keith Long for providing me with the information regarding the time and destination of M16. And to Geoff Plumb for telling me where I was at the time.
This is my first attempt at colourisation and it's by no means perfect. It took me ages to do – in fact I was so engrossed in it that I was up half the night working on it.
However, warts and all, I think that it's sufficiently presentable to be launched on an unsuspecting public!
Thanks to Geoff Plumb ( see his SmugMug site: plumbloco.smugmug.com/ ) for improving my ham-fisted efforts for me.
Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan, just before sunset. Shot from the south end of Prince of Wales Drive in the southeast area of the city.
Do you see an "A-Okay" sign in the clouds, like a thumb & index finger making a circle?
See other shots from this location in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, master pixel size 15.9 (now 14.1 MP)
Processing: cropped into 4 x 6 format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3; some areas blackened by retouching
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 the same image, cropped & with different processing: "All Ablaze"; www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/9238463052/
See other sunsets in my "Sunsets" album: www.flickr.com/photos/joan-marie/sets/72157634112806178/
Shooting info: RAW; handheld, auto focus, 15.9 MP
Processing: colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3, saturation readjusted in Aviary; uncropped
A Musketier from (most probably) Kgl. Württembergisches Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 51 sporting a rarely seen ersatz bayonet 56 on his kar98. Probably loaned to him for the photo as he has another, more common ersatz bayonet hanging from his belt.
Note: Corduroy pants could have been grey or brown. Concerning the troddel, the ‘Stengel’ yellow colour was extrapolated from the original photo’s grey tones given that the other possibility was red which should appear as almost black. Straps seem to have been white with a red number but light reflected on the fabric might be inducing one in error. Given the existing doubts, the colours chosen for all of the above should be considered for demonstration purposes only.
Unused postcard by Photo-haus "Krieg" in Urach, Württemberg from the collection of S. Wouters.
For addicional information on this photo visit the b&w original at paranoid_womb's photostream.
Fantasy colourisation of the sky over Regina, Saskatchewan, just before the sun set 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 "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 along the bottom into 16 x 9 (HD) format; colour & light adjusted in Aperture 3
Another colourisation of one of my very early photographic attempts. Needless to say, back in 1977 my world was black and white as that was all I could half afford.
On this particular day out, courtesy of the PMT / Trent joint service from Hanley we were able to have a nose around the bus station and then go out to Olive Grove garage on foot. At the latter we were readily allowed admission. There were rows of withdrawn AEC Regents on the adjoining parking ground, some Leyland Titans and even the odd Atlantean. Parked on one of the garage's internal roads was DWB 53H, one of Sheffield Corporation's final AECs in the form of a 691 engined Swift. I always thought these PRV/Roe bodied machines to be handsome buses, even in the slightly odd PTE shade of light brown. Some 45 years later, it was pleasant to 're-visit' it and give it a coloured hue from the comfort of my own home.
A series of mugshots from New South Wales in the 20's coloured for you by Billyfish Photographic Art.
The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. A considerably less self-assured Ellis appears in the NSW Criminal Register of 29 August 1934 (no. 206). His convictions by then include ‘goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, receiving and throwing a missile.
Taken from a gallery of public domain images from the New South Wales Police Department that were taken in the 1920′s. This special photograph selection were mostly taken at the Central Police Station, Sydney and compared with the subjects of typical prison mug shots, the subjects of the Special Photographs seem to have been allowed to compose themselves for the camera as they wanted.
These public domain images reveal a lot more than a typical mugshot. The suspects poses look as if they could be from a fashion magazine. Most look disheveled and deranged, but some look very guilty. Their hand in pockets, hats tipped to the side, and their eyes scowling at the camera. They look like movie characters from a Dick Tracey film, with the crime they committed still fresh on their mind.
Again an early colourisation attempt of French transexual pioneer Coccinelle.
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.
1950's photo of Female Impersonator, Les Lee. Original on the left, colourised on the right.
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.
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.
The PMT archive again provides the colourisation material for tonight's posting.
Back in 1961 when the Weymann 'semi-lowbridge' bodied Leyland Atlantean 828 KVT was just about new, it had the dubious honour of being the last bus to leave Goldenhill garage. The latter had originally been a tram depot, the most northerly on the Potteries Electric Traction system. With the cessation of tram services to Goldenhill in 1927, it was given over to motorbus operation and remained as such for nearly 35 years.
Following closure, the small allocation was split between Burslem and Biddulph garages and the building sold to a haulage contractor who transported Tate & Lyle sugar. In the early '70s it was finally demolished and replaced by a new 'Mobil' branded service station. Eventually that too succumbed and the plot of land now has flats and housing built on it.