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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: mudge on Monday 05 March 07 11:42 GMT (UK)
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A pici of my G/F taken in Hong Kong
Mudge
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Here you are Mudge .... all nice and clean ! :-*
Poll
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Thanks Poll :-*
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Poll
Your standards are slipping :o :o :o
You didn't translate the chinese for me ;D ;D ;D
Mudge
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It says "All the nice girls love a sailor " :P... but I didn't want to embarrass you !
Poll ;)
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You will not do that ::) ::) ::)
I know the rest of the song, both versions ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Mudge
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Photographer's A King, wonder if it's one of my lot ;D
Suppose the syllable "king" would transliterate well into Chinese, as it's a syllable that sounds like it would fit well in the Chinese language.
Or would he have just translated the word king into the Chinese word for king, if there is one (they had emperors, but did they have kings)?
Any guesses, anybody?
Cheers,
China
BTW Mudge, no luck finding the photographer for dating, sorry
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Here is my for you,
Jim
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...and another
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Hi Mudge
Here's a couple more
David
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Wow .... thank you all for your time and brilliant restores
Mudge
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You're welcome Mudge ...you work hard on here .. as I always say ..
".What goes round comes round !" ;)
Thanks for bumping up the card for Yvonne too ... :-*
Poll
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Thank you for organising it ;)
Mudge
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Hi Mudge
A bit of colour and an antique effect. The wonderful clean ups were David's, I hope you don't mind David and I hope you approve of what I have done with your lovely restore.
Cheers
Lones
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One from me with Lones's beautiful colouring.
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Beautiful Genie, really lovely
Lones
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Shared credit .... a combined effort all round!! :) :) :)
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Well done the two of you. Lovely results.
Thanks for time and effort put in by all restorers
Mudge
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Could the photographer be "A HING" rather than King? A chinese name, probably what the chinese characters say (not quite as exciting as "All the nice girls love a sailor"!!)
Prue
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And a couple from me.
Caz
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And just for fun...
Caz
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Oooh I like that effect Caz :o :o
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Thanks Caz, immaculate as usual :o :o :o
Mudge :)
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Mudge - glad you liked the clean up
Lones - I do not mind at all feel free. The colourings are superb and the same with everyone else's restores.
David
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Hi Prue,
Kind of unusual to find a Chinese businessman using an initial, maybe? Didn't/don't they use a full name like Wing Wong or Ping Bao, AND, the family name comes first in Chinese anyway. Also, having perused page after page after page after page after page after....Sorry, got kind of carried away there...<ahem> as I was saying having looked at a lot of the name King in census page handwriting, I think it's "King".
China ;D ;D ;D
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oooer Caz :o How did you do that ??? Great effect ..It looks like the old Spirograph patterns.. Anyone remember them .. arty toys from the 70 s!
Poll :)
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Weren't they from the sixties?
Mudge
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Cazza,
Nice effect , it puts a whole new twist on it . ;D
I shall have to experiment with it.
Jim
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;D ;D
I only did it cos I know Mudge likes special effects, I actually thought everyone would hate it as not really in keeping with the period of the photo but it was fun! ;D ;D ;D
Caz
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PS Poll..spirograph is still around...daughter has a set!!
Caz
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,,,Love your new avatar Caz .. says it all ! ;D I'm ploughing my way through a tutorial on photoshop.. and thats exactly how I'm feeling ... Maybe I've had too much champagne.... ::)
Poll ;)
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Photographer's A King, wonder if it's one of my lot ;D
Suppose the syllable "king" would transliterate well into Chinese, as it's a syllable that sounds like it would fit well in the Chinese language.
Or would he have just translated the word king into the Chinese word for king, if there is one (they had emperors, but did they have kings)?
Any guesses, anybody?
Cheers,
China
BTW Mudge, no luck finding the photographer for dating, sorry
Just seen this - four years late. You probably know by now that it isn't 'King', it's 'Hing'. Could mean something like 'rising' or 'elevated' or 'prosper'. Another use: Go Hing means happy.
BTW, Cantonese for 'king' is Wong (written as saam waak Wong, i.e. three horizontal strokes with a single vertical line in the middle.)
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Ah, I see. Well, thanks for that, chiboy :)
Cheers,
China (no, I'm not from China :))
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Ah, I see. Well, thanks for that, chiboy :)
Cheers,
China (no, I'm not from China :))
I think I've found your photographer. His full name (maybe in fact his business name) was Tung Hing.
You'll need to scroll through the link (below) a bit and look closely to find him.
I'd bet money that this is our fellow. It's a shame that most of the really talented Chinese photographers of the period have been ignored by history. You'll read how westerners on a visit to Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 19th C. sought out these esteemed photographer guys, whose reputation carried around the world even back then. A bit like how the really great tailors of today here in Hong Kong are well-known by the cognoscenti in New York, London and so on.
The article is really worth a look all through. PM me if you can't make the link work.
http://www.old-japan.co.uk/_china/article_china.html
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That's an interesting read. I have sent a PM to the person who started this thread, so hopefully he will see it.
Cheers,
China
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Mudge has been missing for over a year :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Irene
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I know, but his last online was in October. If it was him. :-\