ClicksyPicsWiggle animations and anything old timey!

1864 - Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Young girl at Aiken house

I fell in love with this image when I found it about 6 months ago.  Since then, I’ve struggled to imagine what to do with it.  She’s too stern to smile, her hands are fixed and her dress is too complex.  Then I noticed a bit of a wind blur where the ribbon on her dress is, and it occurred to me - the movement can be made primarily in the environment.  I focus too much on the subject when, sometimes, manipulating the environment can give it more of a real feeling.

Some details struck me when working with the full sized image.  She was married, and she was a very hard worker.  She’s young, yet her hands are scarred.  One nail appears to be just growing back in.  Her face shows a hard life, yet her hair and dress are immaculate, despite the windy day.  So I guess because of all these details, it was important to me to get her right.  Seeing things like that make the person more real to me and, hopefully, more real to you as well.

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1923 - The Girl in the moon

This is the same girl on the moon as in my ‘how are these created’ post below, just a different pose.  This is my first time attempting a falling pattern, can’t wait to try it out on a waterfall!

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View the original from the Library of Congress here.

Hopefully, “it” isn’t syphilis. Another image I’ve colorized, there was a series of these images created in the 20′s and 30′s, categorized in the LOC as “Glamour photographs”.

View the original image from the Library of Congress here.

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View the original image from the Library of Congress here.

To find out how these are created, go here.  Get page updates on Facebook here.

View the original from the Library of Congress here.

To find out how these are created, go here.  Get page updates on facebook here.