City - Cincinnati OH - In the garden of Eden 1910 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
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City - Cincinnati OH - In the garden of Eden 1910 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
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Colorized photo from 1910
Original title: Up the Ohio from Eden Park
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 950 Eden Park Dr. Cincinnati, OH.
You are probably asking, why is the Ohio River blue? Well because in reality, its brown, like the Hudson river, a mud brown. But it reflects blue, and every postcard, every single one, shows it as blue. Mostly because a brown river wouldn't attract tourists, unless it was chocolate.
I colored this in as if it were Spring. I wanted to have a little more interest in the trees, and if it was all green, they would blend together.
When I did research, I couldn't find any info about the missing mountain. On the left there is a few large houses on a tall hill. But today, this land is not only flat, but is actually an overpass with a street under that overpass. Which makes me wonder why did they remove it? Or was there a terrible accident?
I couldn't find a good angle for this park, weirdly, as pretty as it is, there are only a few views, not many in google maps, so I couldn't really get a good look at it. Like are the baby trees in this, still there now?
I thought it was also interesting that the distant hills really are hazy, even today, if you look at that road, the background is in a fog. Often old photos have that faded look, usually I add contrast back, but this really did have that hazy look.
The date is confusing, they gave a range of 1900-1910, I found out that the water works in the background was built in 1904, and the stuff behind it in 1907, so I played it safe and made it 1910.
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