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I'm Stuart Humphryes: known on-line as BabelColour. I enhance early colour photography. I do not colourise. Buy my new book here https://t.co/uuGgbvcbW2

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Have you baked my cake yet? It's BabelColour's birthday! And in a totally shameless act birthday brazenness, I re-share a link to my ko-fi page, with an invitation for anyone who's enjoyed my work this year to leave a gesture of birthday support ♥️

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Have you baked my cake yet? It's BabelColour's birthday! And in a totally shameless act birthday brazenness, I re-share a link to my ko-fi page, with an invitation for anyone who's enjoyed my work this year to leave a gesture of birthday support ♥️ ko-fi.com/babelcolour
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Have you baked my cake yet? It's BabelColour's birthday! And in a totally shameless act birthday brazenness, I re-share a link to my ko-fi page, with an invitation for anyone who's enjoyed my work this year to leave a gesture of birthday support ♥️

ko-fi.com/babelcolour

Have you baked my cake yet? It's BabelColour's birthday! And in a totally shameless act birthday brazenness, I re-share a link to my ko-fi page, with an invitation for anyone who's enjoyed my work this year to leave a gesture of birthday support ♥️ ko-fi.com/babelcolour
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Travel back just over a century to July 1921. I have enhanced for you this autochrome portrait of a young peasant lad at Campan, in Hautes-Pyrenees, south-western France. It was taken in colour by Fernand Culville and is not colourised.

Travel back just over a century to July 1921. I have enhanced for you this autochrome portrait of a young peasant lad at Campan, in Hautes-Pyrenees, south-western France. It was taken in colour by Fernand Culville and is not colourised.
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Did you say you like big hats? Splendid! Then this is the tweet for you! Enormous hats from 1909, 1910 and 1917. All taken in colour via the autochrome process. They are not colourised. 🎩🎩

Did you say you like big hats? Splendid! Then this is the tweet for you! Enormous hats from 1909, 1910 and 1917. All taken in colour via the autochrome process. They are not colourised. 🎩🎩
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Travel back 99 years to the London of June 1924. I have cleaned & enhanced for you this autochrome by visiting French photographers Roger Dumas & Camille Sauvageot, capturing the work of a pavement chalk artist on the Thames Embankment. It was taken in colour and isn't colourised

Travel back 99 years to the London of June 1924. I have cleaned & enhanced for you this autochrome by visiting French photographers Roger Dumas & Camille Sauvageot, capturing the work of a pavement chalk artist on the Thames Embankment. It was taken in colour and isn't colourised
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I have enhanced for you rather bleak and frosty vista of Russia in 1910, blown by snow and melancholia. The autochrome was taken by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov 113 years ago and, for a change, I tweet it with the original plate, so that you can see the clean-up work in action.

I have enhanced for you rather bleak and frosty vista of Russia in 1910, blown by snow and melancholia. The autochrome was taken by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov 113 years ago and, for a change, I tweet it with the original plate, so that you can see the clean-up work in action.
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Through the forest undergrowth, shrouded in the Winter's snow, shines the light of Christmas Past. This autochrome by Antonin Personnaz was taken in colour 110 years ago, and yet it is today. 😍

Through the forest undergrowth, shrouded in the Winter's snow, shines the light of Christmas Past. This autochrome by Antonin Personnaz was taken in colour 110 years ago, and yet it is today. 😍
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Traverse the last century with me, to the summer of 1910. I've enhanced for you this wonderful early autochrome by Thomas Shields Clarke, of a nun holding a dove - the symbol of peace, freedom & love (just 4 years before the Great War). It is original colour and not colourised 😍

Traverse the last century with me, to the summer of 1910. I've enhanced for you this wonderful early autochrome by Thomas Shields Clarke, of a nun holding a dove - the symbol of peace, freedom & love (just 4 years before the Great War). It is original colour and not colourised 😍
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Just a reminder of what was happening 71 years ago this very week.... descending on an unsuspecting London on 5th December 1952...

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Wind your clocks back 113 years to the spring of 1910. I have enhanced for your this lovely autochrome portrait of a little red-haired pixie, whose young life was lived and now long spent. It was taken in colour and isn't colourised.

