A line of elephants leads the circus parade, followed by clowns, heading south l on 8th Avenue at West 48th Street, NYC… ca 1915-1920.
I don’t think I want to be the last guy in the parade, if he’s doing what I think someone ought to be doing, after a line of elephants passes by in a city street.
Wow… I just had to disappear for a while, discovering this photographer and his amazing work.
His name is, or was, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. A Russian chemist and photographer, he invented a method of taking color photographs in the early 20th century, before color film existed.
Above is his portrait of a Jewish teacher with his young pupils in Samarkand, now part of Ubekestan, about 1910.
Day before yesterday, Nighthawks posted another of his photos, a boy in a red brocade-like robe and white turban, which attracted some speculation… I found out it’s another youth in Samarkand, this one sitting in the courtyard of a mosque, also well over 100 years ago.
What Prokudin-Gorskii did was take three b/w photos in succession, as quickly as possible, using a different filter over the lens for each shot… a red, a blue, and a green.
After developing, he projected the images onto a single screen, using the same color filters, so they overlapped, and created a color image in light.
They couldn’t be printed exactly like that… but some prints were made using a three step process with dots of red, green and blue ink, similar to color lithography, or maybe Ben Day dots (used in early comics).
Czar Nicholas discovered his work, and backed him on a long journey, taking pictures of the Russian Empire. He fled to Paris after the revolution, taking as many negatives as he could.
It’s only in the 20th century that those rediscovered negatives have been digitally combined into real color prints.
What’s also amazing is that he could get his subjects to hold the same pose for 3 different shots. I’m sure that he was frustrated many times by a twitch, a breeze or any other distractio…squirrel!
This is “Les Novices du beguinage de Bruges”…. Novices and their convent in Bruges, Belgium …. 1954.
A beguinage was a special kind of convent. The novices are “lay sisters”, who chose a somewhat monastic life, but didn’t take vows.
They usually didn’t spend the day in prayer like the nuns, but did jobs for them, inside or outside the convent. They were the ones who cleaned, cooked, raised the chickens, and did the bookkeeping, or worked in town to raise money.
Apparently, this system has faded away… this was one of the last beguinages. Now there’s a different form of lay sisterhood… they do take vows, but play a similar role, though they can be married and even live outside the convent.
Nighthawks, I’m wondering why you chose this one? Am I missing something? It looks similar to my kitchen, but the colors are different and we have a microwave over the stove.
You just have to be careful not to make anything smoky or smelly too far to the right on the stovetop. 🙂
Actually, the burners seem to be centered under the hood, anyway. I’m not sure why they’re not closer to the edges of the stove, but in this case I guess that’s good.
I do wonder why the builder didn’t notice the misalignment long before the cabinetry was finished and the stove installed.
I guess I was too focused on the stove and the cabinets that were so like ours before the flood from a water pipe leak. The house was built in 1973.
We had to redo that entire side of the kitchen from floor to ceiling. Homeowners insurance covered most of it, and we did all our cooking and eating out on the patio for months.
Search was a little confusing because links kept leading to the wrong pictures… but this may be one of his illustrations for Stephen King’s “The Stand.”
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“Fred” appears to have some unusual footwear on his right rear paw. Or there is a human hiding back there.
It’s a dog bootie. Really a real thing.
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A line of elephants leads the circus parade, followed by clowns, heading south l on 8th Avenue at West 48th Street, NYC… ca 1915-1920.
I don’t think I want to be the last guy in the parade, if he’s doing what I think someone ought to be doing, after a line of elephants passes by in a city street.
Just like the little guy at the end of the parade in the Mr. Peabody and Sherman cartoons.
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Enjoy the moment, Dave!
I think he is “drinking it in” for all he’s worth.
That face is pure bliss!
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Gandalf recruits the Hobbits…
Wow… I just had to disappear for a while, discovering this photographer and his amazing work.
His name is, or was, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. A Russian chemist and photographer, he invented a method of taking color photographs in the early 20th century, before color film existed.
Above is his portrait of a Jewish teacher with his young pupils in Samarkand, now part of Ubekestan, about 1910.
