nemesis wrote:
> St. wrote:
>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
>> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>>>  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
>>     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.
> 
> The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see 
> anyone smiling.  Hard time indeed.  Either that or "cheeeese!" was still 
> to be invented. :)
> 
> and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years 
> away...

You try standing still for 5 hours, waiting for the film to be 
completely exposed (or whatever the term was), and see if you can smile 
the whole time ;)

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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