# Post some beautiful black & white (or sepia) photographs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093 "2009-11-02T20:20:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/41 "2009-11-07T06:00:04Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Hey, nice pictures, infrared, right? Looks to me like he used HDR, which plays with the exposure in unusual ways, then sucked the colour out. If so, I like that much more than the colour HDR pics I normally see. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/42 "2009-11-07T07:06:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmmm. I hadn’t noticed that before. Is it part of the original photo? A cardboard joke fan that just looks like Mario, maybe? [It’s (the other) WeeGee!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32JsO4MyoA) How very meta. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/43 "2009-11-07T07:27:25Z")
Just what I happen to have on my portable usb at work [http://www.flickr.com/photos/26870187@N02/sets/72157622751469644](http://www.flickr.com/photos/26870187@N02/sets/72157622751469644) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/44 "2009-11-07T20:16:41Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > [It’s (the other) WeeGee!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32JsO4MyoA) > > How very meta. 🆒 Heh. That very photo appears at 1:46 in that video. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/45 "2009-11-08T18:50:26Z")
My wife took this [one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/michellebanks/757896277/). ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/46 "2009-11-08T19:59:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > (Not b/w, but same twin aunts-same house with me [70 years later](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28949748@N06/2782612253/).) **Sampiro** - I had no idea you were related to the [Del Rubio Triplets!](http://www.morbid-curiosity.com/1d419be0.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/47 "2009-11-09T17:59:56Z")
This is my only b & w art shot that might be worth a click: [Ruins of St. John’s Episcopal Church at Harper’s Ferry](http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinfeatherphotos/435409461/sizes/l/) What makes the shot, for me, is the girl reading in the lower right. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/48 "2009-11-09T20:19:20Z")
There are some gorgeous photos here! Thanks everyone for sharing! Mine are also perhaps beautiful only to me, being family members, but here are my favorites. [My grandfather](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v731/trublmakr/relatives/?action=view¤t=img003.jpg) as a young man. He had very blue eyes- he was quite a hottie, I think. [My grandfather’s parents](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v731/trublmakr/relatives/?action=view¤t=img002.jpg) and brother. [My mother](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v731/trublmakr/relatives/?action=view¤t=img001.jpg) as a young nursing graduate. She was and continues to be a very beautiful woman. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/49 "2009-11-09T20:24:42Z")
[Here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/40877675@N07/4089938069/) is my favorite picture of our youngest son. Inspired by the Anne Geddes portraits of children, I asked a very good friend who is a professional photographer and owns a graphic design firm to snap a picture of my son sleeping on his daddy’s forearm. After our friend took the picture, he Photoshopped the background (his back yard) out of it and adjusted the “lighting.” ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/50 "2010-01-21T23:04:34Z")
OK, I know I’m late to the thread, but here’s one… [Foot In Hand](http://www.flickr.com/photos/zev_ari/3717372844/) Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/51 "2010-01-22T00:00:13Z")
[Operation Crossroads, Baker shot](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg). (Full sized shot) The fourth atomic detonation. That black blotch on the base of the column? That’s a _ship_ that’s been upended. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/52 "2010-01-22T01:54:07Z")
John Quincy Adams, taken very late in life, in 1843: [http://haysvillelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/john-quincy-adams-2.jpg](http://haysvillelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/john-quincy-adams-2.jpg) The first known photograph of the White House, taken in 1846, when President Polk was in residence: [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/\_gIaS86VGe1w/RnNZLR8JnlI/AAAAAAAAANI/Vrs1gBgvkb4/s400/Polk%2B15%2BWhite%2BHouse%2B1846.jpg](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gIaS86VGe1w/RnNZLR8JnlI/AAAAAAAAANI/Vrs1gBgvkb4/s400/Polk%2B15%2BWhite%2BHouse%2B1846.jpg) Indian officers attending the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Indian\_Military\_Representatives\_Attending\_the\_Coronation\_of\_King\_Edward\_VII\_by\_Sir\_(John)\_Benjamin\_Stone.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Indian_Military_Representatives_Attending_the_Coronation_of_King_Edward_VII_by_Sir_%28John%29_Benjamin_Stone.jpg) The explosion of the USS _Shaw_ at Pearl Harbor, 1941: [http://incontiguousbrick.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/pearl-harbor-attack.jpg](http://incontiguousbrick.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/pearl-harbor-attack.jpg) JFK at his inaugural ball, 1961: [http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=john+f.+kennedy+ball&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djohn%2Bf.%2Bkennedy%2Bball%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D84&imgurl=5d3d1702273c94a0](http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=john+f.+kennedy+ball&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djohn%2Bf.%2Bkennedy%2Bball%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D84&imgurl=5d3d1702273c94a0) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093/53 "2010-01-22T02:30:19Z")
[My sister on her wedding day.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/Family%202/TammyCloseupBW.jpg) I just love this picture. [My neighbour’s crabapple tree from below.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Assignments/HPIM4317.jpg) [My kittyface.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Assignments/HPIM3842-1-1-1.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-beautiful-black-white-or-sepia-photographs/516093.md?page=2)