The High-Speed Photographs of Francis Blake

[david b]

Aside from being my wife's great-great grandfather, Francis Blake was a very interesting man.
His photographs are just beginning to become known.
My favorite is Figure 16 (tennis player)

Have a look.

 

[rphenning]

I like figure twelve. The laughing men are really nicely done too. Thanks for the link.

 

[Thomas Wilson]

Truly fascinating, and sad at the same time. I read about him very briefly while in college. It sounds like Francis Blake was (could-should have been) to photography as Les Paul was to the recording industry. Who could forget Les Paul & Mary Ford?

Thanks for that.

 

[pentaxuser]

Thanks for very interesting article. Nowadays we take for granted photographs that were technological wonders of their day. Doves caught in mid flight with a kind of carpet beating twist in their wings which cannot be seen by the naked eye. The motion is far more complicated than it seems

pentaxuser

 

[EASmithV]

Dude, he built a 1/1000 shutter on a 1880s plate camera? Impressive!

 

[Mike Wilde]

in addition to the article on blake, which was very interesting, the same publication has an article by one of the b's in bbn, the hardware grandfathers of the precursor to internet, that made all of these discussions online possible.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

I enjoyed it. Seems like a very interesting person. Love those photos.

Jeff