Colorized from original on Shorpy. View full size.

Someone really loved this one.

The image was found on Shorpy and was restored and colorized in Photoshop. View full size.

Work of Winter's Wand, circa 1907, from the Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Collection. What better time to post this than the middle of a very hot August! View full size.

Colorized version of this Shorpy image. View full size.

I don't think they had the steak! It also looks like you can see the footprint on the bench on the right side where Russell Lee(photographer)must have crouched back against the wall to take the T-Bone Steak shot. View full size.

Colorized version of one of the many fascinating photos by Russell Lee. View full size.

Colorized version of Ashwood, 1939.

Where do kids get these crazy ideas? From their parents, of course. View full size.

Colorized version of Pensacola 1906 originally posted elsewhere on Shorpy. View full size.

A closer view of the train in Pensacola 1906, colorized. View full size.

Silver Springs, Florida, circa 1900 (Colorized). "Okeehumkee at wharf on the Oklawaha River." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size

This is my attempt at colorizing George N. Barnard’s photograph found on the Library of Congress’s Web site - Digital file from original negative of right half.

The title is “Atlanta, Ga. Wagon Train on Marietta Street”; however, this is in error. In fact, it was probably taken from the upper floor of a building at the NW corner of the intersection of Whitehall (now Peachtree) and Alabama Streets looking SE down Alabama. (See details in “Mapping Barnard's Alabama Street” at Bing map)

The lamppost in the foreground is almost certainly the one from which a cannon ball ricocheted killing Solomon Luckie on 8/9/1864. Luckie was a free African American barber, and the Lamppost is still standing with reinforcements placed over the shell damage in Underground Atlanta. There are still some refinements that I would like to make to this image, but the file is so large my computer – or my old version of Photoshop – won’t take any more changes. View full size.

A photo found here on this site and colorized.

I "think" the original photographer was trying to make a statement about the young American Indians of their day, looking to the future and using a modern machine to do it.

The only problem is, that only one looks like he might be a native American Indian. There are three of them and only one bike so I don't think they are not going to get very far. And there were cars during the time of photography, but the white man is not parting with something like that.

At least that is what I took away from the photo.

Other than that, it is a very nice photo.

I use bright warm colors almost always, so you know the photo has been colorized. Colorization gives a surreal quality to the work. I rarely try and make the colorization process look natural. Sometimes the photo calls for nothing natural to be done at all.

I am always looking for interesting photos to colorize. They usually have to be of very strange events, things we have never seen before. We see photographs all day long, so the only photos that catch my attention are of things we "don't" see everyday.

I do a lot of "vintage" nudes and erotica. It is interesting to see and we sometimes forget that even if it was 100 years ago, we are all basically the same animals then and now.

My fifth colorized image, but instead of Atlantic City, this time it's Steeplechase Park at Coney Island. Around thirty hours of work went into this one; I swear I still can't predict with any degree of certainty how long any particular picture might take. "Longer than you expect" is probably a good rule of thumb.

The original is here. The dimensions are different, as I've cropped it to serve as computer wallpaper.

I'm pretty sure the colors on the American flag are more or less correct. And the skin tones are probably reasonably close. The boardwalk probably really was brown and the sky probably really was blue. The other colors are sourced purely from my imagination. View full size.

February 17, 1909. "No. 28 -- The Kodak Girl." View full size.