Wednesday, October 02, 2013

CRYPTOLINK: An Interesting Photograph from 1938

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. This post, however, is particularly interesting and the author should be congratulated...
Back in May of this year, I came across an auction for a picture which was described as a photograph taken at Loch Ness in 1938. The seller was actually not quite sure if it was but thought it the most likely place. The item sold for £26.00 and that was the end of that. However, my curiosity was piqued and I took a closer look at the JPEG image that I grabbed from the eBay website.




The eBay page is above but the actual image is shown below. Now this is the type of Loch Ness picture that would have been unlikely to make it into a newspaper of its time. After the excitement of the Surgeon's photograph four years previously, the bar had been set pretty high.




Nevertheless, was it taken at Loch Ness and what could it be? Using Google's ever useful StreetView, it came as no surprise that the picture had been taken beside Urquhart Castle at the place where the highest proportion of sightings have been recorded.

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1 comment:

  1. Chris Clark11:25 PM

    Probably not a windrow as the original author says. On water these are just accumulations of floating debris concentrated by the wind-driven Langmuir circulation. A windrow would be less linear, less well-defined and there would certainly be more than just one. Also the wind speed (about Beaufort 2 from the waves) does not seem to be enough for Langmuir circulation. Reflected bow wave from a ship? This needs a scan of the original negative if it exists.

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