BabelColour
@StuartHumphryes
Stuart Humphryes, known as BabelColour. I clean, enhance & transform early colour photography.
The setting of the winter sun 117 years ago - a rare colour view through the amber haze of sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this beautiful, almost melancholic, autochrome plate, taken by Julian Gérardin in Tomblaine, NE France. It is original colour (not…
The beautiful light of this autochrome casts an ethereal aura around the crocheting child. Her name was Hélène Gélibert (niece of the Lumiere brothers, who invented the autochrome colour process). It was taken 115 years ago in the Monplaisir district of Lyon in France, in the…
The golden sunlight in this autochrome is absolutely spectacular! I have cleaned up this remarkable photograph of three ladies of Lyon, picking fruit during the Golden Hour, 115 years ago. It was taken by Professor Fernand Arloing in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.
Taken 106 years ago, on Monday 22nd Dec 1919, I have cleaned-up this autochrome view of the 6th Paris Air Show, photographed by Georges Chevalier at the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées. It is original colour, not colourised.
Thank you all for your engagement - especially the last year which has been so difficult for me healthwise & careerwise. If you've enjoyed my posts, you may like to know I have a ko-fi page, where you can show support with a little tip for a coffee. LINK: ko-fi.com/babelcolour
Here's a treat for fans of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Trans-Antarctic Expedition on The Endurance. This is a brand new clean-up of a rare colour paget plate, showing the frozen rigging of the Endurance in 1915, shortly before the ship sank beneath the ice. It was taken in…
I have cleaned & enhanced for you the oldest verified photograph of London, taken 185 years ago, in September 1839. This is a daguerreotype photograph, taken at Trafalgar Square, looking past the equestrian statue of King Charles into Whitehall and Parliament Street beyond. The…
Photographed 111 years ago by US photographer John B. Trevor, this autochrome portrait of a young lady is particularly unusual and fascinating because one can see the photographer reflected in the window. It is original colour, not colourised.
