r/PacificNorthwest • u/MrDangerMan • 4d ago
Camping image with Mt. Hood in the background, circa 1935.
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u/Lord_Hardbody 4d ago
What the hell is going on here, this HAS to be doctored in some way. I’m not saying it’s AI, but it does look like a photo collage. Look at everyone’s proportions, and the angle of the bear rug, the boats in the water, the perspective problems. It’s very strange
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u/MrDangerMan 4d ago
Yeah it definitely looks staged. And a bit brushed up too. Was probably for a promotional of some sort.
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u/Lord_Hardbody 4d ago
The more I look at it the more confused I become. I bet you’re right, it’s gotta be a promo or something
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u/Proud_Cauliflower400 4d ago
It's not AI, it's HI. Human intelligence. A lot of old photos were doctored. A combination of different images combined together. They were called composite photographs.
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u/Lord_Hardbody 4d ago
Oh for sure, I understand that this is a photo collage. But it’s still SUPER weird and unsettling to look at, and I was concerned that i was the first person to say something about it not being a photograph, per se. Someone pointed out it’s likely a promotional image and I think that’s spot on
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u/Proud_Cauliflower400 4d ago
I agree. It's definitely a strange photo to look at in some ways. It's kinda interesting what they could do, even back then, regarding composit photos. The amount of time and the process of doing so would probably seem daunting to us these days.
I often think about just what it might be like to bring the photographers and developers (I don't know what their official title would have been back then) to today and show them how both cameras and developing modern film and digital photos would be like. I feel like their minds would be blown.
I would like to go back to their time, with a modern camera and take photos and come back.
Imagine what this photo and moment would look like taken with modern tech?!
While I'd be sad to have taken the photos, but to be able to see this picture in the real life moment, during that time, it would be absolutely amazing.
Ugh. I'd have a real hard time not going back to rural route 2 now known as Camp Creek rd/MJ Chase rd and taking photos of my family in the 20's and 30's.
"My name is Michael Chase, I'm a distant relative (lol) I'd like to take all of y'alls photos together to share with other family members. 🤣" then pull out a modern camera and take a photo, show it to them on the screen and then when they get all freaked out, I'd press the button on my time travel device and zip back to the present time. Imagine seeing folks from that time with your own eyes? Or on a modern digital camera. I realize that I'd be breaking all the back to the future time continium however that's spelled, rules, but fucc it lol.
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u/Just_A_Dogsbody 4d ago
Anyone know what lake this is?
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u/LendogGovy 4d ago
Illumination saddle is on the right side, which means this is the west side of the mountain, so Lost Lake.
If it was Trillium, illumination rock round be on the left side.
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u/Proud_Cauliflower400 4d ago
If only I had a time machine and could spend a couple days camping at the exact time this picture was taken. I wonder if I'd ever leave.
I'd travel however possible with whatever money I could earn to some of the most magical places back then. Crescent Lake, Diamond Peak, the Rogue River, Portland would be interesting af to see back then, Salem, Medford, Grant's Pass, Roseburg, Bend. I'd have to somehow meet my great great, great, and grandparents who were all alive in 1935. It'd be interesting to see them in real life and not in the hundred of photos I have of them back then. I've often wondered what they'd think of me.
I'd break all the rules and go back and tell my mom to get a colon cancer screening sooner, but that would possibly mean that I wouldn't have gotten a divorce, and it would possibly mean I wouldn't have met my youngest daughter's mom. I wouldn't trade one for the others' life. My youngest daughter means too much to me. Time travel would be to dangerous.
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u/-MetaMaze- 4d ago
Love old photos, but the clothes they wore, especially outside/around water, give me existential dread.
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u/gypsyman9002 4d ago
Mt. Hood: the prettier cascade.
Suck it, Rainier. You’re tall, and that’s all we’re giving you.
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u/SeasonalMildew 4d ago
100% Lost Lake. This is at or near the north viewpoint.