My Dad was out in the Northwest Frontier in WWI doing plate photography! I have just a few surviving images that were transferred to photographic paper as the hundreds of plates he had were all destroyed when my parents were bombed out, twice, during the Blitz in WWII. How did he bring back hundreds of plates from the NW Frontier, and how did he even go about doing plate photography out there since he lived on horseback (17th-21st Lancers)? Unfortunately I will never know.
The first sepia image is an original print from a glass plate showing a Massoud leader with a bunch of his warriors. The second image is colourised and cleaned up using ChatGPT. The third animation is courtesy of Grok as is the sound track – amazing stuff!
