random samplings of a restless mind scanning life's canopy
Yes - you're looking at a color photograph taken a hundred years ago!
This, and other stunning images, in The Boston Globe's Big Picture feature this week, restored from original color photographs taken a century ago by Sergei Mickhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a photographer of the Russian Empire. Check out the other 33 selections, they're really something! And more images and information on the photographer can be found here.
The above image, taken circa 1910, shows a nomadic Kirghiz family (presumably) on the Golodnaia Steppe which now lies in present-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. How many people still live this lifestyle? Will some be forced to return to it in the next century?
I'm a reconciliation ecologist studying the responses of wildlife to human influences through an evolutionary lens. I seek ways to apply evolutionary ecology towards reconciling biodiversity conservation with human development. Also a father of two girls; photographer; birdwatcher; bookworm; cinephile; and explorer of the internets.
I'm a reconciliation ecologist studying the responses of wildlife to human influences through an evolutionary lens. I seek ways to apply evolutionary ecology towards reconciling biodiversity conservation with human development. Also a father of two girls; photographer; birdwatcher; bookworm; cinephile; and explorer of the internets.
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