You should also add in the cost of having and maintaining good gear, plus all the time, money and study that went in to even getting to a level to be considered “good.” Some of us are wicked naturally talented, but there still is a lot of time that goes into honing that. Because everyone can have some measure of…

Yeah, event photography is a whole different ball of wax. I’m a pretty good studio and alternative /historic process photographer with a lot of years of experience and I occasionally work weddings as a second photographer. I totally spend the whole week before a nervous wreck and the day of wishing it would all end…

The last wedding I worked had one, and a bunch of trashed older women were in it goofing off and they leaned back, forgetting it was a curtain and not a wall, flipped backwards out of it and took the whole thing down. I just remember the guy running it looking down at them in shock, no doubt thinking, “I don’t think I…

I know this isn’t open thread(sorry Mandy, I loved you in Saved), but I’m in need of advice. Long story short, the present I got my brother for his birthday isn’t going to work out and I’m going with plan b. He just got a record player, and is a big fan of Motown, so I thought I’d send him some records. Problem is, I…

I’m kind of creeped out by the increasing levels of misogyny on both sides of the political spectrum. I feel like things could potentially get a lot worse for women in the coming years.

That makes me so happy! There is nothing better than seeing her waiting by the door for me when I come home at night. Both of my cats are strays that happened to wander into my life at just the right times. Pets for sure make life richer.

Thanks, I’m sort of foolishly in love with her and her adorable little white feeties. She was a stray that came to live with me at the lowest point in my life and her clownishness and intense snuggliness have gotten me though some seriously miserable times.

We use a thundershirt and then roll her in a blanket and stuff the whole thing in and pray to got she doesn’t sneak a paw out at some point in time. That burger and fries cat has nothing on my cat. She’s looks sweet, but she’s the goddamn devil as soon as she forced to do something she thinks she didn’t sign up for.

My landlord had one of these when he broke his hip, complete with skull pommel, but we convinced him not to go too far with it lest he end up back in the hospital with a new need for stitches.

That’s some serious commitment. I broke my ankle last august and am resigned to wearing one type of sneaker for the rest of my life. Thankfully they’re more hiker than old lady.

Ah that makes sense. Whole different ball of wax.

I’m curious about where you live in that they won’t allow guns in the residence. I live in a pretty rural area and most everyone I know owns a gun or bow for hunting deer. I completely understand the intention in not wanting to have guns in the house, but in areas like where I live you’d have no patients.

ETA: I linked that shit like a moron. This was the exit the workplace jam of the day

Southworth and Hawes were famous daguerreotypists and they made a lot of images similar to the ones you’re describing, such as this one. Their work is really beautiful and well worth a look.

I wouldnt bank on that line of thinking; men can have children in their 80's, but the sperm quality is poor and their offspring are prone to genetic birth defects.

Don’t be an ass. I wasn’t correcting as much as I was sharing. I’ve spent countless hours looking at photos and love talking about them and passing along what I've learned.

You’re correct. I’m a photo historian specializing in this era and parents holding their children such as that was incredibly common. Exposures were long and adults even struggled to stay still that long, so they used stands that had headrests and back braces to help.

I’m a photo historian and I can confirm that what anaward said is correct. The woman in the picture is holding the baby up so that it didn’t squirm. Modern interpretation of old photographs is often incorrect because we don’t have a good grasp of what photos looked like back then, the technology that was used and the…

You are correct. Post-mortem photos were absolutely something that were done, but a great many photos are misinterpreted as being such when they are not.

Throughout life. It’s a variation on practice of creating ibeji’s, which are small statues meant to represent a deceased twin, that are dressed and cared for by the surviving family members as if they were living beings.