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Hatchet Job

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 24 May 2018 15:41:04 +0000

For the Vintage Photos Theme Park, a photo of troublemakers and misfits (that guy always was a troublemaker: photo featuring a misfit—someone set apart from the rest of the people by dress, action, expression, etc.).

A jolly bunch of men and women are posing under a tree—and on a tree house or platform attached to the tree—for what turned out to be an overexposed photo that then faded over time.

After I scanned the photo and adjusted its contrast, I was able to spot some interesting details, like the beaming smiles on some of the women's faces and the bow ties and striped shirts worn by a few of the men. One fellow at upper right is smoking a pipe and holding the legs of a guy who's sitting on the railing above him.

And then there's the dude who's smack dab in the middle of the group (see a cropped version for a close-up view). He's puffing on a cigarette and seems to be lunging toward a man in the front row. Judging by the blur of the hatchet he's holding in his raised hand, the man in front received a blow to the head just after the photographer snapped the photo.

Or at least that seems to be what this troublemaker wanted us to believe. Notice, too, how the young woman to the left of the hatchet wielder is grinning. It's hard to tell if she's in on the joke or is actually oblivious to the impending hatchet chop.

P.S. For another rabble-rouser caught on film, see Aieeeeee!!!

Hatchet Job (Cropped)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 24 May 2018 15:41:02 +0000

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Woman and Man at the High Water Mark Monument, Gettysburg, Pa. (Detail)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:29:08 +0000

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Woman and Man at the High Water Mark Monument, Gettysburg, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:29:10 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of "what’s that on his shoe?" or other unexpected details.

In this snapshot, a woman sits for a souvenir photo in front of the giant book that's part of the High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania.

When I purchased this photo, I noticed that there's a man on the right who's oddly standing behind the woman and near the back of the monument. I didn't think anything of it until I got home and scanned the photo. When I took a look at an enlarged version (mouse over the image above to see it), I made the unexpected discovery that the fellow was irreverently thumbing his nose as the photographer snapped the picture. Photobombing, of course, is nothing new!

See below for monument photos from 1906 and 1912 as well as a recent view.

Aieeeeee!!! (Full Version)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:43:46 +0000

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Aieeeeee!!!

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:43:48 +0000

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of quirky humor (submit a photo on this topic each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic).

I was saddened to learn that Barbara "Babs" Bird (aka corduroy cat), a former member of the Vintage Photos Theme Park, passed away on February 9, 2020. I always appreciated her quirky sense of humor. Although all of her comments disappeared when she left Ipernity a couple of years ago, I remember that she said that this was her favorite photo of mine.

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Lots of fun details here--pouts, grins, somber looks, closed eyes, big hats, wall hangings, patterned wallpaper, a mirror.

And then there's that kid in front who's yelling at the top of his lungs and ruining the picture: Aieeeeee!!!

The photo came in a nice paper frame, too: