You should thank Clayton Wendler.

The photo of Lincoln is especially interesting.

The Buddhist monk... dude.

bad ass pic of that bomb going off

Agreed. I've always thought of that pic as being on a dark, cloudy day. But sure enough, there's blue sky up there.

I have never really thought about it much but I do suppose you could reverse engineer a shot based on the tones of the black and white to be in the ballpark of the white colors. Taking something from color to black and white creates a very specific imagine so theoretically you should be able to go backwards from there...but so much can change with the levels and filters. If you could guess with good accuracy one of the colors in the photo and work from there you could probably get good colors in relation to the tone of another.

Shit is all bottled up in my head.

almost looks fake in color, so peaceful up front, complete hell in the back

Clayton Wendler? I should probably thank who ever actually made these photos not who poached them from somewhere.

For some reason I have a hard time believing Churchill was wearing brown pants.

I bet that they are off at least some, but still, it's cool to think about it differently.

Certainly.

WTH is Abe wearing? No way that is what he was actually wearing for that photograph..

Why be brilliant when you can steal that brilliance?

I caught a glimpse of that "American way" photo and I'd swear that the 3rd guy from the right is danny glover.

Clay should of included that Pearl Harbor pic in the OP though, that one is insane