Old Georgetown in Color

This week on Old Georgetown in Color, GM returns to a photo he features a long time ago. It’s from August 21, 1924 and it features Father F.H. Tondorf, Prof. David Todd, and Father John S. Gipprish at the Georgetown University Observatory.

Although as GM noted previously, by the way they’re posed, it almost looks like a publicity shot from some community theater. It’s like “F.H. Tondorf, David Todd, and John Gipprish star this weekend in Ralph J. Simonsen’s ‘Catch a Rising Comet’ at the Davistown Country Playhouse.”

GM is still struggling to get the coloring just right. Particularly of things that are black or white. Nothing’s truly black, white, or even gray. There’s always a slight shade of some color, and figuring our how to add that color while keeping it still black, white or gray is tricky.