Electric Colour

24/09/2026

I am now also on tiktok. As Electric Colour.I will only be reposting older images for now, for the reasons stated in my previous post. However I am looking at creating videos , mainly focusing on history.

17/09/2026

12/09/2026

A painting of Kumimanu biceae.
By Palaeontologist Mark Witton.

Kumimanu is an extinct genus of giant penguin, which lived around 56 to 60 million years ago. The type species is Kumimanu biceae, which arose after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
Fossils were found in New Zealand, and the discovery was announced in December 2017.
Kumimanu is one of the largest known penguins. K. biceae is estimated to have reached 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) in total length from the tip of the beak to tail, and weighed around 101 kg (223 lb)

12/09/2026

If you believe that Wicca is an Ancient religion , going back thousands of years then think again.
This is Gerald Brosseau Gardner (13 June 1884 – 12 February 1964)

Born into an upper-middle-class family in Blundellsands, Lancashire, Gardner spent much of his childhood abroad in Madeira. In 1900, he moved to colonial Ceylon. In 1911, he relocated to Malaya, where he worked as a civil servant. Independently, he developed an interest in the native peoples, writing papers, and even a book about their magical practices.

After his retirement in 1936, he travelled to Cyprus and penned the novel A Goddess Arrives before returning to England. Settling down near the New Forest, he joined an occult group, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship. Through this group, he encountered the New Forest coven into which he was initiated in 1939. Gardner portrayed the coven as a survival of the theoretical "witch-cult" discussed in the works of Margaret Murray—a theory that is now discredited. He supplemented the coven's rituals with ideas borrowed from Freemasonry, ceremonial magic, and the writings of Aleister Crowley to form the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca.
Gerald Gardner, the "father of Wicca", first also introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft through his Bricket Wood coven in the 1950s. He claimed that it was a personal cookbook of spells that have worked for the owner; they could copy from his own book and add material as they saw fit. He said that the practice of Witches keeping such a book was ancient, and was practised by the Witch-cult throughout history. According to tradition, Gardner claimed that the Book of Shadows was burned after a person died, so that it would not be discovered that they had been a witch.

He formerly introduced Wicca into the broader public in the form of his book 'Witchcraft Today ' in 1954.
Wicca draws upon ancient pagan and 20th-century hermetic motifs for theological and ritual purposes. Doreen Valiente joined Gardner in the 1950s, further building Wicca's liturgical tradition of beliefs, principles, and practices, disseminated through published books as well as secret written and oral teachings passed along to initiates.

12/09/2026

A painting of Velociraptor mongoliensis chasing down Zalambdalestes lechei ,by palaeontologist Mark Witton.
Both Animals lived in what is modern Mongolia during the late cretaceous period.

Velociraptor (commonly referred to as "raptor") is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park films. In reality, Velociraptor was roughly the size of a turkey, covered in feathers and considerably smaller than reptiles in the novels and films (which were based on members of the related genus Deinonychus). Today, Velociraptor is well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons. One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.
Here is a link to his website
https://www.markwitton.co.uk/

08/09/2026

The quality of AI colourisations and AI generated images is so good now that it has put many photo editors and colourists out of business, what would once take hours, or days now takes seconds and is so common now that groups are saturated with these images..to that point that even if the source of the original image is posted then people still claim its AI. And this is problem.. real images often have comments claiming they are fake, whilst fake images have people defending they are real..and a few you can no longer tell the difference.
Like a lot of colourised image pages and groups ,interest has dropped due to over saturation of colourised images on facebook and I will no longer be colourising images.
However there are still stories and things I would like to share..so I might turn this into a history page instead of closing it down..but my other attempts at doing that failed, it depends on the responses it get over the next few weeks.

I never reached the goal of 10,000 followers..but hey, too late now. Thank you to all those that shared the images over the last years.

03/08/2026

31/07/2026

William Thomson Hay FRAS (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian best known for playing authority figures with comic failings in several films, most notably as a schoolmaster. His film Oh, Mr Porter! (1937), made by Gainsborough Pictures, is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK.Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was also a keen amateur astronomer.

31/07/2026

The Bridesmaids at the marriage of Dorothy Gough-Calthorpe and the Earl of Malmestbury, 27th of April, 1905.
The bridesmaids were the Hon. Constance Calthorpe (the bride’s sister), Miss Verona Finch (cousin), Miss Aline Cholmeley and Miss Marjorie Maitland.
The reception took place at Elvetham Hall, Hampshire, the bride's family home

Colourised from an image taken by David Knights-whittome and Colourised with permission by Sutton Borough Council archives.
A link to the original.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pastonglass/30404372773/in/album-72157665467135266

22/06/2026

Yeah.. I really don't miss this at all...