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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: doonayr on Monday 12 March 18 22:43 GMT (UK)
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Could ttis photo please be improved? Many thanks !
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There is no photo attached doonayr
Sarah
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Ther4e definately was a picture attached. You are either blocking me for some reason I no know not why or you need to fix your web site. I have tried so many times that I feel you are being totally vindictive in this instant. I will be relaying
Doonayr, there is no image that I can see, no I am not blocking you I have been trying to help you attach your images, my comment is simply to let you know that the image did not attach please see this link that may help you work out what you are doing wrong.
Regards
Sarah
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I have just checked my emails and can see that you have emailed me personally the picture with no message that has gone into my spam folder.
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There were a number of problems that were stopping the image load.
Images was too large at 4.6m, I have resized it for you.Image filename has unusual characters lots of - _ and /'s I have renamed the file for you.
Sarah
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Hi doonayr
This restore is challenging for me but I'm having a crack at it. I'm sure others are too. It'll take me another day or two to finish the job but here's a first 'work in progress' version. Still lots of cracks to fill and creases to iron out but I'm slowly getting there :)
Mike
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Thank you so much as it is the only picture of my grandfather as a child in my possession, He is in the back row holding his bagpipes third in from left.
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My try.
Peter
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My try.
Mike
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Both pictures look incredible as if they had just been taken.. Fantastic job. Many thanks to you both for your time and ability to bring the past back to life. Many, many thanks ! Doonayr
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Thanks, Doonayr, I'm glad you like them! The photo was interesting to work on - a bit like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Like trying to figure out whether a 'white curving line' across someone's chest was a crack/crease (damage) or a lanyard that was part of the uniform. The same applies to 'white dots': were they "damage" or buttons/badges? Gradually I got a better idea of what different uniforms looked like, what to leave and what to remove.
Do you have any more information about this group? I'd be interested to learn more. There are youngsters with different uniforms, adult bagpipe players, there were drummers and there's a pile of brass instruments in the foreground. Some kind of marching band I would guess. But I'm curious about the mix of adults and youngsters (and the military-looking uniforms).
Just curious,
Mike
Both pictures look incredible as if they had just been taken.. Fantastic job. Many thanks to you both for your time and ability to bring the past back to life. Many, many thanks ! Doonayr
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Thanks for your kind words, doonayr. :D
Peter
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Where did the weird spelling come from?
It should be Katzenellenbogen = cat's elbow, though I don't know what the significance is.
Later: just discovered it's a small town (not much more than a village) in the Taunus region,
and is spelled (somewhat irregularly) Katzenelnbogen
Anyway, you folks did brilliant jobs on the photo -- especially considering there wasn't want attached!
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I remember it as the title of a song when I was little ;D :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjTmXT58nk
It's a place in Germany.
Carol
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Where did the weird spelling come from?
It should be Katzenellenbogen = cat's elbow, though I don't know what the significance is.
Isn't it a variety of wine?
I also remember the song : "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the sea".
But ... I am (vaguely) related to the KATZENELLENBOGEN Family, so I found this snippet quite interesting.
Roughly translated, it means
[1] A corruption of the hebrew Kazim Elim Bochen - translated: the sole leader of the tribe.
regards,
Bob
Google Books (https://books.google.de/books?id=Er7lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT389&lpg=PT389&dq=Kazim+Elim+Bochen&source=bl&ots=3agQx8LMbK&sig=-tYsldyPEX-156uh7wvajB8XTMo&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD2c6-2u7ZAhXG16QKHdYEA-kQ6AEIMTAA#v=onepage&q=Kazim%20Elim%20Bochen&f=false)
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Thanks for the origin of the name, Bob. I did wonder whether cats have elbows!
The word Verballhornung is often translated as bowdlerization, but in fact Johann Ballhorn was no Bowdler. Far from deliberately "cleaning up" the classics to make them suitable reading for young ladies, he was simply incompetent and introduced so many errors in his legal texts that they sometimes meant quite the opposite of what was intended.
In this case it just means popular etymology.