"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospamgmailcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>>>  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. :)

      LOL - I doubt it, cheese has probably been around for some time, but 
the word 'cheese', yeah, I can see these guys not knowing that word for some 
reason. I dunno. Back then, I doubt if a smile would be raised by one of 
them burping...

  Thinking about it though, they didn't have the concept of another person 
'seeing' a picture of them. So why would they smile?


>
> and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years 
> away...

     Yeah, well, that's just trashed my last sentence above.    ;)

        ~Steve~

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