My wife took this tintype of me this weekend.
It was captured on a modern exact reproduction of an 1850's ferrotype camera, this was a 14 second exposure, the chemicals are of the same type as used in the 1850's and really smell out the house.
*PS - tried it with my finger over the guard, I preferred the way it looked with my finger resting on the trigger - foolhardy, irresponsible, dangerous and amateurish - just like the civil war pics from the 1860's - that and it's dummy ammo
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.
John Newton (1725-1807)
____________________________________________ "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell
____________________________________________ "I once was one of those men."
roadrunner wrote:That is really cool. Like being immortalized in a modern antique. Now you need to put on a uniform and show the kids how grandpa looked just like you.
Grandpa (Great grandpa), would not have approved of such expensive playthings.
(Glasgow, Scotland - 1918)
Phil - the pic's fun, the wife is a talented kid and whatever you think of the pic, she made me look cooler than I am, lol.
