Russia in color, a century ago

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With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II

Published on Monday 30th of August 2010 02:02:27 AM

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The Empire That Was Russia; The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated

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Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-GorskiiThe photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industrial power, to the daily life and work of Russia's diverse population. In the early 1900s Prokudin-Gorskii formulated an ambitious plan for a photographic survey of the Russian Empire that won the support of Tsar Nicholas II. Between 1909-1912, and again in 1915, he completed surveys...

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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

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These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

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Awkward family pet photos

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Awkward family pet photos Everyone thinks their own pet is the cutest but when some families take a picture with their beloved animal, the response isn't always the collective "awwwwww" they wanted. These are some of the worst family pet portraits fromAwkward Family Pet Photos, a website that celebrates when the family pet portrait goes so bad it's good. Want more? Awkward Family Pet Photos is due out in paperback in the fall of 2011.                                     

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It Followed Me Home!

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I was in my favorite thrift store last week, found this sitting in a plastic bin with a 5 dollar sticker. It had a 28mm lens on it, I found a 35-70 f2.8-4 Sigma for another 18 bucks.I've been cleaning and testing, got it ready to roll again. The Minolta XG-M came out in the early 80s, it has auto exposure and manual focus. It all cleaned up to about 99%. I'll shoot it some and the rest of the time it will look great on my shelf.I can get negatives digitized to discs, it isn't very expensive.

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