Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Let’s Face It, AI
AI-driven image restoration programmes are undoubtedly getting more sophisticated, and their use is clearly much more widespread than in the past. However, I still have reservations about how they treat faces. That little extra smoothing and additional touch of colour too often seem to change a recognisable face into something indistinct and slightly foreign. Interestingly, my AI-driven facial recognition software failed to recognise the AI-rendered restored image of Uncle Harry in today’s photograph.
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Industrial Memories
My less-than-comprehensive negative filing system has this one listed as “Industry, Sheffield, 1980”. I have a vague memory of taking the photograph, so I shall call it “Industrial Memories”. I like a…
Pub Of The Week – MacSorley’s, Glasgow
This week, my selfless and altruistic campaign to keep the great British pub in business took me north across the border to Glasgow. It was, of course, necessary to sample a good…
In Search Of Art
There sometimes comes a point when old photographs become more than just a historical record or a family memory and instead blossom into works of art in their own right. Sometimes this…
Glasgow Days
Some years ago, I acquired a small collection of glass negatives – photographs taken in and around Glasgow between the early 1920s and the mid-1930s. Today’s image comes from that…
Shoulder Of Mutton
In a single handed attempt to save the fortunes of that threatened institution, the British Pub, I have decided to embark on a series of visits to public houses. Where…
Memory Road
This is a scene I am so familiar with that I can almost physically feel its presence just by looking at a photograph. And it doesn’t matter that it was…
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