Intriguing photos

LifeIn35mm · Aug 20, 2014

I would like to start a thread where people can post intriguing photos. These can be photos that you took or photos that you found. A few weeks ago I was visiting my Grandmother. She has a shed full of boxes and I wanted to go through them to see all the mysteries they held. I ended up finding a whole lot of old polaroids - probably taken in the '50s. So just now I was looking at them and I found 2 of them that intrigued me, one more than the other. I will posting the pictures down below and I would like to see the pictures that you all have that are mysterious.

What are your thoughts on the first one? How did this happen to a polaroid (heat and humidity)? Straight up cursed? What is it?!?!?

It makes me feel like it's that movie The Ring and something is going to come out of it.

Edit: after looking closely at it I finally know what it is.

Theo Sulphate · Aug 20, 2014

First one is of presents under a Christmas tree. Second one is taken of a movie or a program being shown on a TV. It appears to me that something was placed in the center of both photos and the exposed extremities faded due to heat or light. I also have old boxes of family photos, some taken of unknown people and places, with no notes at all written on the back.

cliveh · Aug 20, 2014

What a brilliant idea for a thread. Here is my first and it maybe interesting if others give there own interpretation on posted images.

LifeIn35mm · Aug 20, 2014

Theo Sulphate said:
First one is of presents under a Christmas tree. Second one is taken of a movie or a program being shown on a TV. It appears to me that something was placed in the center of both photos and the exposed extremities faded due to heat or light. I also have old boxes of family photos, some taken of unknown people and places, with no notes at all written on the back.

Why not post if few?

LifeIn35mm · Aug 20, 2014

cliveh said:
View attachment 93228What a brilliant idea for a thread. Here is my first and it maybe interesting if others give there own interpretation on posted images.

Looks like a summer class to me. An outside class at a university during a break. There getting ahead of the other students so that they can have a they would have a better chance at getting hired (or more successful at starting their own business). Or maybe they are working on inventing something innovative and advanced but never had enough money to complete it. Or maybe WWII came along and they went off to fight, leaving there invention that would have changed the world behind, where it would never be discovered again! Who knows, maybe the million dollar invention notes and blueprints are still out there. Waiting to be discovered so they could change the world as we know it! Wow, when I write I start getting new ideas (this is why I never do a plot chart or anything like that in school, it just messes me up).

Jim Jones · Aug 20, 2014

Mystery of the spheres

LifeIn35mm · Aug 20, 2014

Jim Jones said:
Mystery of the spheres

From the thumbnail it looked like a planet next to a supernova.

Theo Sulphate · Aug 21, 2014

Okay, here are mine. They're not really mysterious, but I do have questions about them.

The tank photo was made on December 20, 1948 near Toulon, France. It appears to be a Sherman tank. Writing on the back provides some details. Selymes Alfred is a Hungarian name; someone in our family.

The town hall photo (Városháza) is somewhere in Budapest (this is a postcard from around 1915). Would love to see this site today. I've searched images in Google, but can't find it.

The photo of the soldiers was made in 1915. The one on the far left is my great-uncle. I have others showing a whole platoon, but I think this one was made just to show us his friends.

I.G.I. · Aug 23, 2014

Great idea for a thread!

Here are some lurid colours... what would you make from them?

DWThomas · Aug 23, 2014

I found some negatives squirreled away when we cleaned out my parent's house, although there were none for any of the extant pictures.

I believe this includes a young woman who was a childhood friend of my mother and her friend's siblings, but alas, the only one who might know was gone before I actually looked at the images. Mom was born in 1910, so I'd guess these were from the 1930s or early 1940s.

I.G.I. · Aug 23, 2014

cliveh said:
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What a brilliant idea for a thread. Here is my first and it maybe interesting if others give there own interpretation on posted images.

I could be wrong, but I think this picture has been taken either in the 1930s or in the 1940s. As a previous poster mentioned it could be an open uni class, but could be also a gathering of one of those nature inspired spiritual movements so popular at the beginning of the 20th century that assembled together outdoors.

cliveh · Aug 23, 2014

I.G.I. said:
I could be wrong, but I think this picture has been taken either in the 1930s or in the 1940s. As a previous poster mentioned it could be an open uni class, but could be also a gathering of one of those nature inspired spiritual movements so popular at the beginning of the 20th century that assembled together outdoors.

Almost dead on. How about this one:-

winger · Aug 23, 2014

Theo Sulphate said:
Okay, here are mine. They're not really mysterious, but I do have questions about them.

The tank photo was made on December 20, 1948 near Toulon, France. It appears to be a Sherman tank. Writing on the back provides some details. Selymes Alfred is a Hungarian name; someone in our family.

The town hall photo (Városháza) is somewhere in Budapest (this is a postcard from around 1915). Would love to see this site today. I've searched images in Google, but can't find it.

The photo of the soldiers was made in 1915. The one on the far left is my great-uncle. I have others showing a whole platoon, but I think this one was made just to show us his friends.

If anyone cares, my husband says the tank is a Sherman, M4. ("too easy", he also said)
I'll have to go digging around - I have a bunch of negatives from my late grandmother's house and I know some are intriguing.

I.G.I. · Aug 24, 2014

cliveh said:
Almost dead on. How about this one:-

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I think this is earlier photo, perhaps 1900 - 1920. And I might repeat myself, but I am fairly positive the man is a follower of one of those spiritual movements-communes from the beginning of the 20th century; I could be wrong of course but all points to that: not so much shabby as unorthodox appearance, confident posing, content face looking straight at the lens; countryside or park surroundings.

Please tell us a bit about the history behind the photos.

Theo Sulphate · Aug 24, 2014

winger said:
If anyone cares, my husband says the tank is a Sherman, M4. ("too easy", he also said)

Thanks - it is interesting to me. I'm actually surprised someone in my family made a photo that didn't involve people standing around.

cliveh · Aug 24, 2014

I.G.I. said:
I think this is earlier photo, perhaps 1900 - 1920. And I might repeat myself, but I am fairly positive the man is a follower of one of those spiritual movements-communes from the beginning of the 20th century; I could be wrong of course but all points to that: not so much shabby as unorthodox appearance, confident posing, content face looking straight at the lens; countryside or park surroundings.

Please tell us a bit about the history behind the photos.

I believe it is 1930's or 1940's and the caption beneath reads- Theodore 'The Hermit'

removed account4 · Aug 24, 2014

i used to go to junque stores all the time
and buy photographs and photo albums ...
and was gifted hundreds if not thousands of
glass and gelatin negatives and prints last year ...
never scanned any of the images though

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