Clematis Kingfisher, Chelsea Flower Show 2023.

Chelsea Flower Show 2023. #bridge #hosta #garden #chelseaflowershow

Clematis 'Ice Blue'. Chelsea Flower Show. #chelseaflowershow

I've had a flurry of followers this week - almost 1000 of you - so I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you all! The enhancement below is a personal favourite, taken at the first Paris Air Show in 1909. It was shot in colour inside the Grande Palais, 114 years ago, by Léon Gimpel

Current mood at the end of a very long week! This timeless study of much needed "time out" was (amazingly) snapped in colour 116 years ago. The autochrome was taken in 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz and says just as much about today as it did in the Edwardian Era when originally taken.

That feeling you get towards the end of the week and your energy levels have run low. The same today as it was 103 years ago. I've enhanced for you this fantastically engaging autochrome from 1920, taken in colour by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. (It's not colourised).

Travel back a century to the India of the late 1920s/early 1930s. This stunning portrait by Maynard Owen Williams could have been taken today - it is so amazingly immediate and contemporary. It was taken in colour and is not colourised.

I've enhanced for you this stunningly contemporary-looking autochrome of the original Moulin Rouge - the famous Parisian cabaret venue that burned down in February 1915. This colour photo was taken by Stéphane Passet 109-years-ago, on Wednesday 24th June 1914 (4 weeks before WWI)

I have enhanced for you this striking autochrome portrait from 1919, Photographed in France, in colour, 104-years ago by Gustave Gain.

I'm aware that there's a small percentage of followers who enjoy seeing the original image, so - just for you - here's the file I worked on. Lots of issues with black flecking which needed removal on this one.

This chap in hoody & socks, doubtlessly listening to airpods in a souk in the Tunis medina, could have been photographed this morning - it's so remarkably contemporary! Yet this enhanced autochrome by Jules Gervais-Courtellemon was actually taken in Tunisia 114 years ago, in 1909

Taken in colour 106 years ago, during the height of World War I, this battleground scene by Paul Castelnau shows a French trooper in 1917, peering through the shell-hole of a bombed-out building in Woesten - a rural Belgian village of West Flanders. (It's not colourised).

For those who take an interest in the original autochromes, here is the untreated image, which had suffered a lot of colour-fading. The unworked autochrome is very heavily yellowed over time, so I have tried to push the faded blues to return some of its original colour-range.

Travel back 103 years to September 1920: I have enhanced for you this very striking autochrome taken by Fernand Cuville in the Ossau Valley, Basses-Pyrenees, France.

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On 30.11.1939 at 06:50 – 85 years ago, the USSR attacked Finland along Finland’s entire eastern border. The Finns responded as a unified front to the attack, and fought for their home, land, and freedom for altogether 105 days. #WinterWar #Talvisota85

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Sentiments of Venezuelans I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable. If you have never lived in Venezuela If you did not grow up there If you did not watch your country collapse in real time If you did not stand in food lines If you did not