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Well, Gregory Peck really - a screen icon in his most iconic role.
Restored and coloured for you by internationally unknown restorer and all-round good egg, Billyfish Photographic Art
Annie, seven, and one-year-old Nellie, sit sad and hungry on sacking outside their house in Spitalfields. They were among ten children born to single mother Annie Daniels. Five of their siblings died in childhood.
Picture from an excellent article
Coloured by Billyfish Photographic Art
A fabulous image of Harvey Lee from 1936, again the original image and far more information can be found at the excellent Queer Music Heritage Site (www.queermusicheritage.us/f-lee-harvey2.html). This image is claimed as being taken byJames Kriegsmann rom NYC.
To colourise, I greyscaled the image, uniform coloured the border and removed some slight imperfections from the original image.
As always, no offence is intended against either the original or current copyright owner, but is shown purely as my artistic interpretation of the original image.
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.
A little bit of time off over the Easter break has seen a few more colourisations commenced and some of those finished too.
Harping on again about the old days, cost of photography, lack of skill and knowledge etc, I found myself with an inordinate amount of sub-standard images. As its obviously not now possible to go back and have another go nowadays, tinkering with the aged results can provide hours of cheap entertainment!
The accompanying picture of the Willowbrook bodied Devon General AEC Regent V hadn't got much going for it as it was a 'grab shot', taken into the sun without any opportunity to alter any settings. The resultant b&w negative was un-sharp and 'muddy'. Hopefully colourising it has brought a bit of life back to it.
'Mediumweight' AV470 engined CTT 518C was pounding up the climb out of Teignmouth on the coastal service to Exeter when I took the photo some 45 years ago in 1977. The old girl was making a good fist of it even if her dishevelled appearance would give a different impression. I've no idea whether she made it into full 'NBC Poppy Red' garb.
This is an image of (I think) a British Impersonator, named Eric Knight. From the look of the image I would place this as late 1940's. Again if anyone has any further information about this impersonator, I would love to hear from you.
I found the original from a sale on e-bay, I cleaned the image, despeckled it slightly and reverted to greyscale for colourisation. The quality of the subsequent image really leant this to colourisation and the results are shown here side by side.
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.
Whilst there were plenty of half cab double deckers around in my youth, half cab single deckers were few and far between in my home area. The world was a much bigger place back then and you'd no way of knowing (as a child) what was going on outside your normal sphere of activity. Anyway, I could count the number of such vehicles I recall seeing in my formative years on one hand until PMT hired a bunch of Birmingham Corporation Tiger PS2s to cover for Roadliner deficiencies.
So, why am I saying this. Half cab single deckers have always been something I could take or leave, they held no really special place in my heart as an enthusiast and probably don't to this day. However . . . a short while ago I acquired this crisp works black & white print of a Harrington bodied AEC Regal III (with dorsal fin coachwork, not that you can really make it out) and I thought, that's really a thing of beauty.
OHA 298 had been new in May 1950 to Gliderways of Smethwick before they switched to underfloor engined coaches as was the general trend.
My colourisation.
"Saints In Colour"
Showing how the Wallingford Screen might have looked in the medieval period - with a 21st century twist. The Cathedral has worked in close partnership with Hogarth, a WPP agency, to explore ground-breaking techniques for bringing history to life, using the latest technology from Panasonic and Epic Games.
Cutting edge scanning and projection techniques using Reality Capture software will bring to life the 15th century screen and 19th century statues with a millimetre accurate 3D scan and re-colourisation, based on historic research by Dr James Alexander Cameron. The colours have been produced by artist Amara Por Dios, and the technology was used to train apprentices in WPP’s Creative Technology Apprenticeship programme, which aims to diversify the emerging technology workforce. St Albans Cathedral is committed to social justice, so we are excited to bring the statues to life in a racially diverse way, reflecting where each of the saints depicted came from.
very much attracted to this bicycle.... at the Car Free Day event.... some peoples say that orange color mean the fastest.
---------- Maybe you have question why there were so much motorcycle at that kind of event ? At this moment, only car being prohibited to enter the area since it's "CAR" free day. Maybe next time they should announce this "COMBUSTION ENGINE FREE DAY" so only FOOD POWERED VEHICLES should enter here... ;-))
No correspondence.
Am I doing it right Chicken 62? ;)
Photograph colourisation before Photoshop - a hand-painted outdoors portrait of a Saxon Landsturmmann from 4. Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon 'Chemnitz' (XIX. 22).
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Notes.
Grenzschutztruppe.
This is a colourisation that I did for a dear friend of mine.
The picture is of her grandfather (second from left) who, along with the other three young men here, died a few months after it was taken.
Shot down over France.
