Who is this stunner?!?
Appears to be a young lady in her 20s, with fair skin and long dark hair. She's looking right into the camera lens, right into the viewer, across the generations. Sort of hauntingly beautiful. She couldn't have known when the photo was taken (which was in the early days of photography) who would eventually see it, and in what kind of society that viewer would live. A photograph (or video) is such an interesting thing, a literal snapshot of our life, health, appearance, clothing, and other aspects... captured as-is, forever. The moment of the photograph is gone as soon as it is taken, and will never return. Where was she when that image was created? What was her day like? What became of her? Where is that locket now? Who inherited that gorgeous dark brown hair? What was on her mind when the flashbulb exploded and shutter opened?
Oh, to be able to go through a camera lens into the time and place of the photograph. We could travel to anywhere, anytime, as long as somebody had recorded it with a photo.
One place and time I'd go is in this photo. Don't worry, I wouldn't pull any Back to the Future ancestor manipulation on you! I'd just observe. And maybe slip her a note that says "save in gold coins".
That is also the most dramatic of my digital recoveries. The original is barely visible, to take that picture and then find her looking right back at me, it sort of made my heart skip a beat. Indeed, she is a very intense looking person! The dark features got watered down in a flurry of blue-eyed blondes, but every once in a while the dark hair appears, my oldest sister started blond then turned dark. Maybe this lady is the source of that... I