Wind your clocks back 113 years to the spring of 1910. I have enhanced for your this lovely autochrome portrait of a little red-haired pixie, whose young life was lived and now long spent. It was taken in colour and isn't colourised.
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As I tweet daily about enhancing autochromes, I thought you may like to see what they actually are! They're very early colour photos, captured on glass plates. They were not printed onto paper, but instead viewed in a mirrored case which one holds towards sunlight to peer inside!

As I tweet daily about enhancing autochromes, I thought you may like to see what they actually are! They're very early colour photos, captured on glass plates. They were not printed onto paper, but instead viewed in a mirrored case which one holds towards sunlight to peer inside!
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This wonderful, striking autochrome by Friedrich Paneth of his children by a lake at sunset was taken a hundred years ago and is original colour (it's not colourised). I find it a very evocative image, rather like the old silhouette Christmas cards I received as a child.

This wonderful, striking autochrome by Friedrich Paneth of his children by a lake at sunset was taken a hundred years ago and is original colour (it's not colourised). I find it a very evocative image, rather like the old silhouette Christmas cards I received as a child.
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Time travel with me today, as I whisk you back 113 years for afternoon tea in Belgium in 1910. I have enhanced this wonderful autochrome by Paul Sano, showing the photographer Charles Corbet taking afternoon tea with his wife Elisabeth. It was taken in colour & is not colourised.

Time travel with me today, as I whisk you back 113 years for afternoon tea in Belgium in 1910. I have enhanced this wonderful autochrome by Paul Sano, showing the photographer Charles Corbet taking afternoon tea with his wife Elisabeth. It was taken in colour & is not colourised.
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99% of the photo I tweet are from the early days of colour photography. I don't colourise them because they were taken in colour. However in the last day I've posted half a dozen colourised images because thematically they go together, but I don't want that to confuse anyone!

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Restoring & enhancing a photo from 3rd March 1855. These are Crimean War casualties awaiting the arrival of Queen Victoria at Brompton Barracks, Chatham. I've used up-scaling algorithms to enhance the detail, manual re-balancing & finally a colourisation to bridge the 165 years

Restoring & enhancing a photo from 3rd March 1855. These are Crimean War casualties awaiting the arrival of Queen Victoria at Brompton Barracks, Chatham. I've used up-scaling algorithms to enhance the detail, manual re-balancing & finally a colourisation to bridge the 165 years
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December's issue of 'Wild West' Magazine has a nice full page printing of my Billy the Kid restoration & colourisation work. Bit of a shame they spelt my name wrong, but then absolutely *everybody* does! Pop the the shop, buy a copy and own a bit of BabelColour!

December's issue of 'Wild West' Magazine has a nice full page printing of my Billy the Kid restoration & colourisation work. Bit of a shame they spelt my name wrong, but then absolutely *everybody* does! Pop the the shop, buy a copy and own a bit of BabelColour!
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Last year I did a series of restoration-enhancements (and rare colourisations) of photographs from the Crimean War. This was one which proved popular. My clean-up + colouring of a photo by Joseph Cundall in 1856. It's colour-sergeant Andrew Taylor of the 72nd Highlanders.

Last year I did a series of restoration-enhancements (and rare colourisations) of photographs from the Crimean War. This was one which proved popular. My clean-up + colouring of a photo by Joseph Cundall in 1856. It's colour-sergeant Andrew Taylor of the 72nd Highlanders.
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Photographed at Wadi Mousa in Arabia (now Jordan) on Saturday 23rd March 1918, this autochrome portrait depicts one of the the Ordnance Corps of the Arab Northern Army's French Detachment under Captain Rosario Pisani (1880-1952). It was taken in colour and isn't colourised.

Photographed at Wadi Mousa in Arabia (now Jordan) on Saturday 23rd March 1918, this autochrome portrait depicts one of the the Ordnance Corps of the Arab Northern Army's French Detachment under Captain Rosario Pisani (1880-1952). It was taken in colour and isn't colourised.
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