carpecolorization

Description: A formal portrait of OTMA Romanov from 1914. Colorized by me, August 2018, using Adobe Photoshop and lots of time. No AI was used.

Description: from "A Song of Joys" poem by Walt Whitman. Come on Charlie, let it fill your soul!!

Description: Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Poem read by Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) in Dead Poets Society.

Description: my favorite lyric from "after the storm"

Description: O me! O life!

Description: Quote from Mr. Keating in Peter Weir's 1989 classic film, Dead Poets Society.

Description: Image of Olga Nikolaevna, colorized by me in 2023. Image is a detail from a larger formal portrait of Olga with her younger sister Tatiana. NO AI was used to create this colorization.

Description: Olga and Maria Nikolaevna in an 1899 portrait, colorized by me.

Description: Studio portrait of Lauren Bacall, colorized by me. NO AI was used to colorize this image.

Description: Donna Reed and James Stewart as Mary Hatch and George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Colorized by me, November 2019.

Description: Edmund Gwenn and Marlene Lyden in the iconic Dutch girl scene from Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Colorized by me, November 2019.

Description: Colorized photo of Olive Thomas (1894 - 1920), silent film actress. Colorized using adobe photoshop. Colorized by me, January 2024.

Description: Alan Turing, 1927. From Wikipedia: Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time...

Description: Poetic gay stuff, probably. Photo of Walt Whitman colorized and restored by me, 2018.

Description: Buddy Holly, cut out. Colorized by me, January 2019.

Description: sparkling night

Description: "and you can aim for my heart, go for blood"