Interesting Photograph

[BlueJazz]

This is a French Village which in itself, is no big deal.
What IS interesting about this photograph is it's the first known COLOR Photograph ever taken....it's 132 years old ....taken in 1872!

(This is true color photography...NOT "tinted")

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. Very Cool

[patrice]

4. Love this MLK quote!

I will try it the next time I get hit with the "Kerry is soft on defense" BS!

[bif]

2. Nice

I've got a book of color photos of Czarist Russia taken around the turn of the century.

[lightbulb]

3. Awesome - in some ways it's really hard

not to think of the period between the mid 1800s and the 1930s as actually having occurred in black and white, silly as that may seem. Seeing a color photo from the 1870s is strangely life affirming. Thanks!

[fob]

5. It would be cool to see a side by side pic of the same area today

[underpants]

6. Is that a "je déteste l'amérique" banner on that one house

:bounce:

Very cool!

[DS1]

8. Now that you ask, yes it is!

[LisaLynne]

9. Nicely done. ;) nt

[underpants]

11. QU'UN ARTISTE!!!

:THUMBSUP:

[Aristus]

7. Beautiful.

No TV antennaes, no billboards, no megapixels casino advertising screens, no f**ckin' BUSH'04 placards.

On the other hand, probably some fantastic wine and food, good music, artists everywhere, and some diverting bookshops, I'll bet. Looks like Heaven on Earth.

[KDLarsen]

10. Drove through the Rhone valley coming home from France..

.. after 2 weeks on summer holiday at the Riviera, we (Me, my dad & his girlfriend) drove home through the Rhone valley - and I gotta tell ya, it sure beats driving on the highway all the time. We took the highway from St. Tropez all the way up to Orange, where we left the highway and just drove through all the small villages and countless wineries. We made 1 stop at a winery (but we brought home 36 bottles) and continued north passing all sorts of flea markets (we were heading home on a saturday) before stopping in a small village to have lunch in a small cafe. From there on, it was north towards Lyon where we went back on the highway.

On a different note - I had the joy of driving through the heart of Germany in the middle of the night with no other cars on the Autobahn. When the speed wasn't controlled, I was doing 160 KPH all the way from Kassel to Puttgarden ferry harbor.

EDIT: Forgot to add - we went to the American Military cemetery in Draguinan the day before the 60th anniversary of the Riviera landings, quite a moving place. I also saved the special Liberation section of the Var-Matin newspaper, which has numerous pictures from back then. I'll scan them at some point and share.