It's only here to make me happy.

Claudio Bravo (1936-2011, Chilean) ~ Lily, 1945

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

An interesting thing about this seems to be that it would’ve been really difficult to reconstruct these images without digital technology. Although Prokudin-Gorskii photographed his images to be shown in colour, he apparently showed them on a projector - with three coloured filters on projector lenses combining to project a colour image.

Even though the negatives were available historically, the actual recreation of the intended images seems to have been driven by digital photo editing: Making Color Images - The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”

SUPERNATURAL 1.01 Pilot Original Air Date: September 13th 2005