[Geysers] Re: Geysers Digest, Vol 1392, Issue 1

[Ron Keam]

If you are referring to Jeff Cross's posting, since that is the only 
message on this list that I have received that mentions enhanced 
photos of Waimangu, the situation is as follows:

(1) The C. Shepherd view:  This is not retouched at all.  I think my 
friend, Ted Lloyd, now owns the original negative.  Shepherd set up a 
tent and employed two or three assistants to provide teas to 
visitors, and it is his assistants who are posing in the foreground.

(2) The Hislop album view:  This was touted in1903 as being 
Waimangu's highest shot, but the water masses do not look natural.  I 
was not surprised to find a photograph showing the steam on the 
periphery exactly the same and with a much lower shot for the geyser, 
so an artist has certainly "improved" this picture.

(3) Vail photo:  This is a  photograph of a painting

(4) Charles A. Lloyd photo:  So far as I can tell this is a genuine 
photo, not enhanced in any way.  I think I possess a photo taken by 
another photographer within a second or so of this one as I recognise 
an echo of its steam pattern in the Lloyd photo.

There is at least one other example of a pair of photos of Waimangu 
taken from different places but showing the same eruption.  In that 
case the photographers were C. Shepherd and A. Iles.

Ron Keam

>What is it meaned by the photographs of Waimangu being enhanced? Is 
>the implication that the eruptions were not as tall as the pictures 
>would suggest?
>
>Thanks,
>Jennifer Black
>
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