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In color it looks like just another picture from someone’s trip
Yeah the glitchy re-colorization makes the river look like it has a huge oil film on it.
It’s not a glitchy re-colourisation as such. This and many other photos were taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky using black and white film and red, green and blue filters. These were then reprojected together to make a colour photograph.
So they are time shifted? And the rivers is discolored because the water surface changed between shots?
Exactly that. And the colour fringing around objects such as the man and the pole he’s holding isn’t because of lens chromatic aberration, it’s just movement between exposures.
Be pretty amazed if the photo was taken 1909 BCE.
Then prepare to be pretty amazed.