What I did not realise when I was working on it was that this was one of only two pictures the family have of Joe and that they had never seen him in colour. It was an honour and a real privilege to work on it.
Lest we forget.
Another image from the excellent Queer Music Heritage site.
There is a small article on this relatively unknown Impersonator here.
ns2.queermusicheritage.us/fem-arts3.html
The original 1971 image has been despeckled, the overlay text "Lori" has been removed with the "healing tool" and of course colourised.
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 effort by Stephen Arrandale to breathe life into an old black & white image. Funnily enough, with more buildings, scenery and sky this looks more like an old 1970s colour postcard.
So here is a fairly restrained version of an unidentified class 37 waiting departure with the return service to Glasgow Queen Street. The turnaround must have been quite slow as I managed to scramble up to a few vantage points (including McCaig's Tower) before we returned south.
It was a bustling harbourside back then - I suspect the scene at Oban has changed a little.
British Women's Auxiliary Air Force nurses, Leading-Aircraftwoman Myra Roberts (Left), Corporal Lydia Alford (Centre) and Leading-Aircraftwoman Edna Birbeck (Right) in front of a RAF C-47 air-ambulance. (Bazenville, France, 13 June 1944)
Air Ambulance Medical Orderlies were some of the first Allied personnel to land in Normandy after the invasion, evacuating wounded soldiers back to England and delivering much needed supplies. The brave nurses, who were part of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), flew on Royal Air Force transport planes that were not marked as medical and were open to German fighter attacks. The WAAF "Flying Nightingales", as they were called by the press, helped rescue an estimated 1,559 casualties from France by the end of June.
Original Image Source: External link
F/Lt Devon S A, Royal Air Force official photographer
Wikipedia, (Public Domain)
Crop, repair, colorize, upscale: RyanN81
Information Source: External link
Another one of Stephen Arrandale's colourisation efforts using my old B&W original of 45112 "The Royal Army Ordnance Corps" under the vast shed of St Pancras
In-between other hobby type occupations like scanning friends' photo collections, I'm still occasionally knocking out the odd colourisation, something which I find therapeutic.
Part of the aim of learning to do such was to be able to represent lost operators and their varied liveries from my own area. Needless to say, the use of other peoples material is necessary and I'll make a point of crediting them if I'm aware. Unfortunately, this print came with no such information.
Browns Motor Co. of Tunstall (Stoke on Trent) was once one of the area's largest independent operators. Not unexpectedly they settled on a brown livery. In the early 1950s they were acquired by PMT, and with that purchase came the fleet and the garage in Scotia Road. The latter then became PMT's Burslem premises.
JVT 16 was a Duple bodied Daimler CWA6 allocated to the firm by The Ministry of Supply who deemed Browns sufficiently important as to deserve both new double deckers and new (Bedford) singles. JVT 16 arrived in 1945 just as WW2 was drawing to a close. Its seen here in Burslem about to head for Leek. PMT took this bus into stock and gave it a new body.
Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph.
Picture from an excellent article
Coloured by Billyfish Photographic Art
Marie-Pierre Pruvot, otherwise known as "Bambi" in her performing days at Le Carrousel in Paris. A transsexual pioneer (having transitioned in 1960).
The quality of the original image made this a very simple but effective colourisation.
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.
We stayed at the Best Western in Prague, which was situated just around the corner from this shot. It was around a 15 minute walk to the Old Square but far enough away from the hustle & bustle of city life. Decided to practice my selective colourisation skills on this one.
Theres nothing where he used to lie
My inspiration has run dry
Thats whats going on, nothings right, Im torn
Im all out of faith, this is how I feel
Im cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
Im wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
Im all out of faith, this is how I feel
Im cold and Im ashamed bound and broken on the floor
Youre a little late, Im already torn
*** Explored ! :) ***
One of the first colourisations I undertook when learning the dark art was this Plaxton official view. It depicts one of the 1970 built Panorama Elite bodied Leyland Leopards for the then huge touring organisation that was Wallace Arnold.
If I've calculated correctly using BLoTW, VUB 385H was one of 15 similar coaches delivered to WA that year.
Terraced House in Coldstream in the Scottish Borders
Coldstream is a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. A former burgh, Coldstream was where the Coldstream Guards, a regiment in the British Army, originated.
Coldstream lies on the north bank of the River Tweed in Berwickshire, while Northumberland in England lies to the south bank, with Cornhill-on-Tweed the nearest village. At the 2001 census, the town had a population of 1,813, which was estimated to have risen to 2,050 by 2006 The parish, in 2001, had a population of 6,186.
