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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    So this photo is over 100 years old? That is incredible! It looks like it could have been taken yesterday.
    I did my best to edit it up to my own standards in Photoshop per the second version. The colors aren't totally accurate but are hard to tweak perfectly. Film has always been able to capture the world in great two dimensional detail and photography as such wasn't a novelty by 1909. Photoshop wasn't around of course so the raw file digitized from the original looks a bit off compared to the two incarnations in this thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    They aren't colorized, these are real color photos taken with three exposures with different color filters. They are from pre-Communism Russia under the Czar.

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    The above one is from 1909. I see a person much closer to nature yet distinctly aware of her being supposed to be something higher than nature. Whether that is cultural in origin or religious in a personal way I do not know.
    I can't figure how you conclude that the girl is close to nature. I don't get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    I can't figure how you conclude that the girl is close to nature. I don't get it.
    A photo sometimes says more than a thousand words and that photo is a good one. Not all of his photos are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    I can't figure how you conclude that the girl is close to nature. I don't get it.
    Well she IS outside.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Well she IS outside.
    She's in her farm land element holding the produce of the land in her hands. The photographer is very much making her represent her Tsar era peasent life.

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