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Seemingly first class passengers. A sense of what life aboard the Titanic must have been like. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Pennsylvania_(1896). Date is approximate; true date unknown.

SS PENNSYLVANIA

Photo taken aboard the SS Pennsylvania somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean c.1900.  See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Pennsylvania_(1896) for details on this ship. Probably first class passengers, and I think this does give a sense of what life aboard the Titanic must have been like 12 years later.

The water wagon at the prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummins_Unit.

CUMMINS UNIT a/k/a CUMMINS STATE FARM

Arkansas prison, “The Farm”.  Maybe not as well known as the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, but a place to stay far away from if possible. Shown here is the water wagon used for the prisoners out in the fields (April 18, 1957).  See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummins_Unit for a full explanation of the goings on at Cummins.

A farmer pushes his son in a homemade wheelbarrow during the Great Depression, c.1936

SOFT FOCUS – NOT A PROBLEM

All things being equal I believe that most photographers choose to take well focused images. However, there are certain situations where a soft focused image works much better. In the creative world of advertising, motion in a photograph created by blurring or panning adds a new element into an otherwise static, two dimensional image. This practice is also used in sports photography to great effect. But what about photojournalism and documentary photography?

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