Blixa wrote:
It's funny you picked this one quasi, because it does look so completely fake: especially the "puddle" at the bottom and the cloth face with eye holes!
It's funny you should say that. :)
From an old photographer's point of view, it doesn't have a fake look to me. I will admit that the image is odd to look at.
This was taken and published in the sixties, long before Photoshop. It could be a double exposure (a really professionally done one), but it's defiantly not a sandwiched negative.
To make a double exposure the camera would have to be on a tripod. One would think that the photographer would have leveled the horizon in the photo rather than having a downward tilt from our right to left. It looks hand held.
The provenance of it being a casual photo taken by the church's Vicar stands up, apparently.
The puddle at the bottom is the drapes of his robe, I believe. I don't think it's wearing a cloth face. I think it's a drooping skull. The "holes" are actually empty eye sockets drooping a little.
I have no idea if this is a genuine photo, but it does catch your eye.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.