28May/092
Ghostly migrant mother
'Migrant Mother' is possibly the most famous photo in the world. It's now on Flickr, scanned from the - slightly tricksy - original negative:
It's tricksy because the negative itself was retouched in the '30s - can you spot the change? I couldn't, despite knowing what I was looking for. Then I looked at the original, and the edit is now all I can see. Probably forever. I can't believe I never noticed it...
Hello!
Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
Do feel free to email me - I get lonely:
Your hair looks swish, by the way - have you done something new?
Recent Comments
- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
on ISS.
May 31st, 2009 - 17:35
Only just saw the finger on the rhs…. is there anything else?!!
May 31st, 2009 - 17:49
Yeah, the ghost thumb now seems incredibly obvious. I don’t understand how it slipped past me before.