colorizations
I enjoy restoring and colorizing old black and white photos.
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Armistice Day
The sky is a wonderful blue and the air is just the right touch of cool for November. Southern California days in the lateness of the year are a pleasure – which makes this parade exhilarating instead of tiring. Armistice Day, 1924! We came back from France changed, my old self, dead. I hardly remember…
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1930’s Long Beach, Colorized
I love visualizing cities as they existed during the many decades of their lives. The city of Long Beach has changed dramatically in the years since these original photos were taken. I ‘borrowed’ them from the Los Angeles Public Library’s digital archive. The photos show a semi-aerial view close to Lincoln Park and the second…
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The Color of History
Of the many forms of art I enjoy, photography is the one most closely associated in my mind with total immediacy. The camera captures the details of a scene instantaneously…providing us with photons frozen in time. One of my deep interests is developing a way to “restore” color information to black and white imagery for…
The Numinous Cosmos 