Tradition lives on in the name of the tools used to alter digital photographs, like dodge and burn , both physical darkroom manipulation techniques.
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FSogol
September 28, 2024, 1:16pm
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You can’t fool me. There used to be giant grasshoppers but the Jacalopes ate them all.
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d4l3d
September 28, 2024, 2:41pm
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Too bad he missed the 'hopper’s shadow. Hard to believe this really caught fire with the obvious flaw.
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this image marks a significant milestone in the history of photo editing.
It’s a fun image, but I don’t know about a “milestone”. Canard was copying the already established “exaggerated animals and vegetables” photo postcard craze that was popular in the Midwest from 1900-1920. Canard definitely seemed to corner the grasshopper market though. He made a ton of different photos of them.
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The only known photo of Frank D. “Pop” Conard.
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We’ve got a copy of this photo up in the lab.
yet
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Turns out it was just a regular grasshopper photographed with a man who was four inches tall.
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hecep
September 28, 2024, 10:02pm
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Here’s the post card for the train hold-up…
… then this gift from the Search Engine Bonus Gods, a cafe in South Korea :
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hecep
September 28, 2024, 10:05pm
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I don’t believe it. No one makes rifles that small.
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damn, i was late again!
came here for the jackelope.
leaving satisfied!
looks like the original photo of the dude with the gun, may have been holding a hare or a pheasant, before the darkroom addition of the superimosed lubber (and that’s a goddamn lubber! )replaced the catch.
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The Formicidae, however, are already there.
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TBF - there are some big fucking grass hoppers in Kansas. I didn’t like them as a kid.
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hecep
September 29, 2024, 11:05pm
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Big enough for something like the Humanx Commonwealth ?
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nosaj
September 30, 2024, 12:18am
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Scientist:
yet
South America has entered the chat…
source
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snigs
September 30, 2024, 1:53am
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†Mesotitanidae
†Paratitanidae
†Gigantitanidae
†Theiatitanidae
Titanoptera is an extinct order of neopteran insects from late Carboniferous to Triassic periods. Titanopterans were very large in comparison with modern insects, some having wingspans of up to 36 centimetres (14 in) or even 40 centimetres (16 in).
Titanopterans are related to modern grasshoppers, but were much larger, had proportionally weaker hindlegs that could not allow the animals to leap, and grasping forelegs and elongated m...
Predatory grasshopper kin that had wingspans up to 16"/40cm.
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That giant red-winged is huge, but you don’t see how pretty they are unless you see them with the wings open.
Also, to quote FloridaManJefe “that’s a goddamn lubber!”
(same subfamily as the eastern lubbers in Florida)
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There’s another large, but lesser-known, variety found in the London Underground.
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