Symbolic Forest

Following on from last Wednesday’s post, here are some more photos by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, reassembled in colour form to go on my computer desktop.

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Keyword noise: 1910s, desktop background, history, Imperial Russia, photography, Prokudin-Gorskii, Russia, Tsarist Russia, Library Of Congress.

It being the new year, I decided to spruce up my computer with a few new desktop backgrounds. I already have a background-randomising program which picks a new one at random every evening;^* but there’s only so many backrgrounds on the computer, and they’ve not been changed for a while. So, I went to look for more.

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Keyword noise: colour photography, desktop background, Russia, Imperial Russia, photography, Prokudin-Gorskii, Library Of Congress.