"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>  I apologize for the more blog-style posting, but...
>
>  Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The older
> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this 
> photograph
> taken in 1897:
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
>
>  Even though this is just a posed photo (and they have clearly suited up
> for the photo instead of being their casual clothes) you can still read a
> lot from the photo when you really start to examine it. It can excite your
> imagination a lot if you study it long enough.

    You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice the boy 
wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we say), a 'short' 
blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think about what the mindset of 
these people was like back then. Hard times indeed.



>
>  Or take for example this panoramic photo of RMS Lusitania taken in 1907:
>
>
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/The_Lusitania_at_end_of_record_voyage_1907_LC-USZ62-64956.jpg
>
>  The amount of interesting detail in this photo is staggering.

     All I see is that we are more powerful than ants with that ship there. 
;)

       Nice images.

        ~Steve~



>
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>                                                          - Warp

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