Photo of The Day

[Ray Dunakin]

I just found out that someone on another forum has a whole set of photos of this building, which can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32193811@N03/

[Krusty]

Who would have thought of putting a cement mixer on rails?

[Scratchman]

Owls Head Transportation Museum

http://www.ohtm.org/edu_col.html

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[Mike Engler]

Is there a chance that the original photo was black-and-white? Maybe it looks a little like a model because somebody carefully colorized the original image. Kind of stirs the digital detective in me. -- Russ

  No . You can see by the clouds and wet pavement ( not a " sidewalk" ) that it has just rained and the sky can make photos look funny .

  Why would anyone want to colourise a black and white photo ? These buildings would appear to have been in their present locations for less that 40 years so they could have taken a colour photo to start with .   
              http://www.bclm.co.uk/about/the-museums-story/1.htm

This discussion was regarding a hardware store photo a while back, and recently there was another colorized version of a "Photo of the Day" on this thread of the Gordonton NC country store. The Shorpy black and white version is a 1939 photo by Dorothy
Lange. At least I don't think there were color photos in 1939. And as Nick states, "Why would anyone want to colorize a black and white photo".

I'm pretty sure I couldn't tell if a photo had been "colorized", but maybe Russ can.

Incidentally, Downtown Deco has an HO version of this store that is representative. I know that Dave Mason (mabloodhound) has done a lot of research on this structure.

[finescalerr]

Actually they did have color in '39 but they used a very tedious process to achieve it. I think the photo may be colorized because of the homogeneous coloration of the wood siding and it probably occurred after the advent of Photoshop. -- Russ

[Lawton Maner]

Not to want to be to picky, but the two photographs are different.  In one, the black gentleman in front of the door is drinking out of a can(?) and in the other he is looking at the man beside him.

[Mike Engler]

Lawton, you are absolutely right. Upon further investigation, there are several versions of the photo. Here is another. Perhaps Ms. Lange used color film for some of the shots?

[marc_reusser]

I have three Dorothea Lang photo books...and as far as I can recall, there isn't a color photo amongst them. And even if by chance she did, it would not be the atrocious abomination of coloration that is in that photo. This looks like it was done by a monkey with access to Photoshop.

[mad gerald]

This looks like it was done by a monkey with access to Photoshop.

... is this similar to "done with the artistic talent of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs - in a bag" ... ?  

[mabloodhound]

I do agree with Russ about this being colorized (well, isn't Russ always right?)
In all my research the only color picture is from the original building in my Google street view.   
Yes, the original building is still standing in Gordonton, NC and it was the Baynes Store owned by Ivey Baynes (that is supposed to be his brother Raney in the doorway).





And Disney's version:

[Chuck Doan]

I didn't realize that store lasted that long. I have seen much better colorized versions of that photo though.

[eTraxx]

Link to the full-size colorized version on Shorpy

http://www.shorpy.com/node/11281?size=_original#caption

[finescalerr]

Aha! It was indeed colorized. A wonderful photo either way. Thanks for the link. -- Russ

[mad gerald]

... these are waaaayyy cool ... aren't they ...  



linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts, author and owner of copyright: user Russss

... more?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/maunsell-army-sea-forts

... would be a perfect addition to an Ian McQue inspired diorama ...

Cheers

[marc_reusser]

Yes those are very cool. IIRC there are drawings and more photos of them in the book "The Architecture of War".....lots of other really cool stuff in the book as well. (Sorry too lazy to get up and confirm exactly what info on them is actually in the book)


http://www.amazon.com/The-Architecture-War-Keith-Mallory/dp/0394709977