Please keep posting your outstanding photos, Jim. They are a priceless body of work showing an innocent time when the term “politically correct” didn’t exist. Your photos have a sense of honesty, fun and natural dignity toward your subjects. Hold your head high as a true artist and ignore the few naysayers.

Timmers, I understand your point about colorizing someone else’s B&W photo being totally wrong. I agree with you Timmers. However, Jim is colorizing HIS OWN PHOTOS, which is an entirely different thing and certainly within his creative choice. He is having fun editing his beautiful body of historical photos and sharing a different aspect of the photos with the UHH community, for which we should be grateful.

By the way…how do I quote the comment I’m replying to?

Art is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.”

― to paraphrase Molière

Beautiful photo, Jim, well done colorization. I love your work—please continue sharing it on UHH.

Beautiful images, sensitive and serene.

Thank you for sharing so many of your outstanding photos. I love the refreshing honesty, innocence, and genuine sense of fun you capture in your work. This is much more important than technical perfection. Your work has life!

I’m an artist and photographer doing color critical work and have been making my own prints for 25 years for collectors. When my expensive Eizo monitor died several years ago, I tested several monitors and was stunned by the high quality of the BenQ SW240 24 inch monitor. It only costs $399. (My old Eizo cost ten times more—and the BenQ is just as good.) my other monitor is a iMacPro 5K 27 inch which I use more for video than Retouching or Art. I prefer the 24 inch screen for my workflow. Here's a link to the BenQ SW240 at amazon: https://www.amazon.com/BenQ-SW240-Computer-Factory-Calibration-Calibration/dp/B07CCQGFFG/ref=sr_1_3?crid=38YPG4IFLV3VM&keywords=benq%2Bsw240%2Bmonitor&qid=1697611408&sprefix=BenQ%2Bsw240%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-3&th=1

Thanks for sharing your good work.

Jim, thank you for sharing this beautiful photo from your treasure trove of Plus-X photos. Your wonderful photos are an honest artistic look at the special connection -however brief - between artist and model, resulting in a timeless piece of art. You may or may not consider yourself an artist, but I certainly do. I find the beach and inland locations fascinating because each encounter with a model is different. Thank you for all your hard work curating the collection and preparing them for posting. Please continue sharing with us.

Sadly this spectacular car was severely damaged in a California wildfire a few years ago. However it is rising from the ashes and will live again. Here’s the story: https://www.shutterbulky.com/buick-streamliner-got-second-chance-after-fired/

Jim, I hope my experience helps and wish you many years of enjoyment in front of whatever new monitor you device to buy. Another benefit of the BenQ monitor is their excellent calibration program at no cost. It calibrates the hardware, not simply a software calibration, which results in more accurate results. It works with a calibration device like those by x-rite or spider, which you supply. —Dan

DanDe:
This is the monitor I believe I will opt for. (By the way, the link you posted is for the older version of this monitor and is no longer available, I believe. Current SW270C link is:
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/photographer/sw270c.html[/quote]

Tony, thank you for the update on the new monitor. Whatever you decide, I hope you enjoy creating beautiful things with it. — Dan

Hello. I've been a fine art photographer, fine art painter and printmaker. I use the Adobe CC suite in all my work. Accurate color in the adobe1998 color space is very important to me as I print my own photos and art. I have owned Eizo CG series monitors ($3000 to $6000) but a few years ago I was introduced to the BenQ Photographer Monitor series. The quality of This series is remarkable when compared to the expensive Eizo CG series is just as good at a fraction of the price. I have used both monitors below and highly recommend them. I actually prefer the 24 inch SW240 for post-production work, but you may prefer a larger monitor. The SW240 is a bargain at $399. And the SW270C is $799.

Either of these will give you excellent results at a reasonable price with your new Apple Studio. I wish you the best.

24 inch Photo Editing Monitor | SW240 -- $ 399
24.1" 1920x1200 WUXGA 16:10 IPS Monitor for Photo Editing
99% Adobe RGB, 100% sRGB, 95% DCI-P3 color coverage with factory-calibration report
10-bit color depth with 14-bit 3D LUT Hardware Calibration
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/photographer/sw240.html

27 inch Photo Editing Monitor, 2K Adobe RGB | SW270C --- $ 799.99
27" 2560x1440 QHD 16:9 HDR10 IPS 2K Monitor for Photo Editing
99% Adobe RGB Color Space with IPS Panel and Uniformity Tech for Screen-wide Color Accuracy
USB-C Connectivity with Power Delivery
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/photographer/sw2700pt.html