Muli monastery now and then - in colour

 I colourised Rock's photo of Muli from the 1920s and it makes an interesting contrast to what I saw in the 1990s.

 And here's my photo from around 1995:

 The monastery was shut down before the Cultural Revolution, but with more destruction during that terrible era.

Joseph Rock's photos in colour

 I hate AI but was curious as to whether it could work in colourising black and white photos. To be honest I'm quite impressed with some of the results I've obtained with ChatGPT Imageand Rock's photos. Here are a couple of examples. 

Tibetan nomad near Koko Nor (Qinghai Lake)

Reincarnated Living Buddha Lu Zo at Yongning

I have done quite a few more colourisations of Rock's photos and also some of the photos of Sun Jingming, a Nanjing photographer who visited the Kangding and Batang area in 1939.