I fell for click-bait on Facebook again and downloaded the free version of a colorizing app. Here are the nine formerly black & white photos I managed to convert to color before it cut me off pending my coughing up about thirty dollars. The first three b&w photos handy were in frames in the den where I was sitting. Then I went to the shelf where I keep my grandmother's -- Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson (Shaw) -- albums and picked out a few more.
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| A photo Mike Bock took of us in the early seventies along the Tear-Britches Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness. The colors in our clothes are about right! How about that. |
Here Sheila enters our cabin on Lake Creek in southern Floyd County Georgia about 1973. Mike also took the photo.
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This b&w was taken in the Colegian offices at Asbury College Sheila's senior year when she was the editor of that newspaper.
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| I had no idea my great-grandmother's blouse was red. Eula Amanda Childers (Wilkerson) died at only 29 in 1911 leaving three young daughters. Her only son had died as a three month old baby in 1907. |
My B/W masterpiece has been colorized! Next in line, I guess it will be Ansel Adams? Just kidding. These colorized versions are fun and look great.
ReplyDeleteHa! I was just curious. It is interesting that the program can actually come close to reading the actual colors from the black and white densities, I guess. The fairly realistic coloring in Ansel Bock's shots make me fairly confident that my great-granny was really wearing a red blouse.
ReplyDeleteWow. I love that this can identify long forgotten colors. Of course, I'm impressed that you remember the color of your outfits from, what was it — 62 years ago? I think I still have a jacket I'm still wearing from back then.
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