There is old memory in snow

[sovay]

Old ice, old hauntings. Twenty-two hitherto unknown, unprocessed negatives from the Shackleton expedition (Ross Sea Party, 1914–17), discovered in an exploration hut. They are truly amazing. The damage especially makes them look like the photography of ghosts.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is amazing--what an incredible find. Just incredible. This one really does look ghostlike, and there's something about all of them, but especially this one, that seems so present-day. An alternate reality. In the ghostlike one, the damage has the look of a decoration of embossed roses, like a ghostly frame.

(And I want to go and read your back pages, and I will do, later tonight.)

[sovay]

In the ghostlike one, the damage has the look of a decoration of embossed roses, like a ghostly frame.

Yes! And the way he seems to fade in and out of the crates. That's actually my favorite of the pictures in terms of story, but I loved the three-dimensional texture of the one I linked, the blistering and the fernlike crackles of the silver layered into the emulsion like the lid of a shadow box, as if setting it beneath glass, or time.

(And I want to go and read your back pages, and I will do, later tonight.)

(They'll still be there! Enjoy!)

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

OH MY.

[sovay]

OH MY.

Yeah.

[gwynnega]

How amazing. Those photos give me chills (no pun intended!).

[larryhammer]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those are amazing.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Stunning images. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Did you ever hear "The Ballad of Tom Crean"?

I believe it's written by a man name of Cliff Wedgbury, but I first heard it from a friend and teacher of mine, Jimmy Crowley.

Here he is singing it with another friend of mine:

[selidor]

Wow. Place hasn't changed a bit. Just missing the smell: cold-crisp and lanolin, paper and sacking. Mostly lanolin.
(I should probably put my photos of there up on my Flickr one of these days).

[sovay]

(I should probably put my photos of there up on my Flickr one of these days).

Yes!

P.S. Just missing the smell: cold-crisp and lanolin, paper and sacking. Mostly lanolin.

Poem.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

O my!

They look like your poetry.

Nine

[sovay]

They look like your poetry.

Thank you.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! THank you for the links.

[sovay]

Wonderful! THank you for the links.

You're welcome! I sent them first to derspatchel and then realized this was something everyone I knew needed to see.