Day before yesterday, Nighthawks posted another of his photos, a boy in a red brocade-like robe and white turban, which attracted some speculation… I found out it’s another youth in Samarkand, this one sitting in the courtyard of a mosque, also well over 100 years ago.
What Prokudin-Gorskii did was take three b/w photos in succession, as quickly as possible, using a different filter over the lens for each shot… a red, a blue, and a green.
After developing, he projected the images onto a single screen, using the same color filters, so they overlapped, and created a color image in light.
They couldn’t be printed exactly like that… but some prints were made using a three step process with dots of red, green and blue ink, similar to color lithography, or maybe Ben Day dots (used in early comics).
Czar Nicholas discovered his work, and backed him on a long journey, taking pictures of the Russian Empire. He fled to Paris after the revolution, taking as many negatives as he could.
It’s only in the 20th century that those rediscovered negatives have been digitally combined into real color prints.
Another….
“Russian peasant girls in front of traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the small town of Kirillov.”
What wonderful colors they wore.
Wow, that’s pretty amazing!
What’s also amazing is that he could get his subjects to hold the same pose for 3 different shots. I’m sure that he was frustrated many times by a twitch, a breeze or any other distractio…squirrel!
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The Not Quite and Future King…
The fellow at the far right resembles Don Adams (Maxwell Smart).
He kinda does!
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Ghosts!
Another beautiful photo from Edouard Boubat…
This is “Les Novices du beguinage de Bruges”…. Novices and their convent in Bruges, Belgium …. 1954.
A beguinage was a special kind of convent. The novices are “lay sisters”, who chose a somewhat monastic life, but didn’t take vows.
They usually didn’t spend the day in prayer like the nuns, but did jobs for them, inside or outside the convent. They were the ones who cleaned, cooked, raised the chickens, and did the bookkeeping, or worked in town to raise money.
Apparently, this system has faded away… this was one of the last beguinages. Now there’s a different form of lay sisterhood… they do take vows, but play a similar role, though they can be married and even live outside the convent.
It immediately reminded me of the “Ave Maria” sequence in Fantasia
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Mexican Folklorico dancer.
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Nighthawks, I’m wondering why you chose this one? Am I missing something? It looks similar to my kitchen, but the colors are different and we have a microwave over the stove.
Just a touch of poorly planned carpentry.
You just have to be careful not to make anything smoky or smelly too far to the right on the stovetop. 🙂
Actually, the burners seem to be centered under the hood, anyway. I’m not sure why they’re not closer to the edges of the stove, but in this case I guess that’s good.
I do wonder why the builder didn’t notice the misalignment long before the cabinetry was finished and the stove installed.
I guess I was too focused on the stove and the cabinets that were so like ours before the flood from a water pipe leak. The house was built in 1973.
We had to redo that entire side of the kitchen from floor to ceiling. Homeowners insurance covered most of it, and we did all our cooking and eating out on the patio for months.
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I’m sure they’ll be a big hit at the barn dance next Saturday.
And there was the chicken doing the Chicken Reel and the muskrat rambled on
The old cow did the Cow-Cow Boogie and the rooster crowed a song
A mouse came out of his hiding place and he danced on one leg
The old hen got so tickled that she almost laid an egg (♪♫)
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Oh, good! Still a couple of years for that jar in the back of my pantry!
Or even a couple thousand.
Opened or unopened?
Could be both, as long as it was reasonably covered to keep out excessive dirt. The Egyptians didn’t have Mason jars during the times of the pyramids.
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WOW!
Their chat doesn’t seem very chatty.
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My Sharpshin could do worse! Though I didn’t quite lose my thumb…
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A Franklin Booth aficionado.
He does seem to be an influence.
By Bernie Wrightson, 1987.
Search was a little confusing because links kept leading to the wrong pictures… but this may be one of his illustrations for Stephen King’s “The Stand.”
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Sorry, I only found one of them.
Got it!
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Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Peanut eating a dandelion, for Bunday.
Scarlet Macaw at Luna Lodge near Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica.
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