And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The sharpness of the focus is likely due to the small lens apertures commonly in use in the 1800s. A pinhole camera is in focus for virtually all distances, IIRC.
"And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
ReplyDeleteGold in them hills, and it's waitin' for me there"
I wonder what that portrait cost him?
ReplyDeleteI was going to say something about trigger discipline, but that Colt is at half cock- so....
ReplyDeleteSA's sound so good when you slowly cock them.
Deletewhy does everybody think it's a gun safety course every time there's a picture w/ a gun in it ! sheesh.
DeleteThe sharpness of the focus is likely due to the small lens apertures commonly in use in the 1800s. A pinhole camera is in focus for virtually all distances, IIRC.
ReplyDeleteOr it’s a modern picture… perhaps AI?
DeleteHe looks more like he rode with Civil War irregulars or gangs than a 49'er.
ReplyDeleteJim Morrison's great grandfather?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the prototype for disguises.
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