Hi there everyone! I hope social-distancing/isolation/quarantine is treating you well - hopefully we we can return to our regularly scheduled lives sooner rather than later! At the beginning of March, I talked about using the new MyHeritage InColor system to colourise some of my old family photos. In exciting news, MyHeritage has opened up the service, for free, to everyone, without any photo limits for a limited time. So naturally, I took advantage and went crazy, giving all my black and white family photos a new lease of life! With everyone in isolation, MyHeritage has gifted us all the opportunity to colourise our photos until April 22, so make sure you take advantage of this, otherwise you're only able to colour 10 unless you have an unlimited MyHeritage subscription. So without further ado, here's some more of my colourised family photos! Not all of them have a nice little story like in my last post, but it's easy to see how much of a difference colour makes in bringing these photos to life. Here we have one of my maternal great grandmothers, May Johns (on the right), with her sister Violet and brother Barkel. Barkel fought in World War One, and this is one of the few war photos I have of him. In fact, most of the photos I have of him are to do with his war service. It's a pretty simple portrait shot, but the colour really makes it pop and helps bring out all the details that get a bit lost in black and white. This one is a pretty good example of one of the slight shortcomings of InColor - everyone is dressed in gray! This is my grandfather's 21st, and while I don't doubt that gray was probably worn by several people here, there was definitely some more colour variation IRL. Can't really complain though - I'm just happy to see a bit of colour on all these gray faces! I did not really have high hopes for this photo sketch of my maternal great great grandparents, Ellen and Patrick Gleeson, but was pleasantly surprised with the outcome! These two, and their children, have such an interesting story, so seeing them with a bit of colour is really special. I shared a photo of my paternal grandmother, Launa, in the previous post, and I'm sure you'll agree that her face didn't change much as she got older - it just got a few more wrinkles! She's pictured here with her sister Gladys, and they just look even cuter in colour! The only obvious mishap is her shadowed right leg, which is a little annoying, but I'll live with it. Remember Ellen and Patrick Gleeson from two photos ago? Well this is five of their children! Together, they actually had TEN children, and they're definitely one of my favourite branches in my entire family history. This photo came up on my Ancestry tree, and I'm a little unsure as to who is who - although I can say that my great grandmother, Ellen, is at the back on the right, and Lucy is on left (Lucy actually lived a week shy of her 107th birthday!) And then the youngest daughter, Frances, is at the front on the left. I was SO excited to find this photo as it's such a good quality, but seeing it in colour left me speechless. It's stunning and it's most definitely one of my favourites. I love a good wedding shot! This is a littler further afield and is the wedding of my maternal second great aunt Mary Hamson, who married Bavin Lane in 1915, and you can actually see Bavin's brother Harry dressed in his army uniform (Harry actually married Mary's sister Nellie, who is seated in front of him, in 1919!). Once again, the colour also helps bring out the details that get lost in a monochrome world. Like Ellen and Patrick's photo, this one was also one I had low expectations for, although I don't really know why. This is my great grandmother May (who you've met before) and her older sister Ruby. I told you I loved Ellen and Patrick's family! I've actually talked about this guy before because he's one of my criminal ancestors - meet my maternal third great uncle Patrick Lawrence Gleeson! Definitely go check out my post on him, but in short, he was sentences for 15 years in gaol for manslaughter, and this is a gaol file photo. In general I loved seeing the high-quality photo and putting a face to the man who I had so many newspaper articles for, so it's a nice plus to have the coloured version! This one surpised me and again shows how much detail you can gain from the InColor process. This was taken during World War One, and one of the women pictured (no one is really sure which one), is Violet Johns, who was involved with the Oaklands Red Cross. It's not just monochrome photos that work with InColor, but also faded/aged ones! This one is of my grandmother Launa (third from left), with her sisters Joyce and Gwen, and their husbands, with my grandfather Fred on the right. There's nothing wrong with the photo really, but I was interested to see how it would come up after being colorised. Again, it's all about bringing out the details and making images look a little clearer - it's kind of like the first photo was taken in a dust storm and the second was after it cleared! I've not got too many, but I've loved seeing outdoor shots injected with some colour! I will say, InColor doesn't really have much variation when it comes to greenery, as I found with a few other images, but for this one of my great great grandfather's sheep it does a pretty good job! If it weren't for the horse and gig in that back, you'd think it was a recent photo! This is Private William Thomas Johns, who I've already made a post about. This photo is actually the only one I have of him, so getting it in colour is like getting a whole new photo! I think the military uniform is slightly off-colour, but I really can't complain. This photo of my paternal great grandparents William and Mary has been hanging above our couch in our lounge room for as long as I can remember. My grandfather, Fred, is sitting on his father's knee. It's always been a staple in my life, so actually seeing it in colour was amazing! It definitely gave it a new lease of life and made me appreciate it so much more than I already do. Ending with my great grandfather William's 70th birthday! Again, there's a bit too much grey here, but it's honestly better than nothing!
I've LOVED colorising all these photos and more - a massive THANK YOU to MyHeritage for gifting us all with InColor for a month to help us get through isolation. If you've not tried it out yet, you 100% need to go try it out RIGHT NOW - you've got until April 22 to take advantage of colourising an unlimited number of photos for free, otherwise you'll need an ultimated subscription to colour more than 10 photos. Happy Colouring! Victoria :) |
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