1 October 1940 – Local Ceylonese fishermen with their out-riggers pulled onto the beach at Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

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IMAGE INFO
– View is taken to be looking south along the ocean waterfront.
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SOURCE INFO
– Original image captured by my late father-in-law, Driver Tom Beazley of the 2/8 Infantry Battalion Reinforcements, 6th Division, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, using a KODAK Six-20 Popular Brownie box camera, with KODAK 120 B&W roll film.
– His unit had a brief stopover whilst en-route to Haifa, Egypt.
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PROCESS INFO
– Digitized using a CANON Canoscan 8800F scanner.
– Initially part restored from the very badly scratched, very grainy & faded original quality, using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0.
– Later converted to color using MyHeritage AI online colorization tool, enlarged to 4K with Topaz Gigapixel AI & very bad film grain significantly reduced using Topaz Denoise AI.