These Daguerreotypes were recovered from my grandmother's attic. They were so badly damaged that my mother had them in the trash pile, I pulled them out. I have packed them around for a couple of decades now, and I realize the images are fading badly. I also realized I could play around with them, hold them "just so" and then edit them heavily and I could sort of pull their faces back from obscurity. So I did.
In each pair, the top photo is about what I see looking at them on my table. It is only through the magic of digital photography that the close up of their faces becomes as clear as it is. These are my ancestors People I never will know, and people who had posed for these photos with no way of imagining what I would do with them over 100 years later.
CHEERS to family, near and far,
They are who made us who we are.
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NAMASTE!!!
Who is this stunner?!?
Appears to be a young lady in her 20s, with fair skin and long dark hair. She's looking right into the camera lens, right into the viewer, across the generations. Sort of hauntingly beautiful. She couldn't have known when the photo was taken (which was in the early days of photography) who would eventually see it, and in what kind of society that viewer would live. A photograph (or video) is such an interesting thing, a literal snapshot of our life, health, appearance, clothing, and other aspects... captured as-is, forever. The moment of the photograph is gone as soon as it is taken, and will never return. Where was she when that image was created? What was her day like? What became of her? Where is that locket now? Who inherited that gorgeous dark brown hair? What was on her mind when the flashbulb exploded and shutter opened?
Oh, to be able to go through a camera lens into the time and place of the photograph. We could travel to anywhere, anytime, as long as somebody had recorded it with a photo.
One place and time I'd go is in this photo. Don't worry, I wouldn't pull any Back to the Future ancestor manipulation on you! I'd just observe. And maybe slip her a note that says "save in gold coins".
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That is also the most dramatic of my digital recoveries. The original is barely visible, to take that picture and then find her looking right back at me, it sort of made my heart skip a beat. Indeed, she is a very intense looking person! The dark features got watered down in a flurry of blue-eyed blondes, but every once in a while the dark hair appears, my oldest sister started blond then turned dark. Maybe this lady is the source of that... I
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I love old family photos! It's especially fun when you discover somebody in your current family looks just like a relative from long ago.
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Old pictures are really cool, my great aunt gave me one of my mom which I had setting out for years which my mom use to say "when are you ever going to put that picture away", when I had kids I put it in my filing cabinet and sort of forgot about it until you posted your pictures so I grabbed it and took a couple shots of it, it was taken on July 1, 1941 and it still has it's original cardboard frame which was probably considered fancy back then.
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❤️️That is ADORABLE! Thanks for sharing!
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Pretty impressive results!
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Thanks! I was pleased, and sort of hoped that somehow THEY were pleased...
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I know what you mean. Personally, I don't believe there's any way they can be pleased (or be anything, really). That said, I think that.... hmmmm. I think that they WOULD be pleased, if they could. If we could send a message back through time, telling them "your photograph has reached me, a dozen decades from now, and I see you", I think they'd be happy about that.
I like to think they took these photographs, and passed them along to someone, for a reason. It was one way that they could 'live forever'. By bringing them out again, and even adding them to the blockchain, you're giving them back a little bit of life. They're not lost forever, yet. They can still be seen, and thought about, and maybe even researched. They're not completely dead. They weren't in vain.
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I am very comfortable admitting I do not know what happens when we die. But there are some very interesting bits of information out there that leave me open to almost any possibility. Ever seen this story? Crazy shit! https://www.iacworld.org/the-scientific-mystery-of-transplant-cellular-memory-projectiological-hypotheses/
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I remember reading about the case where the little girl helped to solve the case of her donor's murder. Amazing stuff.
I've been an empath since childhood. I've often "known" things I had no way of knowing, many of which I've been able to confirm through research.
And yet it's not a controllable gift, nor do I know how it "works." I just know that it does.
I do agree with Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic fields. It is an elegant theory that fits what I've seen in my own life.
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Oh, yes! Rupert Sheldrake is avisionary and pioneer! I have long been drawn toward "energy work" and what is happening the past few years is just amazing. Are you familiar with Dr. Jerry Tennant? I took some continuing ed stuff from him, we had a VISX laser in our clinic. He was a brilliant ophthalmologist. I won't spoil the rest of the story.... Look him up on youtube and let him tell you! You are going to love what he is doing now!
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I always adored Sheldrake, not least because his response to traditional approaches to biology was the same as mine: you're telling me that my best way to learn about this animal is to kill it?
Completely insane. Not to mention being ethically and spiritually bereft.
I've heard of Dr. Tennant, but I'm only marginally familiar with his work, so I'll check him out later.
Thanks for the heads up
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Maybe I’m just imagining it but the top two people look like they could be your mother and father. I really feel I see you in them. How wonderful that you saved these and brought them back to “life” A little miracle 💚
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😁 It is completely ridiculous how much that comment pleased me, but thanks for the cheap thrill lol! They are all relatives from my father's side, but the woman does actually look a lot like my mother!
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