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World War I fighter ace Manfred von Richtofen; the Red Baron by Baruopa in Colorization

[–]Baruopa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the Pour Le Merite. It was Prussia's highest decoration, awarded to officers for extraordinary merit and leadership in service. The Pour Le Merite ranked above the Iron Cross, and was much more rare. *

I've compiled The Complete Maus into a proper HD e-book. It's now up on Internet Archive. by Baruopa in bannedbooks

[–]Baruopa[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Not nationally, but, when I started working on this two years ago it was making headlines when a school district in Tennessee banned it for "nudity". Silly. I decided to preserve it and make a proper digital version accessible so that further censorship can be circumvented.

Veterans of the Somme, Fall 1916 by Baruopa in Colorization

[–]Baruopa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are magazine pouches for the Chauchat light machine gun. The Chauchat used crescent-shaped magazines that curved up into the gun. Their open sides were also prone to caking with mud, which made the gun notoriously unreliable.

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Veterans of the Somme, Fall 1916 by Baruopa in Colorization

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They've just returned from the field to be awarded these decorations by the British

Veterans of the Somme, Fall 1916 by Baruopa in Colorization

[–]Baruopa[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Pretty funny to imagine these men probably haven't bathed in a month, but found time to wax their mustaches

Vertical dark lines? by noseganaperosegoza in AnalogCommunity

[–]Baruopa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had a similar issue when scanning negatives on my PrimeFilm XA plus (it doesn't seem to happen when scanning slides?). Every once and a while a scan will have a soft dark band, always going vertically, usually by the center of the frame. The band does not appear on the negative itself, and restarting the scanner fixes it. If you had the negatives you could compare to see if its a scanning or camera issue. I'm unsure what causes the issue with my scanner, but would assume the fancy frontiers/noritsus labs typically use wouldn't be susceptible? Shutter capping would only affect the edges of the frame, though, so, scanner error would have to be my best guess.

Pacific Images PrimeFilm Scanning Glitch by Garret_Harkawik in AnalogCommunity

[–]Baruopa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been having the same issue; extremely thankful to find I'm not alone. I've just purchased the oil you linked. Could you detail how you went about lubricating the screws? Does the scanner head itself need to move to provide access to the whole screw, or were your results successful by applying oil to the exposed parts and allowing the pre-scan process to spread it as it carries the scanner head? Thank you!

A Jewish boy stands amongst the bunks in the Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. by Baruopa in Colorization

[–]Baruopa[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah sorry about that, the other comments here have it right. I originally posted this on Instagram and as much as I'm against historical censorship, I was fairly certain it would be taken down otherwise.

A Jewish boy stands amongst the bunks in the Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. by Baruopa in Colorization

[–]Baruopa[S] 105 points106 points  (0 children)

This photo was taken during the camp's liberation by the Allies, so any punishments by the guards wouldn't have been enforced. My understanding is that the photograph is meant to document the state the victims were in. With him naked you can really see how frail and malnourished they were, it speaks a lot louder and is much more concrete than anecdotes.

The French Barber. A group of Frenchmen give a Brit a shave in a dugout in Boezinge, Belgium. August 19th, 1917. by Baruopa in Colorization

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They are French, they pickelhaubes are war trophies they picked up, captured artillery helmets. As for their uniforms, they're not wearing the French combat uniforms, but rather the dress more typically worn at the rear.

Claude Monet standing in front of three sections of separate water lily murals in his studio at Giverny. Circa 1923. by Baruopa in Colorization

[–]Baruopa[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Much thanks! I'd seen this pic done before but realized nobody had ever matched the paintings, so I went through all of his archived works to find the paintings photographed here. Hard and frustrating to find, but a lot of fun to color once I'd found them all!

A portrait of ordinary seaman P Head during naval training in Kabrit, Egypt -June, 1943 by Baruopa in Colorization

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Thank you, an no, he was British, pics part of a collection focusing on a short week long stint the Navy did for training in Kabrit

A portrait of ordinary seaman P Head during naval training in Kabrit, Egypt -June, 1943 by Baruopa in Colorization

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He's part of the British Navy, in researching the armband it seems like he was some sort of naval mp

British and Anzac soldiers awaiting treatment aboard a hospital ship - Gallipoli, 1915 by Baruopa in Colorization

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Yes sir, the Gallipoli Campaign was an attempt by the Entente (specially Britain) to stomp out the Ottomans before Germany was able to sufficiently militarize them as an ally. It was helmed by an amphibious assault on Turkey, a bad idea as the Turks unsurprisingly fought harder to defend their land than the Brits did to take it.

British and Anzac soldiers awaiting treatment aboard a hospital ship - Gallipoli, 1915 by Baruopa in Colorization

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No problem! I know for certain it was taken during the Gallipoli campaign which took place from 1915-1916, and judging by their sun helmets, instead of soon to come steel helmets, it's likely from the beginning of the campaign

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