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

Albert Schweitzer (1875- 1965) Image source license  Albert Schweitzer was a German-French theologian, musician, musicologist, philosopher and physician. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. Peace Prize of German Bookshops 1951 , Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt 1928. "Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das leben will." "I am life, that wants to live amidst life that wants to live." 

Johnson with the Washington Senators in 1924   Walter Johnson   (Born: November 6, 1887 – Died: December 10, 1946) Image source license  In May 1918, Johnson pitched 40 consecutive scoreless innings; he is the only pitcher with two such 40+ inning streaks. Although he often pitched for losing teams during his career, J ohnson finally led the Washington Senators to the World Series in 1924, his 18th year in the American League. Wikipedia

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 

The real name of the American author Mark Twain was Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). Image source license  A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907

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 

Harry Yount in 1873 Image source license  Henry S. Yount (March 18, 1839 – May 16, 1924) was an American Civil War soldier, mountain man, professional hunter and trapper, prospector, wilderness guide and packer, seasonal employee of the United States Department of the Interior, and the first gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park. He was nicknamed "Rocky Mountain Harry Yount". Henry S. Yount (18 maaliskuu 1839 - 16 toukokuu 1924) oli yhdysvaltalainen sisällissotasotilas, vuoristo mies , ammatti metsästäjä ja turkismetsästäjä, malminetsijä, erämaa opas ja pakkaaja, kausityöntekijä Yhdysvaltain sisäasiainministeriössä  ja ensimmäinen vartija Yellowstonen kansallispuistossa. Hänen lempinimensä oli "Rocky Mountain Harry Yount". Source

Albert Einstein  Image source license Albert Einstein ei esittelyjä kaipaa, mustavalkoisen kuvan värittämisen lisäksi tein myös GIF -tiedoston, johon lisäsin pienen hymyn. Albert Einstein - Smile - GIF

Félix Bonfils (8 March 1831 – 1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. Félix Bonfils, Wool Carder, Palestine, 1880. Image source license Félix Bonfils, Arab man smoking pipe , late 1800s . Image source license Félix Bonfils, Bedouin violin players (Joueurs de violon bedouins) Image source license Library of Congress -  American colony photographers American colony photographers, Bedouin woman in Jerusalem Image source license These ones colorization was originally published in my old blog 2015.

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