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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 Sonny Dawkes, who formed a partnership with Tommy Rose in the post WW2 years, in fact there is a caricature of them and other pantomime performers on the V&A website (collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86533/gary-webb-sonny-dawkes-...).
Rather than simply lift the image to share here, I have attempted one of my colourisation attempts. The Brighton Story article indicates that Sonny sadly passed away in June 2006, but it provides a wonderful insight into Female Impersonation in the British during those times.
As always, if the subjects family and/or current copyright holders object to my reproduction of this image I will gladly remove.
A fairly easy headshot to colourise and again quite a common picture of 50's female impersonator, Jackie Gordon
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 second colorised version of the same black & white photo of BR 2MT 2-6-2T 84004 in the bay platform at Oswestry.
This one has had Auto Color Correction and some sharpening applied using Photoshop Elements. The result is that the greenish tinge in version A has gone.
24/04/2020 [GB 1550].
www.flickr.com/photos/trains-travel/49521516461/in/photos...
So many lovely variations in colourisation and patterns on these. And I just love the way the walls flatten their bodies out to maximum the coverage for heat intake.
I thought it was time to look out some more of my old family photos and give them a bit of a 'polish'.
This is my Great Grandfather Norman Jones McAuslan with his 'penny farthing' bicycle taken at the studios of J. Clark of Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Assuming Norman is in his late teens in this picture, the photo would have been taken in the late 1870s.
In his adult life, Norman was a photographer himself with a small studio in Belper, Derbyshire. Sadly, he suffered from tuberculosis and died in Australia in 1905, aged 43.
Points of interest:
A whistle on a lanyard to warn off pedestrians!
No gears or brakes!
A bell (?) hanging from the handlebars.
The narrow, solid tyres.
The boots with gaping soles - but still highly polished!
The completely absurd cast iron chair!
Tired soldiers carry a wounded comrade through the forests of Burma during WWII.
Coloured by Billyfish Photographic Art.
The wee Topolino in Dornoch is settling into the landscape, and the weeds are taking over. Mono conversion in Silver Efex, with the colour popped using selective colourisation.
Happy (and scary spooky) Halloween to everybody.
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Austrian Schwarzlose machine gun mountain unit between Monte Cevedale and the Gran Zebrù, Northern Italy, c. 1917. The Italian Front, known in German as the Gebirgskrieg ("Mountain war"), was the front that saw hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Italy during World War I. After secret promises made in the Treaty of London, Italy entered the war to take Austria-Hungary southern territories. This manoeuvre was intended to be fast and to take the Austrians at another front. The Austrians, however, answered the offensive with trench warfare and gained terrain into Italy, eventually being defeated when general Díaz took command over general Cadorna and pushed over the Veneto. If you want to see more exclusive never-colourised pictures, take a look at www.soldiershop.com/libri/ww1-and-2/1915-1918-la-guerra-i...
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The Schwerer Gustav was a railway gun, the largest-calibre rifled weapon used in combat, the heaviest mobile artillery piece built in terms of overall weight, and that which fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Darłowo as siege artillery for the purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line. Gustav was deployed in the Soviet Union after the Battle of France, where it didn’t see action, where it destroyed a munitions depot. The gun was moved to Leningrad, and may have been intended to be used in the Warsaw Uprising. Gustav was destroyed by the Germans near the end of the war in 1945 to avoid capture by the Red Army.
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Although of poor quality, this photo is extremely interesting given that it seems to portray an actual frontline/combat situation. Something rare, given that most of the best-known Great War ‘combat’ photos are actually behind-the-line re-enactments done for propaganda purposes.
In this case, the soldiers’ body language seems to suggest that they are taking due care not to expose themselves in the somewhat shallow trench or perhaps trying to shelter from incoming artillery as the area appears to have been subjected to heavy shelling. Given that the photo is devoid of a date or location, one can only speculate as to the circumstances.
Original property of Wooway1 Collection.
The German crew of a captured British Mark IV ‘male’ tank named ‘Heinz’ pose for the camera, May 1918.
The officer in the center is said to be 2nd Leutnant Heinrich Köhler, commander of tank 207 'Heinz', tank No.4 of Abteilung 14. If this is indeed Panzer 207, according to other photos, 'Heinz' was lost in action during the fighting near Fort de la Pompelle on June 1, 1918.
