Great find. It is unfortunate that the moonrise image most used as the example image from this project is missing from that archive. It is FRAME_1101_H2, and is not there. This is ironic as this image is the example image the grandparent used for their example for the images being moved.
Did anyone else notice the beautiful photography contained in this post? Unfortunately, after a quick scan, I could not find any attributions to the photos.
Completely OT, but I quite like the photograph of early evening San Francisco. I wouldn't mind a link, if it's available somewhere -- for my private enjoyment; not to duplicate the blogger's design.
Slight aside: I was searching previously and came across a few different archives - including the UK's National Archive - with historic aerial photo collections. It seemed like there was much needless duplication.
I wonder if the people involved here considered adding the images to an existing aerial photo archive?
Interesting.
I am a bit disappointed though about the caption of that 172x172px image.
It goes into details about superimposing two scans to achieve a 172x172 b/w image. But obviously the image shown is an interpolated and post-processed version of a photograph. It is neither b/w nor 172x172. Probably because the original data wasn't archived, only a printout (1957!). Still, a slightly misleading caption.
It doesn't look like there is any EXIF data in the image, perhaps because it's been opened and saved so many times. If we had the original image, that might shed some light as to where/when it was taken.
What I like about them is they are obviously taken by an amateur (I don't profess to be any good myself!). Things like wonky horizon lines stand out to me and help bring a bit more or a human connection to these photos and events depicted I otherwise feel quite disconnected from.
They remind me of photos for example my family and friends take on holiday, and make me realise it's just pure luck that it wasn't me, my family or friends who found ourselves in those difficult years.
That said, I think it may be misdated, as I think the image is from closer to 2007/8, as I think I shot it on a 40D which only came out in Aug 2007. I've gone through 3 or 4 generations of photo library management software since then and the metadata may have gotten mangled.
I really had trouble finding the photo of the Statue of Liberty during night that I could use in this article. Unsplash gave me just this one photo. Wikimedia Commons gave me nothing. Flickr gave me more results, but they were mostly from Vegas (easy to spot for me) or Tokyo (difficult to spot for me). I have re-searched Flickr now (with the "all creative commons" filter selected), and I still can't find a photo that I could guarantee is a real thing, let alone a photo that looks as good as the Unsplash one I have used.
I now regret making that decision, because if I knew that this was Tokyo in the background, I would avoid using it.
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