National Geographic pictures through the years

[ashling]

New York 1957


New Mexico, 1939


California 1965



Antarctica, 2007


Arizona, 2005

[vanlassie]

1. Cool! What's the deal with the last one?

[ashling]

2. "the deal"???

[graywarrior]

4. .

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

[rug]

6. "Great" site!

" "

[graywarrior]

7. Ain't it?

I have a friend who is an editor for the government and he sent me that link. Now I look for "" everywhere. It's a disease.

[Jim Lane]

9. The site is amusing but not apropos here.

You were responding to ashling, who used quotation marks correctly, unlike the misuses depicted at that URL.

[ashling]

10. Thank you

but I was not aware I had used quotation marks at all - in the OP, that is. that is why I was so confused . . . even a little more confused than usual

[graywarrior]

11. Is this Duck Dynasty?

My head is fucked now.

[ashling]

12. No . . .

[graywarrior]

14. What the hell is that?!

[ashling]

15. Duck Dynasty

[graywarrior]

23. Those cats! Hahahahahahahaha!

[magical thyme]

22. they "missed" the "miss spell"

It's "view," not "veiw." At least in my "dictionary!"

[IrishAyes]

5. Thanks.

I especially love the Grand Canyon. Visited north and south rims multiple times; wish I could live there, if I could somehow get rid of the tourists.

[ashling]

13. get rid of the tourists?

the NSA heard that

[IrishAyes]

16. I'm sure of that. It's just an old joke told by the locals, who know damned well whose $ supports

them. In fact, I think it's rather common in Los Angeles and New York too. At least I sure heard it a lot when I lived there, until I learned to quit looking around and up and gawking at everything. Now they're having trouble with noise pollution on the Canyon from sightseeing helicopter flights and such. Especially in wilderness areas, it's critical to limit the numbers of people who gain access daily or before you know it, you might as well be at Disneyland.

Kindly do not try to turn my comments into anything the NSA should be concerned about. They know better, and I'd be gravely offended.

[ashling]

17. It was a joke, fer Chrisakes!

sheesh!

[IrishAyes]

18. It was an atrocious joke, completely inappropriate and disgusting. "I was only joking,

can't you take a joke?" is the weakest defense in the world, in fact the favorite of bullies worldwide. Ask any shrink. I'll not apologize in the least for my objection. What you said was extremely offensive in any decent society.

[ashling]

24. I didn't ask you to apologize

I was just explaining what I meant by my post. I certainly never meant to offend.

[IrishAyes]

27. Then a small suggestion, if I still may: smilies help a lot to show intent. I would've laughed

with you in that case. And agreed. Trying to extend a friendly hand now by noting you'd have had no way to know I have been stalked by a person who sought to twist my words into something dangerous that 'had to be reported to the authorities'. It makes a person a little twitchy afterwards.

Another case: While I was stuck in AZ, I had a little horse ranch at the end of a 5-mile dirt road which could be difficult in the best of weather. For 5 years I worked private duty for a nurses service because they paid top dollar for the time and locale. However, my immediate supervisor and several of her little helpers got it in their pinheads that because my house was remote, I must be some kind of weirdo and the alleged house was, quote, "a Ted Kazinski shack". At first I was cordial enough to invite them out to see the place, a custom built huge house that a contractor had intended for his retirement home. The great room was 20x15 with a cathedral ceiling and windows floor to ceiling on 3 sides, to give you an idea.

But would they come and look at it? No, then they might have to admit they were wrong. So I brought pictures into the office and their reaction was to ask whose house was it because it certainly couldn't be mine, as they knew for a fact that I lived in a shack with no power or indoor facilities! In fact it made the supervisor so angry she threatened to have my license revoked for questions of mental stability. It didn't do her any good since the authorities were required to investigate, but that still went on my record.

So yeah, I do get a little twitchy when someone mentions a big regulatory agency in any manner potentially involving me, w/o making it clear upfront that it's only a joke and one that I'm invited to join. Especially these days of domestic terrrorism when tourist centers are often targeted. In my situation you might understand.

[Earth_First]

8. Most certainly Kodachrome on the first few...

The colors are so rich and intense.

[hunter]

26. The "look" of Kodachrome is difficult to duplicate using modern equipment.

Film manufacturing (especially Kodachrome which was a very complex process), lenses designed without sophisticated computer models and engineering, determining the proper exposures, developing slides (again with Kodachrome, a very complex process), making prints... these were as much fine art as science.

Unlike modern digital photography equipment, the limitations of this technology were great. Working within these limitations is what made the "National Geographic" style of Kodachrome photography so distinctive.

[madinmaryland]

21. Welcome to DU!!

[madinmaryland]

20. Beatiful pictures!

[ashling]

25. Thank you.