Pictures you didn't take

[BigV]

funneh!

[ZenGum]

I still think they look like techno-boomerangs.

[Gravdigr]

As much as they cost, they damn well better come back!

[glatt]

The woman on the right is my great grandmother. She lived in Brooklyn, so this would have been just a little ferry trip for her. She was born in 1872. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886. I'm going to guess this was taken in the mid 1890s, since she looks to me like she's in her 20's. Hard to tell if that's a wedding ring on her finger.

My cousin took this digital picture of a glass plate image. The image is reversed, since that's how the glass plates came out. I'm not that familiar with the early photo technology. Is this a daguerreotype?

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool. She's from the side of the family that had some money back then and that could do things like dress up nice and get a portrait taken. Nice hat.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

...Is this a daguerreotype?...

from Wikipedia:

The physical daguerreotype itself is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate. The raw material for plates was called Sheffield plate, plating by fusion or cold-rolled cladding and was a standard hardware item produced by heating and rolling silver foil in contact with a copper support. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface; it is very fragile and can be rubbed off with a finger, and the finished plate has to be angled so as to reflect some dark surface in order to view the image properly. Depending on the angle viewed and the color of the surface reflected into it, the image can change from a positive to a negative. The cases provided to house daguerreotypes have a cover lined with velvet or plush to provide a dark surface that reflects into the plate for viewing.

[Rhianne]

I like how they're looking down, the camera near the ground to fit everything in. I'm none too expert on these photos either, does it look real or does it look just a little like they might be posing next to a picture of the statue rather than the real thing?

And look at all those aircraft (alien spaceships?) flying around everywhere!

[glatt]

My first thought when I saw this was that it was fake. A studio backdrop. But that grass in the foreground is real, and so is the packed dirt at the foot of the bench they are sitting on. And she lived in NYC, just a few miles from the real statue.

But still...

[glatt]

[Chocolatl]

Really neat picture, glatt! Who's the gal on the left?

[Gravdigr]

Musical two-fer:



Is it just me, or does Ibram resemble the young George Harrison (a little)?

[Gravdigr]

Elvis gave Ali a rhinestone fight robe. Ali wore it to his next fight. And lost. He never wore it again.



Elvis looks downright puny next to Ali.

[glatt]

I just learned that Google sent a StreetView camera down into the Grand canyon on the back of a hiker.

So here's a screen grab of a Mennonite woman, hiking in the Grand Canyon with a digital camera, captured without a blurred face, and posted in the virtual reality of Google's Street view.

It's a remarkable time we live in.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

So here's a screen grab of a Mennonite woman, hiking in the Grand Canyon with a digital camera, captured without a blurred face, and posted in the virtual reality of Google's Street view.

That may be a Mormon bonnet.

[Clodfobble]

Or maybe she's just a hipster wearing it ironically.

[glatt]

The rest of the party:
(Incidentally, they are not carrying much with them considering where they are on the trail. Most people at that point will have a large pack with a tent, sleeping bag, food, and water. They seem to have nothing, and they had to walk 6-7 miles to get to where they are, and they have 6-7 miles to get back out to the rim. Unless a raft dropped them off and they are hiking out.)