Birchen House, Canning Street, Birkenhead, September 2015
It would seem that, since this photo' was taken, restoration of this large, rather splendid, site has begun and is due for completion in February 2017 ~
www.goodmanwells.com/property/birchen-house/
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Violet Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis purpurata f. chlorophylla) with no anthocyanin on the North Downs, Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AONB, Kent England
We originally discovered this plant back in 2015, and we are so glad it made another appearance after missing it in 2016 due to predation. There are many opinions on this specimen but with the help of a few experts it is believed to be a Violet Helleborine (Epipactis purpurata) which is lacking anthocyanin, the colour pigments which make up the normal colourisation of these plants.
We are open to other interpretations if you care to share, but here are a few of the reasons for the ID. There are no other helleborines, specifically the other possibility being the Broad-leaved Helleborine, growing in this heavily canopied and dark woodland. It also grows alongside many other VH orchids, of which there were over 100 in this wood,
UPDATE confirmation of ID as Epipactis purpurata f. chlorophylla
A British lieutenant briefs his section leaders (note a 2nd lieutenant at his right) during an exercise in the snow by troops of the 1/7th Battalion, Warwickshire Regiment, between Douai and Orchies, taken by Captain Leonard 'Len' Arthur Puttnam, 26 January 1940. The 1/7th Battalion had just arrived in France in time to join the British Expeditionary Force, which was assigned the task of reinforcing French units and stopping any attempt of German advance. It seems the Company H.Q. was established in the Forest of Flines, near Douai (1). In May, German and British forces clashed in the Ypres-Comines Canal, near the French-Belgian border, south of Dunkirk (2). By the end of the month, only 15 officers and 200 soldiers were left, being ordered to retreat north to Dunkirk, where they were repatriated back to England. Their actions in Belgium were essential to delay the German advance and secure the withdrawal of the BEF. All men in the picture are unnamed. The very same day the photograph was taken, Brisbane registered its hottest day ever, at 43.2 °C.
Source: Imperial War Museums (F 2282)
Bibliography: 1. Imperial War Museums (IWM O 1225)
2. Smith, Mark (2014) The History of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Morrisville: Lulu Press
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Rogier van der Weyden (ca. 1399-1464)
Adoration of the Kings (St. Columba Altarpiece)
Central panel: Adoration of the Magi
Left wing: Annunciation
Right wing: Presentation in the Temple
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Inv. Nr. WAF 1189, WAF 1190, WAF 1191
Acquired in 1827 from the Sammlung Boisserée
The artist captures the display of splendour at court while combining realism in the detailing with religious symbols and typological references. The solemn earnestness of his figures and the careful depiction of the human face are characteristic of his work. While the Annunciation scene provides a view of a middle class bedchamber as would have been found in one of the houses in the background, van der Weyden skillfully links the interior used for the 'Presentation in the Temple' with an exterior view in the central panel. The retable was originally in St Mary's Chapel in St Columba's, which was built by Johann Rinck, a major benefactor of this church in Cologne, between 1458 and 1464. He is, however, not the donor depicted in the painting.
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Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch: [roːˈɣiːr vɑn dɛr ˈʋɛi̯də(n)]) or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
He was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime; his paintings were exported – or taken – to Italy and Spain,[1] and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility, and foreign princes.[2]
By the latter half of the 15th century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and largely due to changing taste, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid-18th century.
His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the following 200 years; today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third (by birth date) of the three great Early Flemish artists (Vlaamse Primitieven or "Flemish Primitives"), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.[3]
Very few details of van der Weyden's life are known.[4][5] The few facts we know come from fragmentary civic records. Yet the attribution of paintings now associated to him is widely accepted, partly on the basis of circumstantial evidence, but primarily on the stylistic evidence of a number of paintings by an innovative master.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogier_van_der_Weyden
Van der Weyden worked from life models, and his observations were closely observed. Yet he often idealised certain elements of his models' facial features, who were typically statuesque, especially in his triptychs. All of his forms are rendered with rich, warm colourisation and a sympathetic expression, while he is known for his expressive pathos and naturalism. His portraits tend to be half length and half profile, and he is as sympathetic here as in his religious triptychs. Van der Weyden used an unusually broad range of colours and varied tones; in his finest work the same tone is not repeated in any other area of the canvas, so even the whites are varied.[6]
Soviet soldiers holding PPSh-41 while defending the outskirts of Stalingrad, November 1942. The PPSh-41 is the abbreviation of “pistolet-pulemyot Shpagina”, which means "Shpagin machine pistol". It was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as a cheap, reliable, and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. The PPSh saw extensive combat use during World War II and the Korean War. It was one of the major infantry weapons of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II. Around six million PPSh-41s were manufactured, and was still used by Vietnamese Viet Cong as late as 1970. A common nickname in Russian is "pe-pe-sha" (ППШ), which means "daddy".
