BabelColour
@StuartHumphryes
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Stuart Humphryes, known as BabelColour since 2006. I clean, enhance & transform early colour photography.
London, England
Joined June 2011
It's a song. It's about Autochromes. I wrote it. Press "play". You'll enjoy it!
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For Day 3 of the Autochrome Advent Calendar, I take you back 115 years by enhancing a rather frosty Russian vista photographed in colour in 1910. The autochrome was taken by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov and I shall add the original plate image in the replies so that you can see the
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For Day 2 of our Autochrome Advent Calendar, I transport you back 113 years to an icy Belgian park in 1912. The autochrome plate was taken by Alfonse van Besten and those blurry children were obviously shivering too much to remain still! It is original colour, not colourised.
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To kick off Day 1 of our Autochrome Advent Calendar, I transport you back 115 years to a beautiful icy scene from 1910, photographed by Antonin Personnaz. It is original colour, not colourised.
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Mini ATG Gym Design + Knee & Lower Back Recipes That Have Been Wonderful For My Clients (Heads up: long article format) I measured off 200 square feet (10’ x 20’), including ample walking space, and polished off my own mini ATG. In fact, only 100 square feet of it is really
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Photographed in colour almost 120 years ago, this shot of a young woman is a highly unusual autochrome, as the shot has an uncharacteristically natural, ralaxed & candid appearance of her caught off-guard and smiling. Since autochromes required around 30 x the exposure time of
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In honour of "Movember" and the growth of moustaches across the world, I have cleaned-up a wonderful photo of my great-grandfather Pierre, who emigrated from Switzerland to London in 1908.
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Quite off topic, but if you fancy hearing what I sound like, a Dr Who trailer went up today featuring my good self in a rare voice-acting role, playing a kindly space president. I'm the voice near the start saying "A situation has arisen of upmost urgency" https://t.co/AAltWHio2Q
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Travel back 111 years ago, to the city of Yalta in the Taurida province of southern Crimea in 1914 - 3 years before the Russian Revolution. These amazing autochromes by Peter Vendenisov capture the young Sofia Andreevna Kozakova - daughter of Russian aristocrat Andrey Kozakov who
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Sitting in the sun reading the morning newspaper nearly 120 years ago, I have cleaned-up this amazing glass plate autochrome which really removes the barrier of time which usually separate us from our Edwardian forebears. It is a colour photo of Fritz Raab - a doctor and
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This could have been taken today - or it could have been an album cover in the 1970s - but it is a timeless self-portrait which was actually taken 115 years ago in 1910. The subject (and photographer) was the playwright and novelist Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919). This glass plate
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Photographed in March 1912 (but not published by the National Geographic until 1916) the US photographer Franklin Price Knott took this glass plate photograph of a Hopi Snake Clan ceremony. The autochrome was taken in colour 113 years ago and isn't colourised.
This was taken 112 years ago in Arizona, USA, on Sunday 31st March 1912 - just a fortnight before the sinking of the Titanic. It is an autochrome portrait of a Hopi Snake Clan priest, taken in colour by Franklin Price Knott (although it was not published by the National
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I have cleaned & enhanced this poignant autochrome portrait of a young girl holding a poppy in a Belgian field in 1919. It was photographed in colour 106 years ago by Gustave Gain and is not colourised.
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115 years ago by the village of Champigneulles in the Bellefontaine Valley, France, this beautiful autochrome was taken amongst the poppy fields by Julien Gérardin. It is original colour, not colourised.
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115 years ago by the village of Champigneulles in the Bellefontaine Valley, France, this beautifully evocative autochrome was taken amongst the poppy fields by Julien Gérardin. It is original colour, not colourised.
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101 years ago today: 11am on Tuesday 11th November 1919, crowds in London observe the very first 2 minute silence for those killed in the Great War. The men have removed their hats out of respect for the fallen. (I originally coloured this photo for the Evening Standard in 2019).
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A young pilgrim at Lourdes in France, wearing a Catholic veil in September 1920. I have cleaned-up this rather beautiful autochrome glass plate photograph by Fernand Culville, which was taken in colour 105 years ago. It is not colourised.
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I've enhanced this wonderful autochrome plate of a forlorn little girl with a beautiful turquoise bow, taken 115 years ago by an anonymous photographer. It is original colour from 1910, not colourised
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They took passports, medical files, even attorney-client documents. @EricTrump exposes what really happened.
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Today I've cleaned-up a really gorgeous autochrome portrait of Suzanne Lumière (daughter of Louis, one of the brothers who invented the autochrome process in 1903), which captures such amazing light! The glass plate photo was taken around 1906 & is original colour, not
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