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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: chinakay on Friday 06 March 09 06:08 GMT (UK)
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Hi everyone...I don't think I've posted this one before, a similar one perhaps. This is a Welsh ruin in which, I was told (when I was just a kid and not at all interested in family history) my gggrandfather lived.
It's very purple...could someone please restore it to a more suitable colour? Many thanks!
Cheers,
China
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had a little go.
xin
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Hi China,
I'm not able to restore photo's but had a go adjusting the colour and brightness. Would be nice to see "the ruins" restored to its former glory..... :)
Kind Regards,
Aussielass :D :D
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Hi,
One from me.
Cheers.
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Hi China...Hope this is a little better.
Carol
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...and one with a different tone.
Carol
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Xin! Aussielass! Teltoons! TotallyTrees! :D Many thanks for your help...the old pile of slate is looking much more natural now :)
The photo is taken from a scanned slide that's probably 45 years old and discoloured. I wish I had paid more attention to the family details instead of climbing on the rockpile.
I wonder if it's still there...
Again, thank you for your very excellent work!
Cheers,
China
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What a great pic to have in your already wonderful collection China...maybe you will have to arrange another trip across the pond in the name of family research ;D ;D ;D ;D
Carol
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Yes, I keep telling myself that :D
With everybody gone now it would be tough, though...I'd love to see this place again "in person"...imagining how life was in a house made of stones, maybe even finding an old plate or something inside...I don't know if I could even find it again.
I can dream, though :D
Thanks again TT,
China
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Had to give this a try, not sure what will happen when i post it though :-\
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It looks great, kaz, thank you very much! Much better than it was!
Isn't it odd how resistant the purple tone is...I wonder why...
Cheers,
China
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had an idea?!? (dont get them often ;D)
if you know the area (exact) maybe some one on here lives close by and could see what is still standing...
and take a pic for you?? IT IS A LONG SHOT>. but if I lived nearby I would love to do that ..cos its an interestin pic and to see it now would be great...
or then again, you could probably google the area and go on google earth and pic up an idea of the area today... (my grandson is always zooming in on that) .. I have managed to pic up some lovely shots of my old houses on google earth...
if you cant do it let me know the addie and I will ask my Grandson to search it for you...
let us know if you get anywhere with it...
xin
xin
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had another try for you, hope its not too green now, funny how the pics always look different when you post them in comparison to when you are working with them, well, we'll see, here goes
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slightly darker one
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Having grown up in North Wales, and been on various little trips to that area and seen what the Forestry Commision has done, I think that Carol's second image is most like what it should be like.
Really, it depends on the calibration of our monitors. I'm on my old laptop at the moment which has a blt of a blue tinge but on my super dooper, widescreen monitor set to bestest setting for graphics, Carol's second is nearest :)
Gadget
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Hope you don't mind me having a go, first attempt at anything. Unsure as to what it will look like posted :-\
Robert
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Hi everybody!
Thanks for another try, kaz, I appreciate it!
It is a little bit green, but isn't it interesting how some of the bits of slate have come out a perfect slate colour, where in the purple versions they were still purple. this is an odd one.
And I have boxes of slides like that ;D
Xin, I doubt there's anybody in the area. But I think I have mayyybe identified it on a map...it's down a forestry road. I have tried a couple of times to load Google Earth and it fries my system >:(
I can post a query on one of the Wales boards and see if anybody can pinpoint it...
Gadget, I think so too. I was back in the village about 15 years ago and don't think I took any pictures. Mostly I was trying not to get all choked up with the childhood memories that were flooding back... :-\
Cheers,
China
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Very impressive, Robert! Good on yer...and thanks for your effort :D
C
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Next time that I go, China, ( probably this summer) I'll let you know and you can tell me where to go and I'll take some photies :)
I trail around every year and each time I go, they get closer. It's a strange feeling to know that one's ancestors lived there all those years ago. I try to get a little plant from a nearby hedgerow :)
Gadget
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Dolwyddelan :D
I remember the heather and the gorse....
C
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And the smell of a coal fire, which you don't get over here, ever, takes me back to Wales instantly...
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Just in case anybody lands here accidentally, these ruins have been identified as Tai Penamnen or Pen Amnen, located about half a mile from the village up Sarn Helen. It's an old Roman road and it's in good nick for motor vehicles, or makes a nice walk as well.
Angharad James the poet lived here.
Cheers,
China
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Hi China, One from me. This looks like a home that a gnome would live in. :D , Tommy
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Ooh lovely, Tommy, thank you so much! This is a bit of a surprise...I was just updating an old thread. It's a super restore and I've saved it to print and put it in my Ancestry tree as well :D
Thanks again!
China
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Ooh lovely, Tommy, thank you so much! This is a bit of a surprise...I was just updating an old thread. It's a super restore and I've saved it to print and put it in my Ancestry tree as well :D
Thanks again!
China
You're quite welcome China. I'd love to see what the inside of that tiny rock home looks like.
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Just thought I would add my go:
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Another version for you.
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Hi China,
I just went for a walk around the roads near Tai Penamnen, obviously from my computer desk here in Australia. I thought I would share the link I found, it is all very interesting, as is the story of the history of Tai Penamnen. Kind Regards, Aussielass ;) ;)
http://www.streetview.walesdirectory.co.uk/Tai-Penamnen-p-11325.html
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Ooh lovely, Aussielass! I have been up the road in real life, wish I had paid more attention. It seems I have ancestors there all the way back to its beginning.
Thanks for this :)
Cheers,
China