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Had a Tintype Photo Taken Yesterday

Perknose

Perknose

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A female friend and I went to the Tinicum Arts Festival yesterday. It's in 67th year, right by the Delaware River in Upper Bucks County, with 100-200 artists and crafts people, each with their own tents. It raises about $50,000 each year for the Tinicum Conservancy.

This guy surprised me by asking if he could take my picture with his civil war era tintype camera . . . maybe because of my yuuuuuuge beard, I dunno. His gf/sister/partner (?) had a bearded dragon, which she let me hold. The little guy almost perfectly matched the shirt I was wearing.

So the bearded dragon and I sat down. It's one of those deals where you have to sit perfectly still for 30 seconds. As it was slowly developing, he surprised me by telling us we could come back when it was finished and he'd give to me.

Kewl.
 
I was going to complain about the lack of photos, but bearded dragon.

Bearded dragon. 😎

EDIT: now I am watching this 😀
 
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it's perk, with a huge beard, holding a bearded dragon at the Tinicum Arts Festival. you don't need pictures to know what this looks like
 
I've always been fascinated by tin type photos...I love the old west stuff.

so where's the pic?
 
slayer202 said:
it's perk, with a huge beard, holding a bearded dragon at the Tinicum Arts Festival. you don't need pictures to know what this looks like
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Me petting some young woman's bearded dragon in public? I'm not posting that! 😛
 
i know memory goes when you get older but now perk can't remember the intervening 150 years between the first time he had his photo taken back in 1866 and now.
 
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Brown County in Indiana had small towns that were basically mostly arts oriented like that for a decades now, PA is the same I'm sure. The family had land down there we used to camp on every summer and we'd hit town places and wander around some weekends like that in the summer. Pretty cool stuff, one Uncle even had an old wooden boxed test kit from way back for panning for gold and testing it, had a creek there you could actually get small amounts out of if you took enough time.

Some of the wooden bridge festivals and steam engine ones in Amish Country there were cool also, it's been a long time since I went to one of those up there.
 
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How shy are you Perknose? I take terrible pictures as much as the next guy but come on dude...lets see this fucking picture.
 
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