A slightly modified version of the image-meme seen floating around LJ lately. Apparently I cannot resist a meme that focuses on pictures.

1. Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive ( Read more... )

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I find these images more than a bit eerie, and quite fascinating:

Old photos from the WWII siege of Leningrad photoshoped and blended in with modern day images of St. Petersburg.

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Now this is just cool. The US Library of Congress has uploaded hundreds of old tourist photos from Norway. Not only are they from around 1890 to 1900 but they are in photochrome! Please, allow me to geek out and be a nerd, but I love the strange colours of photochrome.


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In 1928 there was a huge fair in this city, and part of the attractions of this fair was a photograph stand. It was called Pictures while you wait, and was literary that. In its time it was cutting edge technology, and people flocked to have their photos taken - and took the images home with them ( Read more... )

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The city where I live in is doing a wonderful thing. It is taking all the old photographic archives and making them available on the net. All the old photos left to the city or somehow in the city's care is being made available - with names if possible.

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So I’ve spent the day at a seminar on photography. From this I’ve learned two things.

1.When they key note speaker looks like the twin brother of Nathaniel Parker - aka Inspector Lynley among other things - and has a wonderful, honey voice it is extremely easy to get distracted. When he starts talking about the sensuality and the intimacy ( Read more... )