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These are glass negatives from c1890 to c1910 although some could be considerably earlier than 1890 and some are perhaps later than 1910, maybe from the 1920's or 1930's or later than that perhaps even. These photographs were taken by my wife's Great Uncle, Albert Black, probably with different camera's he may have owned. An Aunt of my wife (Marion) gave me 200+ Negatives (16 boxes) filled with these negatives, in the ORIGINAL boxes they were bought in. I will show you pictures of some...

In April of 1966, my parents took a trip out to San Francisco for the Anatomy meetings . Then in September they went west again to Oregon and toured the Columbia River. This blog is photos taken from a train on one of those trips. (Some are labeled with a place and some are not, so I can't sequence all of them) Smoke stacks in Chicago Train yard Pond and reflections Houses Sand pit and reflections near Denver Cattle from the train Water wheel Train ahead Winter Park...

My dad was an Anatomist -he taught human anatomy to first year medical students. And he was interested in photographing human anatomy whether real, or artistic. So of course he took photos of the Manneken Pis statue. Manneken Pis is the name of the statue of a little boy who is urinating - he supplies water to what was at one time a water supply for the city. Manneken-Pis - closer He no longer has that function. He was 'dressed' in costumes four times a year, but we did not see that...

These are my father's photos of the 1964 World's Fair which was at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, the same site as the 1939 World's Fair. My parents had also visited the 1939 World's Fair Unisphere (a stainless-steel model of Earth) New York Worlds Fair 1964. Unisphere is one of the few remaining structures that still exist on the site. It is the biggest representation of the earth on earth. There were lights for the capitols of the various countries (including one for the...

With the Z9, Nikon introduces its most advanced flagship to date, packed with groundbreaking features and several “world firsts” — but does it truly live up to the hype? Key Highlights of the Nikon Z9: Extensive button customization for personalized control Advanced subject detection supporting nine distinct subject types Innovative design with no mechanical shutter, thanks to the world’s fastest sensor scan rate Ultra-high-speed capture at up to 120 fps (JPEG) Continuous shooting at 20...

Before I start you need to know that I received Nifty from POTN member Tessa (in Estonia), who was a great host. She sent me the lens and packed it with a little Estonian doll and a fridge magnet. When I mentioned it in the Nifty thread at POTN the crowd of course immediately demanded to see pics of it. -.-.-.-.-.-.- Posted on POTN March 15, 2013: The postman didn't come this morning and I ended up having to go to the post office to pick Nifty up. Problem was it was raining. Steadily...

Daddy was fascinated by the way the traffic was directed - policemen with white gloves who were almost dancing. He took movies of them. German traffic cop German children old couple Mannheim street American GIs with a German girl - the GIs had access to many things unavailable to the civilian population Nuns Pforzheim snack bar - July 2, 1950 Between 30 June and 16 July we visited a lot of places in Germany and Austria. In those days, Germany was divided into 4 sectors -...

Photographing the Dark Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs By Allison C. Meier Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended into this “empire of death” in the 1860s artificial lighting was still in its infancy: the pioneering photographer had to face the quandary of how to take photographs in the subterranean dark. Allison C. Meier explores Nadar’s determined efforts (which involved Bunsen batteries, mannequins, and...

My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and Earle who were 20 and 24 years old. Willard Earle They wanted to visit their girl friends and neither one wanted the other one to drive. Plus my mom looked old enough to maybe make the girl...

The Snowflake Man of Vermont By Keith C. Heidorn Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer from a small American town managed to photograph the dizzyingly intricate and diverse structures of the snow crystal by combining a bellows camera with a microscope. =.=.= Photograph of a snowflake, by Wilson Bentley, ca. 1910 — Source In 1885, at the age of twenty, Wilson Alwyn Bentley, a farmer who would live all his life in the small town of Jericho in Vermont, gave the world its first ever...

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) Toward the beginning of this album of photographs belonging to Marinus Pieter Filbri, there is a series of shots of the phases of the moon; closing it out, a glimpse through the gauze of an insect’s wing, magnified eighty times its normal size. Intentionally or not, this juxtaposition draws a visual parallel between the unimaginable scale of celestial objects and the invisibly small realm of the microscopic, as if...

Canon Auto-Focus Explained, 2025 Update! with Rudy Winston In Februari 2022 Steve Brazill from the Behind the Shot podcast made a show called Canon Auto-Focus Explained, featuring Rudy Winston, technical marketing consultant with Canon USA. In the show Winston talked about Canon's autofocus system, particularly the one in the R3. Steve Brazill writes on his site that this show had roughly "453,000 views on YouTube, in addition to all the views in the video and audio-only podcast...

Tourists in our own reality: Susan Sontag’s Photography at 50 by: Andrew Milne This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. Slightly edited and renamed In Plato’s Cave, it would become the first essay in her collection On Photography, which has never been out of print. The breadth of Photography is immense. It ranges over artistic, commercial, photojournalistic, and popular uses of photography; and it discusses the...