Travel back 110 years to Bavaria in 1912 & this remarkable & perfectly colour-balanced autochrome by Auguste Leon. He has matched the shawl & copperwear perfectly with the window frames & shutters to produce an amazingly cohesive effect. It is original colour (not colourised).

A rather striking, cleaned-up and digitally enhanced photo of London's Fleet Street in 1894, courtesy of yours truly.

Is it a watercolour painting, or is it an autochrome photograph? Ironiclly, the person it is attributed to produced both! In this instance however, it's an autochrome photograph, taken 111 years ago in Takapuna, New Zealand by Robert Walrond. It's an original colour photo from

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the BBC documentary The Exceptional Child, broadcast this day in 1964. The eponymous exceptional child of the titles was my 11-year-old uncle Derek! His portrait in the opening credits was drawn by the yet-to-be discovered artist Gerald Scarfe.

I've tweeted some photos this week which look like oil paintings & others which look like half-forgotten dreams. This is my favourite by Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne, which resembles a pastel sketch. His works are spellbinding. This is london's Waterloo Place in 1899

This is definitely one of my favourite autochrome enhancements from the First World War. The composition is like a classical painting, the light & colour are just sublime, and the clarity strips away the last 110 years to make it resemble a modern-day re-enactment. This wonderful

I take you back 176 years to the summer of 1848. I've cleaned-up and composited two separate photographs by Robert Adamson (1821-1848) & David Octavius Hill (1802-1870), to show the Assembly Hall and environs around Talbooth Church on Castlehill, Edinburgh.

Aplogies for not being active as much as usual the last fortnight. My free time is being eaten-up with research work and there just aren't enough hours in the day to do photo work for X as well. Here's an oldie but a goody. The Antarctic on 1st April 1911, taken by H.G Ponting

Wandering the county lanes of Pont-Saint-Vincent in north-eastern France, this enhanced autochrome was taken by Julien Gérardin 114 years ago. It was taken in colour in 1910 and isn't colourised.

This unusally elongated autochrome looks like it was taken on an iPhone, but it is actually a half-plate from 1911 (I've added borders so that X doesn't crop it too severely). The photographer is unknown, as is the location, but it instantly transports us back 113 years with its

During the Battle of the Somme in World War I - this autochrome was taken on Sunday 30th July 1916 inside the Moreuil mobile military hospital in Picardy, northern France, with seriously wounded soldiers tended by nurse Louis. It was taken in colour by Stéphane Passet 108 years

Sunset in the Somme: This is October 1917. Whilst the Great War raged across Europe, a passing moment of tranquillity was captured on autochrome plate by Fernand Cuville, looking over the sugar factory of Roye, in the Somme, Picardy, northern France. It's an original colour

A haunting gaze from 109 years ago, as the Great War raged acorss Europe, this anonymous Italian lady stares impassively into your soul from 1915. She was photographed by the physics lecturer at Sapienza university, Dr Ludwik Silberstein. This enhanced autochrome was taken in

Taken 118 years ago, in April 1906, this shot of San Francisco shows, in the middle distance, some of the devestation caused by the famous earthquake which rocked the city on 18th April: It was taken in colour by inventor Frederick Ives (using his own colour photographic system).

This amazing autochrome from the Great War was taken 106 years ago on Monday 10th June 1918. He is an Italian rifleman, adorned with his gas mask whilst stationed somewhere between Castelfranco and Asolo, Italy. It was taken in colour and isn't colourised.

This is Mademoiselle Paquin, a young student at the domestic school in Nancy, Francy, during the Great War. I've enhanced this lovely autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon which was taken 109 years ago in May 1915. It is original colour, not colourised.

I don't know why this 114-year-old autochrome shouts "Monty Python" at me quite so loudly, but this rather surreal depiction of the Sphinx was photographed in colour in 1910 by Dr. W. Simon. It is not colourised.

Photographed in colour 109 years ago, this striking lady tends flowers around 1910-1915, captured on autochrome by Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz. It wa staken in colour and isn't colourised.

I just love everything about this autochrome portrait by Fernand Culville - the quality of the light and the subdued colour palette. It's like an oil painting by an Old Master, yet it is a 104-year-old photograph taken in September 1920 of a young Catholic lady on a religious