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From: Warp
Subject: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 12:09:30
Message: <47d2c84a@news.povray.org>
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.

  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.

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                                                          - Warp


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From: St 
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 12:50:57
Message: <47d2d201$1@news.povray.org>
"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~



>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 13:48:45
Message: <47d2df8c@news.povray.org>
St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>     You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice the boy 
> wearing a dress, (left, top row)?

  According to the caption that's "Rosa Lee Hatfield (daughter of Anderson)".
Might have a boyish face (at least in this photo), but most probably a girl.

> And is that, (shall we say), a 'short' 
> blond haired lady to the right?

  Who?

> >  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. 
> ;)

  One thing I find interesting in that foto are the "taxis". Quite different
from modern taxis, but already crowding places like that. :)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 13:51:23
Message: <47d2e02b$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   The amount of interesting detail in this photo is staggering.

I bet they spent *years* modeling it :)

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


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From: St 
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 14:13:53
Message: <47d2e571@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>>     You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice the 
>> boy
>> wearing a dress, (left, top row)?
>
>  According to the caption that's "Rosa Lee Hatfield (daughter of 
> Anderson)".
> Might have a boyish face (at least in this photo), but most probably a 
> girl.

    Ok, I missed the caption, but looking at all the females there, yes, 
they all have short hair styled like a man's, except for the blond girl to 
the right behind the boy holding the gun. Is that another girl possibly 
sitting on a chair?



>
>> And is that, (shall we say), a 'short'
>> blond haired lady to the right?
>
>  Who?

    The blond girl above.


>
>> >  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.
>> ;)
>
>  One thing I find interesting in that foto are the "taxis". Quite 
> different
> from modern taxis, but already crowding places like that. :)

      Heh, it's exponential Warp!  ;)

    Actually, one thing that did spring to mind in our (humans) favour when 
I first saw the image was: Organised.

     But then, ants are too...

       ~Steve~



>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 14:21:05
Message: <47d2e721@news.povray.org>
Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   The amount of interesting detail in this photo is staggering.

> I bet they spent *years* modeling it :)

  Yeah. 1:1 scale models. ;)

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 14:46:00
Message: <47d2ecf8@news.povray.org>
St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>     Ok, I missed the caption, but looking at all the females there, yes, 
> they all have short hair styled like a man's, except for the blond girl to 
> the right behind the boy holding the gun. Is that another girl possibly 
> sitting on a chair?

  "Levicy Emma Hatfield (daughter of Cap)", says the caption.

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                                                          - Warp


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From: St 
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 15:05:12
Message: <47d2f178$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg


      Look at the Dovetails on that wooden structure behind them.

      Brilliant! Ask a carpenter to copy that now, (in that scale) and he'll 
give you a competitive quote... ;)


       ~Steve~





>                                                          - Warp


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 15:10:00
Message: <47d2f298$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   The amount of interesting detail in this photo is staggering.
>> I bet they spent *years* modeling it :)
>   Yeah. 1:1 scale models. ;)

LOL.  Standing in a Cornell box?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Old photographs
Date: 8 Mar 2008 17:04:32
Message: <47d30d70$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:09:30 -0500, Warp wrote:

>   I apologize for the more blog-style posting, but...

...you don't have a blog? ;-)

Jim


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