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Setting: Inveraray Highland Games 2016
Photographer shooting: Paul McColgan
Photographer being shot: Richard Findlay
Edit (selective colourisation): Richard Findlay
John "Jack" Gaghan was born at Petersburg or Tarcowie, South Australia, on 7 October 1897 to Sarah Gaghan, née McDonald, a presbyterian mother (1). In 1915 he was single and worked as a labourer in Tarcowie, a small town in South Australia. He decided to enlist at Keswick on 24 March 1915 and served with the 10th Infantry Battalion. Gaghan embarked on HMAT Kanowna A61 in Adelaide on 23 June 1915 (2). After a time in Egypt he was redirected to London, where he suffered injuries and was then placed for combat. He was shot in his right forearm on 21 September 1917 and wounded again on 31 May 1918, this time a gunshot on his right knee (1). He recovered in September and rejoined his unit, and eventually returned to Australia in 1919 (3), where he received the Victory and British War Medals three years later, as well as a 1914-15 Star. He had served 4 years and 105 days. Gaghan was married to Noemie Ashken Arzeian and died 20 December 1933 (4).
Source: State Library of South Australia (Ron Blum Collection: B73109)
Bibliography: 1. National Archives of Australia (NAA B2455, GAGHAN J)
2. Australian War Memorial (AWM8 23/27/2)
3. Australian War Memorial (AWM133 19)
4. State Library of South Australia B73109
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ok.. who's stupid idea was this anyway ?! oh that's right.. FGR !
and like a sheep (no Clem.. not a goat).. I followed ! and it made me sick ! really ! minutes after this shot (10th?) was taken, I threw up my mango smoothie ! and I had a huge headache for almost 1 hour ! I am NEVER doing this again ! Unless I get paid..
*** Explored ! :) ***
Vintage Negatives - here is another colourisation. This time from roll 5, with Tom and Cecilia Riley and Amy Stott (the photographer's wife),
A few years ago, when Sam and I were playing with the idea of doing a book with colourisations of German uniforms he sent me this photo from drakegoodman's collection to colourise. I just realised I never posted it here.
A pair of German Landsturm ‘Unteroffiziere’ (squad/platoon leaders) from an unidentified unit, circa 1914/15.
In this case, I believe both men are wearing Litewka tunics: a 1900 blue model and a 1903 grey model.
Rifles are late 19th century’s Gewehr Model 1888 (Gew 88 for shorts).
Original: B.B. Collection (drakegoodman)
Another colourisation by Billyfish Photographic Art - a pilot guns the engines on his Spitfire in Burma.
The painting depicts Lichfield Cathedral, soaring above Minster Pool as a storm approaches. One of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with three spires, and the only medieval one of the three, Turner painted it following his visit to Lichfield during a tour of the Midlands in 1830.
The painting had been in private collections since Turner died in 1851 but was left as a legacy to Lichfield Cathedral.
The cathedral briefly put it on display for people to view,
before being auctioned by Sotheby's in 2017. The painting sold for £310,000.
The painting can be seen here;
www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Joseph-Mallord-Willi...
A member of Hitler Youth aged 13 captured by the U.S. Army near Nartinzell in 1945. As German casualties escalated with the combination of Operation Bagration and the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation in the east, and Operation Cobra in the west, members of the Hitlerjugend or Hitler Youth were recruited at ever younger ages. By 1945, the Volkssturm was commonly drafting 12-year-old Hitler Youth members into its ranks. During the Battle of Berlin, Axmann's Hitler Youth formed a major part of the last line of German defense, and were reportedly among the fiercest fighters. Although the city commander, General Helmuth Weidling, ordered Axmann to disband the Hitler Youth combat formations, in the confusion this order was never carried out. The remnants of the youth brigade took heavy casualties from the advancing Russian forces; only two survived.
1945
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Just to carry on from Fridays update of adding a fitting colour tone to some captures that were originally shot in B/W.
I love B/W photography and I could go on and wax lyrical about why and what I see in B/W photography..........but I'm a simple person who likes simple terms ( I LIKE IT IN B/W ) enough said!
But I know B/W it's not everyone's favourite..... and adding a one tone colourisation can sometimes give a nice unreal feel to a scene.
All these shots were taken on very heavy misty mornings just after sunrise.
The sun was obscured by the mist so the light and colour was actually just a paler version and less saturated version I've used in these captures.
I've add the B/W in the comments so you can see how they originally looked .
