old monochrome photos of early USA BBs are now colorized

[Tpaktop2_1]

 

A Japanese blogger took old monochrome photos of early USA battleships and colorized them to looking almost picture perfect. The ships are from 1895 to 1905

 

These are the ships in the blog report

 

BB-5 USS Kearsarge

BB-6 USS Kentucky

BB-7 USS Illinois

BB-8 USS Alabama

BB-10 USS Maine

BB-11 USS Missouri

BB-13 USS Virginia

BB-15 USS Georgia

BB-18 USS Connecticut

BB-19 USS Louisiana

 

The ships almost look like brand new from the docks. I thought the OP did a good job with the old photos.

 

Source:

http://www.guns.com/2015/07/09/amazing-colorized-images-of-1900s-steam-warships-10-photos/

 

 

 

[Guest]

They look just plain amazing, thank you for showing us this...it is truly something beautiful to behold.

^^ +1. 

[Moksie]

In case you missed it.  Also there is a giant thread buried with a lot of old pictures some fascinating stuff.

http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/6137-ijn-in-colour-image-intensive/page__pid__306037__st__160#entry306037

That bow shot looks sweet thanks man.

 

[Tedster_]

saw this topic, had a pretty good guess as to who it was.

 

for those interested, the artist's site is here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/

[redblurr]

They look just plain amazing, thank you for showing us this...it is truly something beautiful to behold.

^^ +1. 

 

saw this topic, had a pretty good guess as to who it was.

 

for those interested, the artist's site is here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/

 

This guy does some amazing work

 

Lookie what I found, ROMA!

[Tpaktop2_1]

In case you missed it.  Also there is a giant thread buried with a lot of old pictures some fascinating stuff.

http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/6137-ijn-in-colour-image-intensive/page__pid__306037__st__160#entry306037

That bow shot looks sweet thanks man.

 

 

And I thought that section was going to be fan art work and not photos too. Thanks for sharing. I have to check out that section more.

[chaplainDMK]

The photo of USS Connecticut is probably the most glorious of a warship I've ever seen.

 

Anyone has any info on why the "Great White Fleet" was painted in such a conspicuous color scheme? It looks amazing, but I'd imagine it was maintenance heavy to keep them looking tip-top. I guess that was the point, to show everyone that the US could not only build a huge number of excellent warships in a short time and send them around the world, but also maintain them to the highest possible degree. 

[BrushWolf]

While I usually prefer the original black & white photography of the era he has done an amazing job of making them look like they were taken in color.