Good Morning All ! ! !

**Ancienne Alliance** · 18th November 08, 11:59 PM

Just a nice photo to start the day right !

As I will be in Brittany for the next 5 days, I thought it would be nice to share this little wonder with you all before I jump in the train .

I suspect this venerable picture was taken in... Montreal, Canada.

Have a nice week,

Robert

**FreakPower70** · 19th November 08, 12:22 AM

It is a nice picture. Why do you think it is Montréal?

**SFCRick** · 19th November 08, 12:35 AM

those are some huge eagle feathers the clan chiefs have.

**ThistleDown** · 19th November 08, 01:38 AM

We await your return, Robert.

**ozth3dog** · 19th November 08, 02:11 PM

Which gentlemen do you guys think look more bad-ass???? Trick question, we all know the answer.

**Dirk Skene** · 20th November 08, 07:14 AM

I love old black & whites. Cool shot Robert.

**cloves** · 20th November 08, 08:13 AM

i don't understand this picture...the background freaks me out. Are they all standing in front of a hanign back drop? if so...hows does the table fit in??

**Jack Daw** · 20th November 08, 10:48 AM

Look at that. Look at that! They made all the kilted gentlemen stand while the superior trousered gentlemen got to sit. I'm glad things like that don't go on in Canada anymore.

**auld argonian** · 20th November 08, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by cloves

i don't understand this picture...the background freaks me out. Are they all standing in front of a hanign back drop? if so...hows does the table fit in??

It wouldn't be unusual for something like this to pop up in Nineteenth Century photography...it looks more like there was painting done on either the original negative or on a copy of the negative to either put the background in or to "clean up" the background. It looks very much like several of the figures are "stripped in" and that it's a composite photo anyway...again, common in the Nineteenth Century. This stuff didn't start the day that Photoshop was invented.

Best

AA