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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Sepia Saturday - On Top of Things

This Sepia Saturday Suggestion nudges me into more than one direction. First I thought about the few LOST GALLERY photographs of people drinking or getting ready to.

But let's get back on topic, as they say in the boardroom. Let's look at some people caught with a drink in their hand.

Then I thought about the several examples of snaps taken from on top of something, looking down on the scene. That's a popular tourist photographic memento: a panoramic vista from a mountain top which always seems so breath taking in real life but not so much in the resulting photograph.

But first, when I think of slaking a thirst, I remember the day I caught a gathering of waxwings at the birdbath in my back yard on a very hot day. It was a lucky snap.

I always figured this was Michael Caine.

Moving right along, let's now look at some of those tourist snaps from the family vacation. Let's go up on the mountain...

Top of Stone Mt Above where I took pictures of base

I just realized: This one was probably shot from on top of (or near it) Umbrella Rock on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. We looked at some pictures of Umbrella Rock a few weeks back on Sepia Saturday - Sitting On A Rock.

This one has been identified. This is the "Lower Cliff Dwelling" in the Tonto National Monument in Arizona.

Okay, enough of that. Let's go up in an elevator and look at the city.

The reverse of this one says:
Bird's eye view of Seattle

Do these look familiar to you?

Okay, up on the mountain, up an elevator, what's left? Let's get the view from an airplane.

This is an Army Air Force base in Bassingbourn, England, in the winter of 1944/45.

aerial views 8000 feet 4 100 green filter 90mm Elmar 61 01

Back to the mountain top, this looks more like a professional shot.

Okay, now head on back to the main floor and the Sepia Saturday home page for an assortment of interpretations of this week's suggestion.

The most popular photographs An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

THE KIDS It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh
"What are they doing?"

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Album Page - In the Jungle, Somewhere

This group of ten photographs were scattered in various categories in LOST GALLERY for some time before it was realized that they seemed related. They deserve their own album page, so here it is.

What do you think is going on?

Shown here slightly larger than original size.

The snapshots of the guys in uniforms are not uncommon. It's the locale and the events in some of the photographs that makes it a bit curious.