"Pitch-Qabz" from Bukhara - Uzbekistan

[David]

Originally Posted by ALEX

stunning images considering they were taken over 100 years ago

Indeed, though Prokudin-Gorsky's pioneering color work was really created for projection and printing them at the time was quite difficult. What we are seeing here is a brilliant reconstruction though digital means. Of course the raw material of the three different monochrome negatives still needed to be of the highest quality to yield such a lovely result as this. Here is a link to the modern process surrounding the presentation of these 100 year old images. Off topic a bit, but i'm a bit of a photo geek.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html