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Biker! Happy Aerial Photograph Day!
| "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It," the first recorded aerial photograph. | |
| 13 October 1860 Biker, on this day in 1860 the first recorded Aerial photograph was taken. The place was Boston and it was from a balloon. In these days of Google maps we take this sort of thing for granted. Aerial photography was first practiced by the French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as "Nadar", in 1858 over Paris, France. However, the photographs he produced no longer exist and therefore the earliest surviving aerial photograph is titled 'Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It.' Taken by James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King on October 13, 1860, it depicts Boston from a height of 630m. Aerial photography is used in cartography (particularly in photogrammetric surveys, which are often the basis for topographic maps), land-use planning, archaeology, movie production, environmental studies, surveillance, commercial advertising, conveyance, and artistic projects. In the United States, aerial photographs are used in many Phase I Environmental Site Assessments for property analysis. |
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The place where you get boatmen singing about ice cream
And it's sinking as well
Well that lasted all of three minutes
[video=youtube;KGg4uhGfgB0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGg4uhGfgB0[/video]
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Well that lasted all of three minutes
Should have chosen a harder subject then
Something like this
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Sorry I love hill forts and a friend of mine was there not too long ago - lucky fluke.
It's like folk thinking Berghaus is a German company when actually formed near Newcastle. The thought was that when they formed a lot of the good gear came from Germany so they picked a German sounding name. Confuses the heck out of Jerry too.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Aerial photography day eh? Hmmmm would that be Boston Lincolnshire or Boston Massachusetts? Having lived in the former for a couple of months it doesn't look like it so I'm guessing it's the latter.
Well done you eagle eyes for spotting Venice and that hill fort. I hadn't realised Venice was so small. Another little factoid I've learned today.
Well done you eagle eyes for spotting Venice and that hill fort. I hadn't realised Venice was so small. Another little factoid I've learned today.
not exactly a hard one , but did put a smile on my face yesterday .Not exactly what you expect to see in the woods.
Bob
Starwars?
Correction, Jim fitzpatrick. Known for his work with Thin Lizzy,
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But arguably his most iconic work is,
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