Photo by Edward Curtis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Curtis
Coloured for you by Billyfish Photographic Art
Soviet soldier takes a thousand-yard stare while a group of prisoners of war are being held in a Finnish base in Rovaniemi, 6th January 1940. The nine prisoners that formed this group photograph had been provided with Finnish uniforms and caps. By January 1940, the Soviet high command had seen their regiments decimated under temperatures under -40 °C. The last offensives of December were met with harsh resistance and guerrilla warfare in almost complete daytime darkness due to polar night. By February the Russians would try to break through the Finnish lines again.
Source: Sa-Kuva, A 238
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Toni Midnight. The quality of the original image lends itself to colourisation. As always the original dress colours are a mystery, but it is the most fun selecting a colour that seems to work.
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.
The oldest Austrian soldier of WWI, and possibly the oldest of the Great War, 79-years-old Oberjäger Gaspar Wallnöfer* (born ca. 1837/38) pictured here in 1917 wearing a pre-war Jäger tunic** and a war-period cap.
69 years before, as a ten-year-old boy, Wallnöfer took part in the fighting in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution in northern Italy (1st Italian War of Unification) and was awarded a silver medal for bravery. According to a 1917 newspaper caption to this photo, he fought armed with a scythe.
18 years later, in 1866, serving in a Tyrolean Kaiserjäger company during the 3rd Italian War of Unification -also referred to as the 3rd Italian War of Independence- he received the Golden Medal for Bravery (Tapferkeitsmedaille) for capturing an Italian cannon during the Battle of Custozza.
During WWI, Gaspar went to battle a 3rd time against its old foe, Italy, this time in the Tyrol mountains. Being a Standschütze, he served in Standschützen-Batallion Schlanders.
Standschütze was a Tyrolean state militia consisting of men over fifty years old and young people who had not yet reached the age of eighteen and who were members of the Tyrolean and Voralberg rifle clubs.
Gaspar survived the war but unfortunately, I was unable to find any information concerning his service and date of death.
Note on the medals: The ribbons and medals are either hid by Gaspar’s beard or lack detail. After consulting whatever sources I could get my hands on, and cross-referencing awards lists from both the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires with an order of precedence list available online I decided on the following awards, from left to right:
Gold medal for bravery (Tapferkeitsmedaille) 1866 version, Silver medal for bravery, Commemorative Medal for the Defenders of the Tyrol, Crown Jubilee Medal of 1898. The last one is an obscure civilian award and it’s the only one that remotely fits the size, the odd oval shape, and the ribbon grey tone: the State Award for Cavalry Horse Breeding (1908 version).
If anyone has any suggestions on the medals, I’m all ears!
*Sometimes also referred to as Caspar Wallnöfer.
** Colour based on drawings and description, not actual photos of an original tunic.
Original: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (BildID_15424442)
An Algerian soldier of the 9th Algerian Infantry Regiment takes cover behind Tunisian cactus holding a Thompson M1928A1 submachine gun, Tunisia, North Africa, February 1943. The 9th Algerian Infantry Regiment was an infantry unit belonging to the Army of Africa. The unit was created in 1913. The unit participated in the First World War and the Rif War. During WW2 the unit fought in the Tunisian Campaign and the Italian Campaign. The Army of Africa was the unofficial but commonly used term for the portions of the French Army recruited from French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) from 1830 until the end of the Algerian War in 1962. From the end of 1942, the Army of Africa was headed by French General Henri Giraud and fought in the Tunisian Campaign before its merger with General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces, participating in the Italian Campaign in the French Expeditionary Corps.
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Three soldiers from the Grenadier 119th Regiment "Queen Olga" from the XIII Württemberg Corps operating a MG 08 as an anti-aircraft gun, c. 1915. The soldiers can be seen wearing a M92 Überzug covering their Pickelhaubes.
Source: RPPC from private collection
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A Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun position manned by the 2/9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, on the main fighter runway at Gili Gili airfield (Turnbull Field, 1942–1944), September 1943. A Kittyhawk fighter can be seen coming in to land.
Source & caption: AWM, 026629 (Thomas Fisher)
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A soldier guarding near Finnish Captain Väänäsen's tent in camouflage jacket holding his Mosin-Nagant in the north-eastern side of the Lake Ladoga, Winter War, 1 February 1940. This picture was taken at the start of the Second Battle of Summa. The battle was fought in nowadays Soldatskoye between the Gulf of Finland and the Lake Ladoga, in two different phases/battles. The first one, fought between 16–22 December 1939 saw a Finnish defensive victory, while the second offensive launched by the Soviets managed to overrun overrunning the Mannerheim Line between 1–15 February 1940. The line had been named after Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, constructed in the early 1920s, being restarted in 1932. With the outbreak of the war, the line was by no means complete, and didn’t accomplish his principal goal of resisting against an immediate Soviet invasion.
Original picture from SA-kuva
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