Having just had a look at the local internet stuff Facebook and
so on, there wasn’t much that grabbed my interest so I thought I had better
post something.
Regatta time in Ramsgate harbour in 1905 – well that’s what
the postmark says, so at least before 1905, looks to be invigorating.
‘fraid there is nothing on the back of the next two
My guess is that all four postcards are in the
1905 ballpark date wise, I think they would all use the photochrome or chromo litho
process, meaning that a black and white photograph is taken and the
photographer make a note of the colours in the scene which are applied as part
of the printing process.
I hope that the photos as published on my blog
will expand ok if clicked on twice.
I was painting in Canterbury today, only a quick
sketch as time was short, but it did get me to think about the colours on the
coloured postcards which were produced before colour photography was really
viable
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.