Face in the window?

[Suzi]

Hi Philip- Exactly that is a developing tray I reckon (sadly!)
Was the window taken out?

[j.r-ahde]

Hello you all!

If I remember the dimensions of the room correctly, the strange person should be sitting there. I think, that surely someone would have noticed a police constable with a bloody ass...

All right, seriously; it could be a flaw on the negative too. Sometimes these things have happened.

But the most obvious choice is a smudge on the window-pane!

Or then Jack the Ripper was Mike the Midget...

All the best
Jukka

[Suzi]

Hi Jukka!!!
Yep sadly it's one of those things,or a negative nasty -or there again there may be a / on the window- sadly I think there's not!....Mind you there could be a novel in that and how it got there - broken window my a**! LOL!!!!

Maybe Mike the Midget had a propensity to kiss windows!

Ah! -BUT if he went around at low level on a general day to day basis- we may have to look again at the GSG!! He he

Suz x

[George Hutchinson]

Didn't they remove the whole window frame to take the photo? I'm sure I've read that somewhere.

And while I know very little about old-fangled film photography, being a product of the digital age, surely there would be no need for a developing pan on-site? Doesn't that stuff need to be done in a darkroom? I may well know the answer to this somewhere in the clutter of my brain from my reading on the history of photography, but I assume someone like RJM or Mr Clack might be able to answer. Never mind what Hutchinson says, he's utterly unreliable, and not to be trusted

Cheers,
B.

Never heard about the frame being removed to take the photo before, Damon. Sounds extremely far-fetched to me.

Developing pans were certainly needed. This is why, on plate-glass photography, you see images of guys with big black cloths over them when they take the shot. The image has to be developed under the cloth and in the box after being taken. Photographers often had to have location assistants in the same way that golfers have caddys.

And you can stick your final assertion right up your Wellington, NZ. And take your Crowded House with you.

PHILIP

[Supe]

Phil,

It was suggested the pan was part of the photographer's impedimenta, but there was no consensus. And in any case the notion is wrong. The plates would had to have been developed back at the studio in a darkroom. There is no way the images were developed on site. Not unless the photographer arrived in a large enclosed wagon as Matthew Brady employed during the Civil War. Moreover, the process would call for four pans, not one.

Don.

[Suzi]

Hi Don-Ok what is it then?

[Suzi]

OK in case we've forgotten what it looked like- What is it???

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Suzi!

I forgot one possibility from my previous post:

Or maybe MJK had already decided to start haunting...

(If this is the case, we wouldn't need to make sketches of the victim-thread-queen anymore... )

All right, one common sense thought here; maybe it's just a reflection about someone sitting on the street!

All the best
Jukka

[Suzi]

Hi Jukka-
Just showed that pic to a slightly reluctant hubby who said Her hum 'It's a metal tray that's just been left there'- but couldnt offer anything else apart to say it was NO WAY a photographers piece of kit- I agree on that one! They took 'em back to their 'developing' place!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Failing that it IS a litter tray!!! ( I didn't say that!)

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Suzi!

Here comes the original copy obviously closer to the original size!

No face, no smudge! Seems like we have our new "FM" here...

All the best
Jukka

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Suzi!

Ahh, the lovely catsy was here!

(Though acting a bit naughty...)

All the best
Jukka

[Supe]

Suzi,

What is it? I don't know. But, to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a drip pan is just a drip pan.

Don.

[Suzi]

Suzi,

What is it? I don't know. But, to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a drip pan is just a drip pan.

Don.

What?? Don?? Would that be a Drop Pan Centre??? (somewhere for the terminally clumsy!)

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