Thursday, 24 December 2020

Christmas Eve view

 Merry Christmas! This was the view from my balcony at 4 PM today. 




Monday, 14 December 2020

Lady Susan and her horse (1900)

 Lady Susan Beresford (1877 - 1947) and her horse, photographed on December 15, 1900 at her home, Mayfield House, Portlaw, Co. Waterford (Ireland).

Lady Susan was a daughter of Lady Blanche Somerset (daughter of the 8th Duke of Beaufort) and John Henry de la Poer Beresford (fifth Marquis of Waterford, Lord Liutenant of Waterford and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Artillery, South Irish Division). She marriedthe Hon.Hugh Dawnay in 1902.
The original image in the Library of Ireland archive is here shown digitally hand painted by me.



Sunday, 6 December 2020

Winter sunset in Norway (1925)

 Winter sunset in Norway 1925. Anders B. Wilse shot this photo on Freuary 23, 1925, in Katnosa, Nordmarka, Oppland (not so far from Oslo). My colorization of the original image in the Oslo Museum archive (Digital Museum).




Monday, 30 November 2020

The first frosty view

Two days ago we got the first frosty morning view from the living room. (I´m afraid

 we will soon have much more of this ... :-)



Driving a Citroën in Oslo (1934)

 Driving a Citroën in Oslo (1934). I am not at all an expert on old cars, but I think this could be a 1934 model 15 AL cabriolet made in Germany by Papler. (Please correct me if I am wrong).

My colorization of Anders B. Wilse´s photo in the Norsk Folkemuseum archive (Digital Museum).



Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Spitsbergen Panorama (1880s)

 Spitsbergen panorama. Photographed in the 1880s by Axel Lindahl, a Swedish photographer who worked in Norway for several years. My colorization of an image in the Norsk Folkemuseum archive (Digital Museum).






Monday, 16 November 2020

The Joy of Dance

 The Joy of Dance. Three ballerinas at Den røde lykte cabaret theatre portraited by the Oslo photographer Anders Beer Wilse in 1920. My colorization of a photo in the Norsk Folkemuseum archive (Digital Museum).