Category Archives: Photography

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 →

Posted in Australia, Australian Politics, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, USA, World War 2 | Tagged Deadly Earnest, internees, Internment Camps, Italian Internees, Japanese Internees, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Pearl Harbor, WW2 | 1 Comment

Look Closely

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Looks can be deceptive. Photography can be deceptive. Or should I ask, “is seeing believing?” Look closely what do you see? How many horses are there in this picture? If you said one horse, you’d be wrong. Look again. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Photography | Tagged horse and cart, horses, Loredana Crupi, optical illusions, Opus Loredana | 3 Comments

Look Down

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Photographers are often reminded to diversify their camera angles by looking upwards to capture imposing perspectives of buildings or majestic canopies of trees. Whilst this is essentially a terrific suggestion especially in Melbourne, where we have many architecturally beautiful and … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Black & White, Photography | Tagged iron gates, Lady Gaga, Loredana Crupi, Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne, Northcote, Opus Loredana, picket fences, shade, shadows, streets | 9 Comments

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 →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Mother & Child, Opus Loredana, Photography, USA, Women | Tagged Loredana Crupi, Luciano Pavarotti, Mother's Day, Opus Loredana, Ricky Martin | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA | Tagged A Farewell to Arms (1932), Bruce Boyer, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944), Gary Cooper, High Noon, Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Loredana Crupi, Love in the Afternoon (1957), Opus Loredana, President John F. Kennedy, Ralph Lauren, Sergeant York, Sergeant York (1941), The Fountainhead (1949), The Hanging Tree (1959), The Pride of the Yankees (1943) | 9 Comments

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 →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA | Tagged Blood and Sand (1922), Loredana Crupi, Natacha Rambova, OpusLoredana, Rudolph Valentino, The Eagle (1925), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Sheik (1921), The Son of the Sheik (1926) | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, Women, Women writers, World War 1 | Tagged HMHS Britannic, HMS Hawke, Loredana Crupi, Miss Unsinkable, OpusLoredana, Red Star Line, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, Titanic, Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of a Stewardess, Violet Jessop, White Star Line | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography | Tagged Alfred, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Lord Tennyson, Loredana Crupi, OpusLoredana, Through the Looking Glass | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Canada, Colorization, Colourisation, France, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, Poetry, World War 1 | Tagged In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, Loredana Crupi, Major John McCrae, OpusLoredana | 3 Comments

Mad-Hatter Hedda Hopper

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 360 of Colourisation Project – May 2 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Let’s face it, Hollywood would be bland without its gossip columnists. There have been many; Perez … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women writers | Tagged Citizen Kane (1941), From Under My Hat, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, Loredana Crupi, OpusLoredana, Perez Hilton, Sheilah Graham, The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Walter Winchell | 1 Comment