What kind of building is this and where??

[Romilly]

It wasn't  meant to be taken seriously Lydart, - but I've taken it off anyway.

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[wheeldon]

Just another suggestion....

I wonder if it could be an exhibition room at a museum ?

[Lydart]

Now that IS an idea !!  I'd go along with that !

[dennford]

Just another suggestion....

I wonder if it could be an exhibition room at a museum ?

That would explain the very even lighting.


                                               Denn

[Gadget]

If this photo was taken circa 1870 (Prue's earlier posting) , I believe they were still experimenting with artificial lighting - magnesium flares and powder, etc. It's more likely that it would be a very long exposure with natural lighting, as you say, Denn.

I'm yet to be convinced that it isn't a 'set' of some kind but, bearing in mind the story of the two women, could it possibly be some kind of spiritualist/supernaturalist room for communing with whatever they communed with ('the other side'). It might explain the strange collection of objects and arrangements.

Somehow, it does give the feeling of Jane Eyre's mad woman in the attic or Rosemary's Baby.

Gadget

[martianuk]

bearing in mind the story of the two women, could it possibly be some kind of spiritualist/supernaturalist room for communing with whatever they communed with ('the other side'). It might explain the strange collection of objects and arrangements.

Gadget

Ah, but the two women weren't born until the mid-late 1890's. That said, maybe being clairvoyant is inherited and this room could have belonged to someone else in the family - an ancestor.

Clearly I didn't inherit any gifts, or I would be able to ......wait.....

.......uh huh.....

.......uh huh.....

.......I see something.......


Nope. Not today 

[d.weaving]

I wonder if the light source is coming through the actual ceiling itself...ie.the material used???..just a thought...and what is that object in the ceiling above the alcove at the end.

Derek.

[dennford]

Still on the lighting - because this is definately unusual lighting.

Let's look at the shaddows. as indicted in this pic'

at point 1 the shaddow is on the right

at point 2 the shaddow is on the left

at point 3 the shaddow is at the front

at point 4 the shaddow is again on the left

at point 5 the shaddow is on the right

strange as it may seem this indicates that the light scource may have been moving. An architectural photographer does indeed use a method known as painting with light wheras he walks around a poorly lit subject putting light where he wants it. Normally this would result in a well exposed photo' and although he was walking around the area he doesn't appear in the pic' - that is of course dependent on him not lingering in any one place, if by some chance he does linger too long in the one place then we would find a ghostly figure in that area of the photo' - does this ring any bells.

                                  Denn

[Gadget]

I'd like to know what Kirsty and Hayden think this picture is of/about, from the information that they have.

Are these people related to the women?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,190511.0.html


Gadget