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Photo of Theodore Roosevelt atop swimming moose debunked
Photo of Theodore Roosevelt atop swimming moose debunked
Published September 24, 2013
FoxNews.com
Avid outdoorsman Theodore Roosevelt led the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill, but the robust, larger-than-life president reportedly never rode a moose through water.
Heather Cole, curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, recently debunked the image, which was part of a 1912 collage created by photography firm Underwood and Underwood called “The Race for the White House” that featured Roosevelt as a “promising” third-party candidate for the newly created Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party. It also featured William Howard Taft riding an elephant and Woodrow Wilson atop a donkey, Cole wrote on her blog last week.
“Underwood appears to have cut out an existing photograph of TR riding a horse, and carefully pasted it onto an image of a swimming moose,” Cole wrote. “Under closer examination, one can see that the focus and shadows on TR do not match the moose. Also visible is the white line scratched or painted on the photo to approximate a ripple made by TR’s leg in the water.”
The illustration appeared in the New York Tribune on Sept. 8, 1912.
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Follow Me – Amazing Photographer Pics of His Girlfriend Dragging Him To New Places
Follow Me – Amazing Photographer Pics of His Girlfriend Dragging Him To New Places
Photographer Murad Osmann creatively documents his travels around the world with his girlfriend leading the way in his ongoing series known as Follow Me To. Chronicling his adventures on Instagram, the Russian photographer composes each shot in a similar fashion. We see each landscape from the photographer’s point of view with his extended hand holding onto his girlfriend’s in front of him.
With her back turned, never revealing her face to the camera, Osmann’s girlfriend guides us all on a journey across the globe to some of the most beautiful, exotic, and radiant environments. There are also comforting and familiar settings mixed in for good measure. Whether the couple is spending a romantic night in Moscow, having an exotic adventure in Asia, or simply going bowling, Osmann keeps a visual record of their escapades as he trails behind his beloved.
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Frog Swallows Christmas Light – Caught on Photo
Ribbit! Frog All Lit Up by Swallowed Christmas Light
Photo: James Snyder
The Daily Dozen feature on National Geographic, edited by photo
editor Susan Welchman, is a treasure trove of neat “Your Shots” photos submitted by the magazine’s readers (a selection of which will actually appear on the magazine itself – talk about awesome!).
I particularly like this one, submitted by James Snyder who wrote:
This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead having cooked himself from the inside. I’m happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don’t think he was very happy when I took his light away.
Link to the Daily Dozen (this particular shot by James appeared on the April – Week 1 section)
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Amazing Landscape Art You Won’t Believe
When you see the first picture, you swear it is a high definition photo of a real place. Then you get to see how Matthew Albanese created the scene and then set up lighting and the shooting angles. Amazing.
Matthew Albanese creates models of nature with fake fur, cotton wool, grout and cleverly placed lights. The effect is mesmerizing and indescribably beautiful. See much more at Matthew Albanese’ amazing work at his website HERE
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Pictures of Crumbling Soviet Union Bases
Italian photographer Eric Lusito visited and photographed abandoned Cold War Soviet Union military bases. It is strange for a child of the Cold War to see in my own lifetime such a change in world fortunes and tensions. A welcome sight. For more information, see the link at the bottom. Each has a description in the full article, including air bases, early radar warning sites, missiles sites, a tracking station for Sputnik, and a base in Mongolia that once created a city of over 300,000 where fewer than 30,000 live now.
“These sites of power… are mostly doomed to disappear in the course of time.”
Like an archaeologist entering the ancient tombs of pharaohs for the first time. That’s how Italian photographer Eric Lusito describes visiting these abandoned Soviet military sites; places that have been brought to ruin, but which remain – and contain – fascinating relics of their now-collapsed empire. “I had the feeling of discovering a new world,” Lusito tells us. “But one that was already starting to disappear.” Even the Cyrillic alphabet appeared to him like ancient hieroglyphs, before he had any clue about how to decipher it.
Yet, language aside, it was Lusito’s intention that his pictures spark people’s imagination. “The ruins and images have the power to let everyone build their own stories,” he says. These haunting photographs, which have so brilliantly captured the crumbling shells of buildings against their stark landscapes, are certainly evocative enough to make us wonder about the people who inhabited them. Wonder – and then some.
Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-haunting-photographs-abandoned-soviet-military-bases-0?image=0#6hsvVM48LCEvrDuL.99
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Photos of Individual Snowflakes – Amazing
Ethereal Macro Photos of Snowflakes in the Moments Before They Disappear
- Michael Zhang · Dec 07, 2012
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin is a master of winter macro photography. His photo collection is chock full of gorgeous super-close-up photographs of insects, flowers, snow, and frost. Among his most impressive shots are photographs of individual snowflakes that have fallen upon the ground and are in the process of melting away. The shots are so detailed and so perfectly framed that you might suspect them of being computer-generated fabrications.
They’re not though. The images were all captured using a Nikon D80 or Nikon D90 DSLR and a 60mm or 90mm macro lens.
You can enjoy many more of Osokin’s impressive photographs (16 pages worth, at the moment) over on his LensArt.ru website.
Andrew Osokin Photography [LensArt via The Curious Brain via Colossal]
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Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments
Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments by Jan Kempenaers
While Yugoslavia has long since dissolved, abandoned monuments remain that recall the nation’s glory in the second world war. Photographer Jan Kempenaers has traveled throughout the Balkans to photograph these wild, strange structures that have lost much of their cultural relevance. In various states of disrepair, these monuments (some buildings, other sculptures) represent an era of modern and brutalist architecture that defined this time period in the socialist East. Today, they appear alien, odd and empty, stark reminders of a struggle long since forgotten by a nation that no longer exists. A coffee table book with the full collection of Kempenaers photographs and commentary is available on Amazon for $42. [via cracktwo and theawesomer]
Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments Gallery
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Haikyoist Art – Photos of Ruins and Decay
This example of Haikyoist photography is reposted from the blog at:
http://www.japanistic.com/blog/tag/nara-dreamland/
There is a Ghost House on my street
And I am feeling so inspired, I think I might have to photograph it and become a certified Haikyoist.
No-I didn’t know what was either. Basically, it is someone who explores and photographs abandoned properties. But this is no ordinary haunted house style-stuff. Instead, Haikyoists like Michael John Grist explore the forgotten places. This is a hobby I can completely understand, although I’m not sure I can even describe what makes it so compelling. It’s a gut thing.
Here’s how Grist defines Haikyo. “Haikyo’ is a Japanese word that simply means ruin, or abandonment. They’re the places that fell between the cracks; the old mining town in the mountains that died when the copper seams ran dry, the outlandish theme park that failed when the Bubble burst, the US Air Force Base abandoned to nature’s brambles.” (via)
Part of Haikyo, at least according to Grist, is the interaction between spaces abandoned by people, and what happens, naturally, as they are reclaimed by the world around them. I know it’s much more than just the fact that I am visiting Nara in a month that makes me so drawn to Grist’s Nara Dreamland series.
Grist says that “Nara Dreamland is the epitome of many haikyo dreams; an abandoned theme park with all its roller-coasters and rides still standing…Nara Dreamland opened in 1961, inspired by Disneyland in California. For 45 years its central fantasy castle, massive wooden rollercoaster Aska, and corkscrewing Screwcoaster pulled in the big crowds. By then though it was outdated, and dying a slow death as Universal Studios Japan (built 2001) in nearby Osaka sucked all the oxygen out of the business. It closed its doors permanently in 2006.” (via)
Why do I want one of these cable cars for my house?
Grist spends time in other Japanese haunts too, and there is plenty to see in hisRuins Gallery.
An abandoned Jungle Theme Park in Izu.
In fact, it’s difficult to not show you more and more and more.
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Rare World War I Images Found
Rare World War I Images Found Inside Antique Camera By Photographer Anton Orlov (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Posted: 01/11/2013 3:48 pm EST | Updated: 01/11/2013 3:48 pm EST
A blogger passionate about historic photography techniques serendipitously found some old photos inside his newly-purchased camera. As in, World War I old.
Last week, Anton Orlov of the Photo Palace blog was cleaning the Jumelle Belllieni stereoscopic camera that he’d bought at an antique store a few days prior, and found the images completely by accident. According to his blog, he opened the film chamber and saw the negatives on a stack of glass plates.
“While viewing the images in their negative form it was difficult to say for sure what was on each of them, but after scanning them it became clear that they dated back to the First World War and were taken somewhere in France,” Orlov wrote.
He told Yahoo News via email that he has found undeveloped film inside old cameras before, but never images like these. The set of eight, which he scanned and published on his blog, seem to be almost perfectly preserved.
In them, the war’s toll on the French countryside is seen in crisp black and white. Two soldiers stand next to a big bomb in one of the negatives, while another shows men on horseback near the remains of a downed airplane.
“I absolutely love finding images that likely have never been seen by anyone in the world,” Orlov wrote on his blog.
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Michael Bradley - Time Traveler 