What is it? And what is its significance?

[aphex]

http://www.iiki.org/whatisit.jpg

First one to guess this right gets a :beer:

 

[xochi]

First photo ever taken?

 

[moshquerade]

a shroud?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: xochi

First photo ever taken?

well that was quick

:beer: for you

 

[CorCentral]

Star Destroyer from Star Wars!

 

[newb111]

Lochness monster

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Some poor bastard with his head down about to get nailed by a paper airplane.

 

[BurnItDwn]

It looks like maybe a WW1 trench. But I'm not sure since I wasn't around back then and also even if I was my eyes are not grainy and my vision not black and white.

 

[KLin]

View from a Window at Le Gras according to Google.

 

[FoBoT]

that is interesting

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/

The view, made from an upper, rear window of the Niépce family home in Burgundy, in the village of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes near Chalon-sur-Saône. Representationally the subject matter includes [from left to right]: the upper loft (or, so-called "pigeon-house") of the family home; a pear tree with a patch of sky showing through an opening in the branches; the slanting roof of the barn, with the long roof and low chimney of the bake house behind it; and, on the right, another wing of the family house. Details in the original image are very faint, due not to fading?the heliographic process is a relatively permanent one?but rather to Niepce's underexposure of the original plate.

 

[xochi]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: xochi

First photo ever taken?

well that was quick

:beer: for you

could use one about now, its five o'clock somewhere. :thumbsup:

 

[Bootprint]

Page on early forms of Photography.