Ansel Adams, Juniper Tree in Sierra Nevada, 1938 colorized by Alex Y. Lim

Colorized a 1938 Ansel Adams photo of a Juniper Tree at Sierra Nevada.

Ansel Adams, Trees and Cliffs, 1954, colorized by Alex Y. Lim

One of the earliest photos of Ansel Adams, trees and cliffs at the Yosemite National Park, 1954.

Ansel Adams, Moon and half dome, 1960, colorized by Alex Y. Lim

Colorized a well-known photo by Ansel Adams printed in 1960 from a gelatin-silver negative. Ansel Adams captured the image at 4:14 in the the afternoon of December 28, 1960 with a Hasselblad camera and 250mm Zeiss Sonnar lens, releasing the mirror before operating the shutter to minimize vibration. It was one of his last well known photographs. Arguably, this is the definitive photograph of Half Dome and among the most famous images of Yosemite National Park . Colorized using creative liberties in casting an orange glow to the rock facade assuming that the half dome was facing sunset light opposite the rising moon. 

Pebbled beach on the western shoreline of the Batanes Isles, Philippines

Photo taken by Alex Ibasco in early 2018 and colorized with creative liberties on putting it on a sunset color setting.

Rock formation in the Batanes Isles, Philippines

Photo taken by Alex Ibasco in early 2018 and colorized by Alex Y. Lim.  Sunset was added, taking creative liberties in the colorization.  The  photographer was facing the western part of the Batanes isles where the rock formation was fronting the China Sea (Philippine Sea).

A Junkyard of vintage Pick-ups

Colorized a junkyard of vintage pick-up trucks from an undated photo by Randall Nyhof.  The photo was downloaded form a site offering copyright-free photos for PC wallpapers.

"Salvation"

Vintage photo of a woman holding on to the cross from the waves about to engulf her.  Colorized from a photo by Fitz W. Guern ca 1890 or earlier.  This was another studio shot using painted backdrops as Guerin is famous for.  Used some creative liberties to composite real waves, sky, rocks and the wood ruins of a structure on which the lady stood.  This may have been inspired by paintings of the Noah Flood waters reaching mountain tops teeming with people, this time using Christian symbol of salvation.

Horse and stuntman in the 1960 film "The Misfits"

Colorized an off-scene taming of a horse used in the 1960 film "The Misfits" starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.  The stuntman was  Ernst Haas trying to control a mustang on the set.  Used some creative liberties in the cloud formation on the background.

Two elephants on a journey

Colorized my first set of wild animals of Africa with this undated vintage photo of two elephants taking a journey against a summer sky  Photographer is a certain Mike Hayworth, downloaded as a public domain wallpaper.

Cottonwood tree branches in winter against a sunset sky, undated from online sources.

Experimenting with  Photoshop blending options with Tree branches in winter time against a colorized sky background.Even if the Photoshop version I use is already quite old (version 7 of the late 1990s), it does have some features I can use to simplify colorization

- the blending options.  Without this, I would have to colorize each and every space between the twics and branches of this cottonwood tree in winter.

Photojournalist Dorothea Lange, 1936

Photojournalist Dorothea Lange, known for her works during the depressions years in America, atop an automobile (model not named) in California, taken by photographer companion Paul S. Taylor, 1936.Her photographs bring the subjects alive while transmitting an emotional, even raw, vitality that captured the human condition.

Colorized scene from MGM's "Astro Kid", 1963

Colorized with some liberties on the background.

Colorized photo of American liberators as they watch the Eiffel tower fly the French Tricolors again

This is a colorized photo taken after the liberation of France in Aug 1944, as the tricolors were hoisted back to its rightful position atop the historic Eiffel Tower. Hitler had earlier ordered this land landmark destroyed along with the entire Pari when he heard about the upcoming liberation of the country. The City fell to German occupation on June 14, 1940, French resistance fighters allegedly cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, a soldier would have to climb the roughly 1710 stairs to the summit platform.

As Allies neared Paris in August 1944, a Frenchman scaled the tower and hung the French flag. When it became obvious that the Germans would lose Paris, Hitler ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz, the military governor of Paris, to turn the city into rubble – including the Eiffel Tower. General von Choltitz did not carry out the command. Reportedly, within hours of the Liberation of Paris, the Tower’s lifts worked again.