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  1. Not surprisingly, I've acquired quite a few old photos recently, so I really have no excuse NOT to do #ThrowbackThursday from now on.

    Here's my late Dad as a wee baby, back in the summer of 1942.

    He was born in North End Avenue in Portsmouth - not St Mary's Hospital like many Portsmouthians were.

    #Baby #OldPhoto #ScannedPhoto #1940s #Photography #Portsmouth

  2. The Wise Man on the Right

    I’ve been going through old black & white photographs and asking an AI model to colourise them for me, and it’s doing a pretty decent job of this. This photo jogged a few memories and prompted a realisation. Read on to find out more.

    I don’t remember much about the day that photograph was taken, just the soft weight of the costume, the scratch of the fabric at my neck, and the sense that something important was happening even if I didn’t quite understand what. I must have been six or seven. We crossed the road from Birstall County Primary school to the chapel in our costumes, a little procession of shepherds, angels, and wise men wobbling along the pavement like mismatched ducklings.

    In the picture, I’m the one on the far right: glasses too big, robes hanging awkwardly, trying to look solemn and grown-up. I can see now that I was nervous, though I wouldn’t have had the words for it then. Back then, I just felt “different,” without knowing why.

    If I could speak to that kid now, that tiny wise man with the oversized glasses, I’d tell him the truth no one around him knew how to give him. I’d tell him he’s autistic, and that this is why the world feels louder, sharper, and more complicated for him than it seems to be for the other children. I’d tell him he isn’t broken or strange; he’s simply wired in a way that will one day make sense.

    I’d warn him, too, because honesty matters. The bullying will come, and it will hurt, and it will get worse in high school before it gets better. But I’d also tell him that he survives it. Not by becoming someone else but by slowly, stubbornly, becoming himself.

    And maybe that’s why colourising this photo feels so powerful. It’s like offering that child a kindness he never received at the time: a moment of being seen clearly, gently, and with understanding.

    Sometimes the smallest memories are the ones that finally teach us who we’ve been all along.

    #AI #Autism #autistic #blackAndWhite #Childhood #colourised #disability #disabled #emotion #family #feeling #glasses #life #love #memoir #Nativity #oldPhoto #spectacles #wiseMan
  3. Ive been trying to sort out my old photos as I lost many to the blue screen of death (no back up). These are some from my visit to Turkey in 2015. It was over 50c all week, even the locals said it was too hot. Was a fantastic holiday all round.

    #holiday #oldphoto #photo #turkey

  4. #photography #photograph #oldphoto #thewaywewere #photo 📷 This is pretty much the vibe by which I've been living my entire life. I like people in small, deeply concentrated doses. A lot of the time, however, I would rather hang out with birds.

  5. Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool.

    #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #1970s #Syracuse #SyracuseNY #BWPhoto

  6. 📷 Studio Portrait of an Ottoman Boy, Istanbul, c. 1900. #oldphoto

  7. On my Patreon you will see mini sets every week 💙 With Berry Kiss or higher level you will also get my month sets for free 🥰 Subscribe now patreon.com/fairyelfie 🍓 #beach #sea #bikini #vacations #summer #oldphoto

  8. We've received an enquiry regarding old photos of Sellindge village in Kent, UK. If you have access to photos or know where we could find some, please get in touch ([email protected])! #history #kent #oldphoto #photos #socialhistory

  9. 📷 Studio Portrait of a Gentlemen in Salonica (Thessaloniki, Greece), 1890s #oldphoto

  10. 巴西研究發現,貝多芬《第五號交響曲》 能夠摧毀20%的癌細胞,而且不會傷害健康的細胞(神奇)
    對、就是大家耳熟能詳的那首樂曲🎵
    #新聞 #圖文不符 #tbt #oldphoto
    #自然 #景色 #nature #scene #scenery

  11. Battista Farina e la Ferrari 275 GTB (motore V12 da 280 CV a 7600 giri e velocità massima di 258 km/h).

    Noto con il nome di Giovanni Battista Pininfarina, nel 1930 fondò la Società Anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina insieme a Vincenzo Lancia e Gaspare Bona. L'azienda per un periodo lavorò quasi esclusivamente per Lancia.

    Tra le ultime creazioni figura l'Alfa Romeo "Duetto" del '66, disegnata insieme a Martinengo e Brovarone.

