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Author Archives: Edwin Molenaar
Twitter / History_Pics: First #selfie, ca. 1920 … http://t.co/lGj2XCebB7 — Userfactory – Ninon (@Userfactory) March 3, 2014 https://twitter.com/History_Pics/status/440204585614196736
Well, lets just say I’ve gotten better at this over the last couple of years. The left image was one of the first I’ve “scanned” with my DSLR, and the one on the right I’ve just rescanned using the techniques described below (higher resolution available here). Right now I can get higher resolution and […]
Vandaag is het dan zover we, Edwin Molenaar en Ninon Lutters, zijn bezig gegaan om de site een make-over te geven. Na twee jaar was het niet meer bij te houden, de verandering volgden elkaar te snel op om het nog allemaal in HTML uit te voeren en ik heb daarom gekozen voor het online […]
For going on two decades after the end of World War I, Costica Ascinte was quite possibly the only professional photographer in all of Romania. He continued to work right up until his death in 1984, by which point he had accumulated over 5,000 glass plate negatives and several hundred prints — a visual history […]
The Smithsonian Intitute has some intreresting imagery from the past. The archive is enormous and now the have opend some of the photo’s to the public via Flickr watch some nice gardens from the past through this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157622452156758/
If for some reason you didn’t believe no two snowflakes were alike, here’s your proof. In 1885, Wilson A. Bentley successfully photographed over 5,000 snowflakes by attaching a camera to a microscope (and in turn honing the field of Photomicrography). His photographs supported his and others’ beliefs that all snowflakes were unique. Bentley become fascinated […]
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At the turn of the twentieth century Antarctica was the focus of one of the last great races of exploration and discovery. The heroic era of Antarctic exploration (1895 – 1917) gave us Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Falcon Scott, names now synonymous with Antarctic adventure and the values of discovery, adventure and endurance. […]
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