Photo of the day !!

[Jamie-Lee Costello]

Pedder Street
Hong Kong
1870.

 

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Louis Armstrong..Billie Holiday & Barney Bigard
New Orleans
1947.

 

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Hollywood Icons
Rita Hayworth & Oscar Winner Orson Welles

 

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James Stewart..Grace Kelly & Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window
1954

 

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Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
1935

 

[Squirrel1]

First photo ever. Taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce Around 1827. Fist pic is the metal plate the image was shot onto and the second is the manually enhanced picture. It would have taken more than 8 hours to take this picture.

 

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How peacock spiders use optical illusions to woo females

 

[teddybaerli1]

First photo, ever taken, of a person. This daguerreotype was taken in 1838. On the bottom left, on the sidewalk, there is a man getting his boots shined. It would have taken about 10 minutes to take this picture. Other people had undoubtedly walked by, but the man was motionless so he showed up. The man polishing the boots appears as a blur because he was moving the entire time.

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Very remarkable! Thanks!

 

[Squirrel1]

Very remarkable! Thanks!

Yeah I thought it was pretty cool. There is talk that there might have been someone looking out of one if the windows, as well, but I can't find a high enough definition photo online.

 

[Squirrel1]

This is the oldest colour photo. Taken in 1861. It is a tartan ribbon. The photographer actually took the photo three different times with three different coloured lenses and then somehow joined them together.

 

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be thankful i spared you by not posting this one

 

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[boatnik]

Robert P Wadlow (1918 - 1940) from Alton, Illinois. Measured 8' 11.1" (2.72 m) at the time of his death at age 22 due to an infection. He was still growing.

 

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