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Locomotive J 41 class train at Te Aute Station during a trial run from Napier to Waipukurau, 1887

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  • Photos of the Past said:
    View this Wiggled (pseudo 3D)
  • John Wattie said:
    Pseudoscopic (reversed stereo) is viewed cross-eyed by experienced stereoscopists, many of whom prefer image pairs this way round. This is how the picture comes out of a stereoscopic camera (which inverts, like all cameras do) and the two images have to be transposed to produce parallel eye stereo. Wiggled works in a way but is not true stereo.
  • Peppin ANAGLYPHE said:
    Same problems inverted, but the quality of stereo is very great!!!

Grotto in an iceberg, photographed during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, 5 Jan 1911

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  • Janus said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Exergy, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Jens Roesner said:
    Simply stunning to see these shots hundred years after the fact. They seem so fresh and clear and considering the conditions and equipment there and then, I think they are humbling for today's photographers.
  • National Library NZ on The Commons said:
    @J e n s - considering the conditions, the equipment and the downright enormous gloves I have to agree - they're almost miraculous. -- Courtney
  • Robert Carrier said:
    Incredible.
  • SharkBait1313 said:
    great proportion. I didn't realize how big it actually looked until i saw the ant-sized people on the bottom. Took my breath away.

Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s

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  • Robert Carrier said:
    Wow. What a phenomenal photograph.
  • Lucy said:
    wonderful
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Often those young lads fell from the yards, either into the sea or onto the deck. They hoped for the latter as that way death would be more immediate. If they fell into the sea there was zero chance of rescue. The ship sailed on.
  • Terrific Lake said:
    best shot
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Imagine that ship pitching and yawing . . . . they'd experience being lifted and dropped dozens of feet: it would be hard to stay on! A very good account of what that life was like is written in autobiographical form by Eric Newby in "The Last Grain Race."

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