lantern slides

There are some beautifully coloured lantern slides on flickr released under the creative commons from Norway. I always feel like hand tinted photographs look like they’re from some sort of story book land, especially when people have been liberally coloured in the face, big red lips, huge red rosy cheeks, strange straw coloured hair.

Flickr has come a long way!

After it started becoming so popular there was a worry amongst the original, more professional amateur photographers, that the whole site would descend into happy snaps of pet cats and kids birthday parties taken on point & shoots. Thus lowering the professional tone of the site.

Well I think that it’s proven we can all co-exist on this great site (including people like me who have far better cameras than their skills can handle ;) ) and it has become an invaluable repository of photographs such as this one above where we can all access historical images from countries all over the world.

I’m a bit of a flickr cheerleader, I’ve met some fantastic people and some very talented photographers through this site, I love being part of this community.