Heavy Metal… Wacken Open Air 2017: A Photo Essay. 7 Aug 20176 Aug 2017 I did not go to Wacken Open Air, the "heavy metal Woodstock" that occurs every year in the farm fields outside of the town of Wacken, Germany on the first…
Photos Historic Photo: The Rows, Chester, England, about 1895. 2 Jun 201718 Jun 2017 This amazing photograph instantly gets your attention, I think, because it's an unusual juxtaposition of different eras. Obviously taken at the end of the 19th century or beginning of the…
Photos Historic Photo: Daytona Beach, Florida, 1964. Happy Spring Break! 29 Mar 201718 Jun 2017 This photo, which adorned a postcard circa 1964, depicts the teeming boardwalk of Daytona Beach, Florida at the height of its tourist season. The boardwalk shops and attractions are open…
Photos Historic Photo: Aftermath of the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City. 14 Mar 201718 Jun 2017 First, thanks to the great blog Ephemeral New York who brought this picture, which I had seen before, back to my attention. Here is a deliciously detailed photograph taken in…
Photos… Historic Photos: narrow streets of old Paris by Charles Marville, 1853. 7 Feb 20175 Apr 2017 The photograph above (and the similar one below) is a fascinating glimpse into the vanished urban past of Paris, France. This gloomy narrow street is the Rue de l'Arche Marion, and…
Photos… Stones and slabs of old: some ruminations on ancient graves. [Photo essay] 19 Jan 201712 Jul 2017 This morning as I was doing my daily browse of blogs I follow on WordPress, I was taken by this article from Marilyn Armstrong's Serendipity blog, with a few…
Photos Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900. 13 Jan 201713 Jan 2017 It's been a while since I've showcased one of these old-fashioned hand-colored hi-res photos from the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century, so here's an interesting one depicting…
Photos Historic Photo: Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1848, now lost. 5 Dec 20165 Dec 2016 I love these antique photos, especially when they show us parts of the world that don't exist anymore. This is Trinity College Kirk, a church associated with Trinity College in…
Photos… Historic Photo: Men of the Depression, 1939, by Dorothea Lange, colorized. 17 Nov 20168 Aug 2017 Here is another astonishing image from the past that, thanks to the work of two groundbreaking visual artists, seems to leap off the screen and bring history to life. These…
Photos… Fields of metal now quiet: some views of Wacken in autumn. [photos] 12 Oct 201612 Oct 2016 Wacken Open Air, as many people who read this blog know, is a huge heavy metal music festival that occurs on farm fields around the small town of Wacken, Germany…
Photos… Historic Photo: Kem, Russia, 1916, in original color. 5 Oct 20166 May 2017 This sleepy village, obviously in Russia, is called Kem, and it's located in the province of Karelia, very far north and not far from the border between Russia and Finland.…
Photos Historic Photo: Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite, 1903, colorized. 25 Aug 201625 Aug 2016 Today (August 25, 2016) is the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. To commemorate this anniversary, I decided to bring you another historic photo painstakingly colorized by Brazilian artist…
Photos Historic Photo: Soldier on the Western Front, 1918, colorized. 19 Jul 201618 Jul 2016 In my last entry in the "Historic Photo" series, I presented a stunning image of commerce on the New York City waterfront, circa 1900, which was originally taken in black-and-white…
Photos… Historic Photo: Banana docks, East River, New York, circa 1900, colorized. 3 Jul 20166 May 2017 This absolutely jaw-dropping photo is exactly the kind of history I love to see the most: a real, genuine piece of the past that has been made vivid, real and…
Photos Historic Photo: Franz Ferdinand and wife just before their assassination, 1914. 28 Jun 201630 Jun 2017 The above photograph was taken 102 years ago today, on June 28, 1914, and it is one of the most chilling photographs in world history--but only if you know its…
