Colorized images of old New York

YouTube ^ | May 6 2017 | RiverMedia

[NRx]

A collection of images from old New York and some of the surrounding areas that have been colorized.

[luvbach1]

I’m not Irish but it’s a fine song and I like it.

[CJ Wolf]

that is in Philly and is my great grandpa

[CJ Wolf]

yep just like my great grandpa in Philly talking to the shoeshine boys. Ain’t nyc.

[lizma2]

Civil War. Colorization makes it more real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jugp3Bm8bAs

[trebb]

Neat

[JoeFromSidney]

I spent nearly 2 years in Thailand during the Vietnam war. I traveled all over the country, as well as spending some time on Vietnam, all courtesy of the USAF. I came back with nearly a hundred rolls of Ektachrome slides. Within less than a decade they had all faded to complete blanks. I have no photographic record of my time there. I wish I'd spent a little more money and bought Kodachrome film instead.

[Aliska]

Do you have a copy you can post? It's a thrill to get a photo like that. Some of my few really nice ones have disappeared, Warwick Castle and a girl walking by Burge Hall in Iowa City from the back framed by colorful trees are just a few oh the one of Maid of the Mist, American and Horshoe Falls on a perfect day. Maybe they weren't that good but I was happy with them.

I've been sorting my slides to have converted to digital. The cheapest way is I pay to rent those carousel cartridges and load them myself, plus I use my lens brush to dust each one front and back. I want to do the sizing and touch-up work and will have to just select a few for that.

Fall is one of the best time to take pictures. You could have taught me a thing or two back then but I was always impatient about some things. I think that's why my dad just turned me loose heh. He used a light meter. That was too much of a mystery for me.

OMGosh look what I found, didn't know it had hopped over to my present computer lol. I have some from other places, most not scanned, but this is the particular one that came to mind when I wrote what I did.

[Aliska]

That's a shame. Some of mine are faded badly but some are almost as perfect (the keepers lol) as when I got them back from processing. I'm so sorry as that was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and time doesn't stand still.

An acquaintance from a photography group digitized all his photos from Vietnam; he's a professional photographer now. I don't know what camera he used then but all his were black and white.

[yarddog]

I used to be able to post photos using Photobucket but they started charging so I quit using them.

Anyone know of any other free hosting sites which allow pictures to be uploaded?

[Aliska]

I just use flickr but they are associated with yahoo which got hacked. For no more than I post these days, it suits me, signed up way before the hack, but the hack is affecting me in a couple accounts where I had to change my pw.

You might check Instagram. It's more geared for mobile use with the up down left right format which I find annoying but for a few single shot, it might work for you.

Used to have my own space but it was costing me about $45 a month, and I had way more space allocated than I was using; i.e., a waste of money.

I don't know if you can embed from facebook or not; I got off of that but if you are a member that might work.

Somebody might come up with a better answer. I signed up for photobucket long ago, never used it much and, like you, not gonna pay if I don't have to.

[kanawa]

http://tinypic.com/

[Aliska]

P.S. If you do decide to go with flickr, they give you the code (it's kind of cumbersome to organize and navigate imo). I have to chop off all but some of the center of the code to get it to work here, pretty intuitive. Think I tried using the url at the top, don't think it works.

Code they gave me:

< a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44652973@N04/37383595060/in/dateposted-public/" title="New York Skyline">< img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4465/37383595060_15494bf803_b.jpg" width="830" height="523" alt="New York Skyline">

What I cut out of it for my post:

< img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4465/37383595060_15494bf803_b.jpg" width="830" height="523" alt="New York Skyline">

I had to stick some spaces in it so just the code would post.

[yarddog]

Thanks.

[CodeToad]

“It’s a shame that photography was not invented until well into the 1800s. Would be amazing to have photographs of Colonial America or even Medieval Europe. Of course, that’s a ludicrous wish, but wouldn’t that be something.
“

It is why painting, sculptures, and other arts works are so important. Not because they have aesthetic qualities but they capture what photographs eventually could.

[NFHale]

“Christmas in New York” is beautiful too. I believe Shillelagh Law wrote that very shortly after 9-11-01.

[NFHale]

Indeed it is...

It just has a wonderful movement to it.

[Aliska]

You’re welcome. Good luck! I screwed up the code a little but you get the idea.