Someone posted this link on my Facebook feed. It’s an interesting idea – colorizing old B&W photos; they seem to be fairly conscientious about it, too.
Then I got to photo #8. The guy on the left is my grandfather. 
I clicked the link to see if MY grandpa was in there but nope, just yours 
How cool! So he’s with Albert Einstein…how’d that happen?
Those photos are really great. Way different than any colorized photos I’ve seen in the past.
Cool. I found a piece which I assume must have been written by you including another photo from the same occasion. I won’t post the link but you might want to?
That is indeed my web page. Here’s the story.
My brother has collected it, plus other reminiscences in a book.
ha ha!
IMO, not one of those photographs is improved by the addition of colour.
(although it’s cool about your grandfather)
Very cool about your grandfather.
I saw these pics earlier in the week and thought they were nicely done because you really can’t tell they weren’t originally shot in color. (Well, I can’t, anyway. I’m sure our skilled photographer Dopers can.)
I love black and white photographs, but can also see how colorizing can lend a sense of currency and reality to them.
Thanks for sharing. Love the anecdotes about your grandfather.
Going from B&W to Colour, or the other way around, often leads to unrealistic looking results. It takes more than technology to get it natural looking, it also takes artistry and a sense of discipline. These are very nicely done.
On a side note, Audrey Hepburn was such a babe.
What a lovely story and thanks for sharing the link to your web page.
I think most of the photos are better in black and white except maybe the Hepburn one.
I think the one of the unemployed lumber worker made him look very contemporary and less antiquated.
Got as far as pic #9.
I’ll be in my bunk.
What a great story about your grandfather and Einstein. Your grandfather sounds like a fascinating man!
The Goebbels photo (11) is one of pure evil. Gave me chills.
Cool story about your grandpa!
There was a cool photo of my great-grandfather with the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk…supposedly he was a relative/friend? However, despite many in the family having seen the photo over the years - it was lost and never found again.
Some nice work with colorizing the photos - but I would agree - all of those photos looked better in the original B&W versions. Call me a purist, but sometimes the B&W gives an entire new depth to a photo and the mood and the moment in time that color seems to take away.