Coldstream is the location where Edward I of England invaded Scotland in 1296. In February 1316 during the Wars of Scottish Independence, Sir James Douglas defeated a numerically superior force of Gascon soldiery led by Edmond de Caillou at the Skaithmuir to the north of the town. In 1650 General George Monck founded the Coldstream Guards regiment (a part of the Guards Division, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army). It is one of two regiments of the Household Division that can trace its lineage to the New Model Army. Monck led the regiment to London, helping to enable the Restoration of King Charles II.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Coldstream was a popular centre for runaway marriages, much like Gretna Green, as it lay on a major road (now the A697). A monument to Charles Marjoribanks (1794–1833), MP for Berwickshire, whose ancestral home was in nearby Lees, stands at the east end of the town, near the Coldstream Bridge. Alec Douglas-Home (1903–95), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964, is buried in the churchyard of the ruined Lennel parish church, just outside the village.
Notable buildings in the town include the marriage house, where weddings were conducted, The Hirsel, which is the family seat of the Earls of Home, and Coldstream Town Hall, which is used as a library and registration office.
Each year, during the first week of August, Coldstream hosts a traditional "Civic Week" where it includes historical aspects of the town's history such as the Torchlight procession and horse-rides to the Battle of Flodden battlefield [Wikipedia]
Whilst researching online about British FI Tommy Rose (www.flickr.com/photos/23638019@N05/8054026007/in/photostream). I found this article on the Brighton "Our Story" website (www.brightonourstory.co.uk/newsletters/summer06/tales.htm) and this rather precious image of (to at least myself) unknown Female Impersonator, Gary Webb, who formed a partnership with Sonny Dawkes briefly in the post WW2 years.
Research has also identified a pantomime partnership with Lee Stevens, who seems also went by the name of Alan Avid (www.flickr.com/photos/23638019@N05/6736604981/in/set-7215...) in this article here (www.britishmusichallsociety.com/index/leestevens.pdf)
Rather than simply lift the image to share here, I have attempted one of my colourisation attempts. The Brighton Story article whilst brief is a precious little find and provides a small window on a very different age.
As always, if the subjects family and/or current copyright holders object to my reproduction of this image I will gladly remove.
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.
British and Canadian pilots of No.242 Squadron posing with Squadron Commander Douglas Bader (centre of photo) at RAF Duxford (Duxford, England, Sep 1940).
Squadron Commander Douglas Bader (Centre),
In 1931, Bader was involved in an aircraft crash that resulted in both legs being amputated from the knee. Prosthetic limbs and rehabilitation allowed him to return to flying in June 1932. Bader was involved in the battles over Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Canal Battles. On August 1941 after engaging six German BF-109s alone, shooting down two during the dogfight, he was shot down over France and captured. After a number of failed escape attempts at a German "Stammlager Luft" (Main-camp Air), he was later imprisonment at the 'Offizierslager IV-C' (Schloss Colditz) where Bader spent the rest of the war. He was freed from captivity in April 1945 by Allied forces. He was credited with 20 air victories.
Pilot Officer William "Willie" McKnight (Left)
McKnight was a Canadian Hawker Hurricane fighter pilot during the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. McKnight was killed-in-action on January 1941 over France. 17 air victories are credited to McKnight.
Flight Lieutenant Eric Ball (Right).
Ball fought during the battles over Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and in North Africa. During a sandstorm in North Africa, Ball was forced to land in German held lines where he was captured. At the end of the war Ball was released by the Allies forces. He had 6 air victories. Ball was killed in a Gloster Meteor F3 jet fighter accident in January 1946.
Original Image Source: External link
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Bader Information Source: External link
McKnight Information Source: External link
I rummaged this picture out a few days ago, spurred on by a bit of a debate which is going on locally at the moment. For months, the sponsor of the town's football team and supplier of their coach, has seen fit to park it (a tri-axle Scania) in almost the same place I photographed HBU 685D back in about 1976/7. Needless to say, its causing a bit of consternation with the neighbours and drivers who're struggling to see round it. Anyway, my point is that there is little new under the sun and a precident for everything it seems.
Anyway, the somewhat battered Plaxton Panorama 1 bodied AEC Reliance would have only been about ten years of age at the time, and already its body is getting long in the tooth. The chassis would probably have had years of life left in it, but re-bodying wasn't seen as a solution by many. I'm guessing that the Certifying Officer would have seen to it that this once classy coach would soon end its PSV days, if it hadn't already done so.
My recollection is that there was either a carnival or a dance troupe meet nearby on the day I took the photo, so 'HBU' could have been privately owned.
BLoTW lists the coach as a 590 powered Reliance which had been new to Janes of Wembley in june of 1966. I assume that 'BU' was one of those registration marks which emigrated from the London area as some Yelloway Reliances carried those letters in the mid '70s.
My photo, my colourisation.