Detsember

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

yes!

Apparently seals in Aberdeen have learned to climb onto a branch and rest there

Important arboreal seal update:  We know how it gets on.

when someone vocalizes the exact same opinion you’ve been sitting on for a while and says every point you were thinking and now you get to sit back and hit the like button on their post without doing any of the work yourself

Yeah. Exactly.

*speaking loudly over the sounds of fizzling and popping coming from behind me*