My journey into the world of digital art, from manipulation to AI

Image source license  "The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the United States was created from closely related, Algonkian-speaking tribes: the Piegan, the Kainai (Blood), and the Siksika (from which the word Blackfoot derived). They were a powerful nation that covered the Great Plains of the North American continent. They were accomplished hunters and traders with posts that extended to the east coast and Mexico. The Blackfoot Confederacy is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. The Blackfoot Confederacy consists of the North Piegan (Aapatohsipiikanii), the South Piegan (Aamsskaapipiikanii), the Kainai Nation (Blood), and the Siksika Nation ("Blackfoot") or more correctly Siksikawa ("Blackfoot people"). The South Piegan are located in Montana, and the other three are located in Alberta. Together they call themselves the Niitsitapii (the "Real People"). Th...

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Image source license  Photographe Dorothea Lange

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.  (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) Image source license  John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Chief Quanah Parker of the Kwahadi Comanche 1892 Image source license  The last Chief of the Quahadi Comanche , Parker was both a major resistor to white settlers, as well as a leader in the tribe’s adjustment to reservation life. Quanah was born around 1845 to Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker , a white captive of the Comanche, near the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. After 24 years of living with the Indians, Quanah’s mother was recaptured in the Battle of Pease River by Texas Rangers. After his wife’s recapture, Quanah’s father was a broken and bitter man and soon died. However, before his death, he told Quanah of his mother’s capture from the whites and with that, other tribesmen soon began to call him a half-breed and before long, the group split. Source

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling. Image source license 

Scalping survivor Robert McGee - circa 1890 - Scarred after being scalped (at the age of 13 in 1864) Image source license  Robert McGee - colorized -colorization - color - BW

Sabbath Eve in Ludlow St. cellar New York.            Jacob Riis December 22, 1895 Image source license   How the Other Half Lives - New York.   Jakob Riis

Jules Gabriel Verne  1828 - 1905  Image source license  Jules Verne photographed by Félix Nadar  circa 1878 

Old peasant with dagger and long smoking pipe, Mestia, Svanetia, Georgia  Image source license 

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 – 1903) Image source license  Version 2 Frederick Law Olmsted - Wikipedia NATIONAL  ASSOCIATION for OLMSTED PARKS   NAOP

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833 - 1896) Image source license  Alfred Nobel - Colorized - Colorization Alfred Nobel - portrait -  colorized Image source license 

The church was hit on 18 February 1940. The church has been called in Finnish, Viipurin vanha tuomiokirkko, Viipurin kaupunginkirkko, Varuskuntakirkko and Agricolan kirkko. Viipurin vanha tuomiokirkko Kirkosta on käytetty myös nimiä Viipurin kaupunginkirkko, Varuskuntakirkko, sekä Agricolan kirkko (mahdolinen hauta). Kirkko sai osuman 18. helmikuuta 1940 "tuhon sunnuntaina" ja kirkon mukana paloivat myös siellä siunausta odottaneet yli sata sankarivainajaa.

Helsingin Hietalahden telakan työntekijät ihailevat puukaasulla toimivaa radion ääniautoa (häkäpönttö). Kuvalähde Yle Archives - Broadcast van for sound with a wood gas unit, 1939. 

Albert Pike ( 1809 – 1891 ) Image source license Albert Pike oli yhdysvaltalainen asianajaja, sotilas, kirjailija ja vapaamuurari. Pike toimi Yhdysvaltain sisällissodan aikana konfederaation armeijan upseerina. Myöhemmin hän nousi Pohjois-Amerikan vapaamuurareiden johtajaksi. Source

Zachris Topelius in 1898  Image source license Zachris Topelius oli suomalainen kirjailija, runoilija, toimittaja, historioitsija ja Helsingin yliopiston rehtori. Sakari Topelius oli viralliselta nimeltään Zacharias kuten isänsäkin. Wikipedia Topelius oli paljon muutakin kuin satusetä, mutta sellaisena hänet haluttiin muistaa – patsaasta nousi aikoinaan lihava riita. YLE linkki

Qi Baishi (1956), by Zheng Jingkang - colorized - colorization Image source license Qi Baishi ( 1864 – 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his watercolor works. Qi Baishi oli yksi tunnetuimmista nykyaikaisista kiinalaisista maalareista. Hänen alkuperäinen nimi on Qi Huang (齊 璜) ja kohteliaisuus nimi Weiqing (渭 清). Koriste ("valkoinen kivi") on yksi hänen nimimerkkinsä. Hänen maalauksensa aiheista ovat lähes kaikki, tavallisesti eläimet, maisemat, luvut, vihannekset ja niin edelleen. Hänen myöhempinä vuosinaan monet hänen teoksistaan ​​kuvaavat hiiriä, katkarapuja tai lintuja. Qi Baishi on tunnettu erityisesti katkarapujen maalaamisesta. Lähde

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) Image source license Edgar Allan Poe wrote primarily short stories and poems. He is best known as a horror writer, but he was also a pioneer of detective fiction and one of the earliest science fiction writers. Poe often used symbolism in his poems and stories to convey his views on life, religion, love, and death. Lähde ja lisätietoa

Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( 1813-1883 ) License

Suomen tasavallan ensimmäinen presidentti oli Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg .  Hän toimi presidenttinä vuosina 1919–1925.   Eduskunta sääti itsenäisen maan lait Ståhlbergin aikana. Kattava henkilökuva löytyy tästä . License

Richard M. "Dick" Brewer ( 1850 – 1878) circa 1875 Cowboy License Päivän kevennys Kit Harington (Jon Snow) the time traveler.   License