    #autostoriche #autodepoca #classiccars #cars #oldphoto

  12. College Green from Trinity College Dublin from 'The Dictionary of Dublin, being a comprehensive guide to the city and its neighbourhood ... Illustrated by numerous photographs taken by the authors' which was published in 1895.

    Copy supplied by the British Library from its digital collections.

    flickr.com/photos/britishlibra

    Licence: creativecommons.org/publicdoma

    #Dublin #Ireland #OldPhoto #oldphotos #19thCentury #19thcenturyphotography #DublinPhotography #OldDublin #CollegeGreenDublin

  13. St Patrick and St Nicholas Streets from 'The Dictionary of Dublin, being a comprehensive guide to the city and its neighbourhood ... Illustrated by numerous photographs taken by the authors' which was published in 1895.

    Copy supplied by the British Library from its digital collections.

    Licence: creativecommons.org/publicdoma

    #Dublin #Ireland #OldPhoto #oldphotos #19thCentury #19thcenturyphotography #DublinPhotography #OldDublin

  14. This is a photo of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. The walls were painted by a surgeon who wanted to give patients something to look at while they waited for their anesthesia. A beautiful merging of art and medicine.

    #histsci #histmed #medhist #sciart #art #oldphoto #medhistorian #surgery #histodon #histodons

  15. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The Conwy Railway Bridge, in Welsh known as Pont Rheilffordd Conwy, and Conwy Castle (Castell Conwy) in Wales - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s.

    The bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1849. It's still in use and protected as Welsh heritage.

    #Conwy #Conway #Wales #Cymru #bridge #railways #FascinatingEurope #Europe #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #UK #Britain #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #photos #oldphoto #vintage #OldViews #cityscape #architecture

  16. 🇳🇱 The City Hall (Stadhuis) in Leiden, the Netherlands - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced.

    The city hall was significantly damaged by a fire in 1929, but its beautiful Renaissance facade is still largely intact.

    #Leiden #TheNetherlands #Dutch #Holland #Nederland #Netherlands #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #EuropeanHeritage #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #photos #oldphoto #photochrom #vintage #OldViews

  17. 🇩🇪 Panorama of Bremerhaven (Low German: Bremerhoben) in northern Germany - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced. The church is still there, but the houses are gone.

    #Bremerhaven #Bremerhoben #Germany #Deutschland #Bremen #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #cityscape #architecture #city #town #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #photos #oldphoto #photochrom

  18. 🇮🇹 Via Stabiana in the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii - captured by Giorgio Sommer around 1888. Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    #Pompeii #GiorgioSommer #Italy #Italia #AncientRome #AncientHistory #FascinatingEurope #Europe #heritage #photography #blackandwhite #BW #photo #foto #heritage #fotografie #photos #oldphoto #vintage #oldviews #EuropeanHeritage #WorldHeritage

  19. 🇮🇪 Caisleán na Carraige Duibhe, a.k.a. Blackrock Castle, in Corcaigh (English: Cork), in the south-west of Ireland - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.

    #Corcaigh #Cork #Éire #Ireland #Irish #Blackrock #BlackrockCastle #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #photos #oldphoto #vintage #oldviews #photochrom #castle #history #castles

  20. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cityscape of the picturesque Scottish town of An Leargaidh, in English known as Largs - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.

    #AnLeargaidh #Alba #Largs #Scotland #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #EuropeanHeritage #cityscape #architecture #city #town #vintage #oldviews #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #photos #oldphoto #photochrom

  21. Memories: Sunday, January 15th, 2017: “A pic that I remember well in a family photo album from my childhood. It was taken Sept. 18th, 1973, when we visited Washington DC. The pic is, sadly, just a bit out of focus. In later years, we speculated that the anchor being filmed may have actually been Dan Rather. Who knows? Maybe… It would be cool if this pic actually turned out to be one of him from back in his earlier reporting days.” #OldPhoto #WashingtonDC #BroadcastNews #1970s #FamilyPhotoAlbum

  22. 🇭🇷 Kamerlengo Castle in the Croatian town of Trogir on the Dalmatian coast (formerly known as Traù) - a photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.

    The Historic City of Trogir is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    #Trogir #Croatia #Hrvatska #Kamerlengo #Dalmatia #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #Adriatic #artwork #vintage #oldviews #photochrom #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #photos #oldphoto