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Афганистан, путевые заметки, день 1. El Capitan. This is a 507 image stitch done in Microsoft ICE.

El Capitan

It was shot with a Canon 1ds MarkIII and a custom pan/tilt head. This was shot on Friday May 30th, 2008 as part of the Yosemite Extreme Panorama Project: So far I've been able to find 35 climbers, all added as highlights. If anyone out there knows who was climbing El Cap. on that day I'd love to caption the highlights with names. Boston.com - Boston, MA news, breaking news, sports, video. Soviet Soldiers at World War 2 in Color. Such photos always fascinate me.

Soviet Soldiers at World War 2 in Color

I mean the color photos from the past, the older the better. These ones is no exception. We got used to see only black and white photos from the World War 2 – the color photography was very expensive at that times and actually was not widely implemented, and especially usually nobody took the expensive equipment to the battlefront. Still there are some color photos from the times where our grandfathers were young, like 70 years ago. Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900′s. Posted Oct 21, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare58 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution.

Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900′s

From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900′s. View of the monastery from Svetlitsa Island, Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery, Lake Seliger; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Peasant girls, Russian Empire. Trans-Siberian Railway metal truss bridge on stone piers, over the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region; ca. 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Amazing old pictures in color - AussieMuslims.com - Home of Australian Muslims. The oldest known color photograph: 1872 Before the Autochrome process was perfected in France, this photograph of a landscape in Southern France was taken.

Amazing old pictures in color - AussieMuslims.com - Home of Australian Muslims

No, it is not hand-tinted. This is a color-photograph. (Note: It was published in a Time/Life Book entitled "Color" in 1972, "courtesey of George Eastman House, Paulus Lesser. ") You are looking at the birth of color photography seven years after the American Civil War. 130 years ago this view of Angouleme, France, was created by a "subtractive" method. Color Photos from the Russian Empire Monastery from the Solarium Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. The Emir of Bukhara He accomplished this with a clever camera of his own design, which took three black and white photos of a scene in rapid sequence, each though a differently colored filter.

Thumbnails 1 - 40 of 87. Photo of Mansa Devi Temple. Zdzisław Beksiński. Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish: [ˈzd͡ʑiswaf bɛkˈɕiɲski]; 24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor.

Zdzisław Beksiński

Beksiński executed his paintings and drawings either in what he called a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' manner. The first style is dominated by representation, with the best-known examples coming from his fantastic realism period when he painted disturbing images of a surrealistic, nightmarish environment. The second style is more abstract, being dominated by form, and is typified by Beksiński's later paintings. Beksiński was murdered in 2005. Early life[edit] Beksiński as a young boy and a friend play in the rubble of a destroyed Soviet bunker, summer 1941, Sanok Beksiński was born in the town of Sanok, in southern Poland. Painting and drawing[edit] 1978 oil painting entitled AA78 1984 oil painting Technique[edit] Beksiński had no formal training as an artist. Fantastic Realism[edit] Later work[edit]