early colour photos of Russia

[Joe P]

Some damn impressive 100-year-old (!) colour photos of Russia --

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214585

Joe

 

[guybat]

Fabulous aren't they.

 

[Groover]

Have a look HERE for more on the life and work of Prokudin-Gorky. Interesting stuff.

Regards

 

[Anex]

Those are great. I've seen that technique used more recently, but the shots didn't come out half as well as Gorskii's. I bought some filters to give it a go, but didn't get round to it. Kind of seems like a waste of film now we have colour film.

 

[The Captain]

amazing snaps! this looks like wizard of oz's gaff. better resolution should be:

 

[Mr Cat]

yes - I love looking at old photos like this..!

I bought a photo album the other month that contained a lot of local (to me!) holiday snaps from the 30's etc...!