Category Archives: Colourisation

Enemy Aliens

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Loredana Isabella

During the First and Second World Wars, foreign nationals residing in Australia were classed as “enemy aliens” if they came from countries warring with Australia. Photo: H K Cullen ~ Italian internees Loveday Internment Camp 1943 ~ Colourised by Loredana … Continue reading →

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“Beauty is in The Eye of The Gazer.” ― Charlotte Brontë

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Loredana Isabella

Gertrude Stein once said, “I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.” Certainly that is the case with today’s subject, Charlotte Brontë.  There’s a good reason for this. We know from personal letters that … Continue reading →

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Flinders St Station – Melbourne Icon

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Melbourne’s iconic Flinders St Station is the one thing that has remained consistent in my lifetime of inhabiting this wonderful city and when I found this old black and white image in reasonably good condition, I naturally got the urge to … Continue reading →

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New Facebook Page

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

I have been a little absent lately, playing over on that other platform, Facebook, where I have connected in with a whole bunch of colourists who like to share their work. There is some pretty awesome work going around with groups dedicated … Continue reading →

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The Mother of All Mothers

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

She “wanted it to be a holy day, a day of sentiment, not profit,”  dismissing greeting cards as “a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write.” First celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial … Continue reading →

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Gary Cooper ~ Style Icon

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 365 of Colourisation Project – May 7 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper Tryin’ hard to look like Gary Cooper, Super duper                            … Continue reading →

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Rudolph Valentino ~ Archetypal Latin Lover

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 364 of Colourisation Project – May 6 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. His birth name was Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla.  Born this day, … Continue reading →

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Violet Jessop ~ Miss Unsinkable

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 363 of Colourisation Project – May 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Lucky or unlucky? Either way she lived to tell the story through her compelling memoirs titled, … Continue reading →

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Alice Liddell’s Age of Innocence

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 362 of Colourisation Project – May 4 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. As popular today as it ever was, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in … Continue reading →

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In Flanders Fields ~ We are the Dead

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 361 of Colourisation Project – May 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Inspired by the death of his friend in combat, Canadian Officer, Major John McCrae composed one … Continue reading →

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