Pictures you didn't take

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Originally Posted by glatt

...Is this a daguerreotype?...

from Wikipedia:

The physical daguerreotype itself is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate. The raw material for plates was called Sheffield plate, plating by fusion or cold-rolled cladding and was a standard hardware item produced by heating and rolling silver foil in contact with a copper support. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface; it is very fragile and can be rubbed off with a finger, and the finished plate has to be angled so as to reflect some dark surface in order to view the image properly. Depending on the angle viewed and the color of the surface reflected into it, the image can change from a positive to a negative. The cases provided to house daguerreotypes have a cover lined with velvet or plush to provide a dark surface that reflects into the plate for viewing.

[Chocolatl]

Really neat picture, glatt! Who's the gal on the left?

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Musical two-fer:



Is it just me, or does Ibram resemble the young George Harrison (a little)?

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Elvis gave Ali a rhinestone fight robe. Ali wore it to his next fight. And lost. He never wore it again.



Elvis looks downright puny next to Ali.

[glatt]

I just learned that Google sent a StreetView camera down into the Grand canyon on the back of a hiker.

So here's a screen grab of a Mennonite woman, hiking in the Grand Canyon with a digital camera, captured without a blurred face, and posted in the virtual reality of Google's Street view.

It's a remarkable time we live in.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Whoah. Any info on that?

In case of lack of information, random speculation is also good.

OK, Zen, here's trick #2 for you. Pay attention because I don't want any injuries.

open a new tab and drag it away from your browser so you now have two browser windows. in your new browser window go to google image search.

drag the image you are curious about onto the search bar of the new browser. You'll then see a number of images, usually the same image, and you can choose the link to the site that looks most promising. Sometimes you'll only get visually similar images.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...aint-Malo-.jpg

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

So here's a screen grab of a Mennonite woman, hiking in the Grand Canyon with a digital camera, captured without a blurred face, and posted in the virtual reality of Google's Street view.

That may be a Mormon bonnet.

[glatt]

Good point. The Mormons are closer.

[Clodfobble]

Or maybe she's just a hipster wearing it ironically.

[glatt]

The rest of the party:
(Incidentally, they are not carrying much with them considering where they are on the trail. Most people at that point will have a large pack with a tent, sleeping bag, food, and water. They seem to have nothing, and they had to walk 6-7 miles to get to where they are, and they have 6-7 miles to get back out to the rim. Unless a raft dropped them off and they are hiking out.)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Bright Angel is a day walk, down to the river and back.

Some do the rim to rim, using the Bright Angel and North Kaibab Trails, in a day, but that's some serious shit.

[orthodoc]

The woman's covering is identical to those worn by northwest PA Amish women, except that she's got a lot more hair piled up and showing in front than the PA women do. They tend to pull the hair straight back, flat and tight. But the covering looks Amish. So does the hat on the man in a later picture.

[infinite monkey]

German Baptists or Dunkers (or Dunkards) wear those.

They make great coffee filters, too.

[footfootfoot]

Is that an Amish camera?

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photo taken by Phil Stern