Frank,
That is just marvelous.
I am going to have to try something similar, it might just help restart my interest in photography.
In the meantime, I played around with your B+W ( I hope you don't mind ). Yours is a nice image in itself but I have always found that period images have their own look and feel.
Cameras of the day used large negative film - 4x5, 5x7, 8x10 (inches) and various other sizes and prints where usually made by contact printing with the negative in direct contact with the photographic paper. The result was negatives with very fine grain and detail and the prints because of the common photographic printing paper tended more to the warmer tones ( i.e. brownish or sepia ). Also, many lens provided a very sharp image in the center of the negative which became less sharp towards the edges of the frame to effect that some produced a vignette effect ( i.e. darker round corners ).
As I search around the internet for reference images I am continually astounded at the detail available in some of these old images where presumably the negative has been scanned at high resolution. I am sure you have seen this as well.
This example for example ( hint: zoom in )
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51370738089_787437259b_6k.jpgI spent some time messing around with your image using nothing more than Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Photos and tweaked your B+W image a bit to see what I could get. For what it's worth, this is the result:
cheers, Graham
