Today in Photo History

1861: The Kinematoscope -- a photographic attempt to show motion, invented by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia -- is granted patent No. 31,357 as an "improvement in exhibiting stereoscopic pictures of moving objects." Washington, D.C., U.S.

Reflections

Reflections 2007                                                                                                                          Downtown Topeka, KS

Earlier this week I received an email regarding the image above.  I took this image back in 2007 and had submitted the image to a company that was holding a photo contest.  While I did actually win the contest, it wasn't for this photo. 

What the email was regarding is that the company is redesigning their offices, and this is an image they would like to have printed for one of the offices.   This has always been a special photo for me and it nice that it is being recognized.

Today in Photo History

Today in 1892, the first successful auroral photograph was made by the German physicist Martin Brendel. Although it was limited to a blurred, low-contrast picture, it did convey some sense of the shape of the aurora. The task was not easy because the auroral light itself was generally feeble and flickering while photographic materials of the time required a long exposure, and was little sensitive to the deep reds in the aurora. One of his photographs, taken on 1 Feb  1892 was published in the Century Magazine of Oct 1897. Brendel had traveled to Alten Fiord, Lapland, to spend several months studying auroral displays and magnetic disturbances.

The first color pictures were not taken until about 1950, and Life magazine published color aurora photographs in 1953.

A Moment Back in Time.

Old store front in the small rural town of Burlingame, KS.

New Year. New Post.

A year ago today, I took this image on Tybee North Beach.  A great little hippy island right down the road from Savannah, GA.  I love begin back in Kansas, but I miss not being able to head to the beach.