{"id":506,"date":"2013-03-08T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/towardsdolly.wordpress.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:24:41","slug":"a-trick-of-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2013\/03\/08\/a-trick-of-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trick of the Eye\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of working with older forms of visual resources is stumbling across a wide array of images from the banal to the fantastic. Two images in particular have caught my eye \u2013 the first depicts men shearing sheep in a shed at Burrawang Station in New South Wales, Australia in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> or early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century: <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2718.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-510\" alt=\"Sheep Shearers, NSW\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2718.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2718.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2718-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2718-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2718-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The second depicts a bridge and a cathedral and simply labelled: \u2018Zambesi Bridge and Cathedral\u2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2768.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-511\" alt=\"Victoria Falls Bridge St Pauls\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2768.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2768.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2768-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2013\/03\/img_2768-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you spot what makes both of them unusual?<\/p>\n<p>The first image &#8211; while it <i>is<\/i> a photograph several of the men shearing sheep some of those standing in the front have been painted in\u2013possibly to cover up or make clearer a blurred image. The second image is slightly trickier \u2013 hint &#8211; it\u2019s an early form of Photoshop! The photographer has placed a cut-out of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in London underneath the Victoria Falls Bridge in the gorge at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>While one might also wonder how these fit into \u2018animal genetics\u2019, as I\u2019ve written before in a post, the slides images cover a wide range of natural and anthropological sciences, besides it\u2019s great to see scientists have a bit of fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of working with older forms of visual resources is stumbling across a wide array of images from the banal to the fantastic. Two images in particular have caught my eye \u2013 the first depicts men shearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2013\/03\/08\/a-trick-of-the-eye\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,19,26,69,95],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Aqf-8a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}