For my shutterbug friends

[The Fishing Geek]

The Empire that was Russia

This exhibit at the Library of Congress website is a collection of color images taken in the early 1900's by a Russian man by the name of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Yes, I said color back in the early 1900's. It's a fascinating read, and amazing photographs.

[sinker]

Those are quite the pics. Pretty interesting how he made them too. Basically mixed the three colors on the slide projector. Guess our film hasn't really come that far in the last 100 years.

There's been some ingenious Russians over the years. One of them came up with idea for stealth aircraft and the Russians told him he was crazy so he defected here and we now have our F-117. The inventor of the AK-47 was a tank mechanic. That gun has been produced more than any other in history.

[Snapset]

Thanks for a great website Geek. That one gets a bookmark. That guy is so clever, it almost makes me wish I was. [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]

[The Fishing Geek]

I bookmarked that site over a year ago, and I go back to it from time to time to marvel at the photos. They are simply amazing, and beautiful.