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Found a photo on my walk today ...

8 years ago

I picked it up from a tangle of weeds and placed it on a retaining wall where I snapped it with my phone. The slight creepiness factor thrills me, particularly as Halloween is approaching. Or maybe I'm just easily amused. Check out the staircase behind her! I'd love to know who she was (is?) and when this photo was made. No identifying marks on the back.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

So cool! I imagine it falling out a box of papers after someone 'cleaned' out a garage, basement or attic & then blowing away.

& FYI, there are a number of sites dedicated to 'found' photos; Flickr has a good 1...

https://www.flickr.com/groups/foundphotos/pool/

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bpath
8 years ago
It looks like a faux staircases, and maybe this is a studio portrait, but then it would have a studio mark on the back. Intriguing!
User
8 years ago
Did you keep it?
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Original Author
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
It does look like a faux staircase. I love its eeriness in the background. Nope, didn't keep it. Just took a picture of it and left it for someone else to find.
dedtired
8 years ago
Don't you wonder who she is and about her story? Very cool and very creepy.
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Original Author
8 years ago
I really do, dedtired. I can't quite tell which decade she's from. I wonder how "she" ended up in a creepy-crinkled state, just lying there on the side of a suburban thoroughfare. She was pretty.
User
8 years ago
Wow. What a strange find. Weather obviously hadn't gotten to it, so someone lost it recently.
Annie Deighnaugh
8 years ago
Quite the mystery.
User
8 years ago
Tornadoes blow things to the far corners of the earth.
Annie Deighnaugh
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
But there's something oddly familiar about her....almost dolores del rio...
mama goose_gw zn6OH
8 years ago
She looks like Gloria Estefan
hhireno
8 years ago
How intriguing. And she does resemble Gloria Estefan.

Did anyone see the French movie Amélie? I loved the explanation of why she kept finding the strips of photos. Actually, I loved that whole movie.
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Original Author
8 years ago
I can definitely see the resemblance to Ms. Estefan. She also reminds me of a woman I used to work with, and now I'm entertaining thoughts of trying to contact her to see how she's doing all these years later.
skibby (zone 4 Vermont)
8 years ago
It reminds me of a book jacket. Could it be?
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Original Author
8 years ago
I don't think so. It was definitely a photo, mounted on what looks like a heavier card stock - or whatever it was they used for photos years ago. I'll be interested to see if the photo is still where I left it when I go walking again.
voila
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
http://willows95988.typepad.com/tongue_cheek/2015/09/index.html Speaking of photographer's back drops, this is from Tongue in Cheek's blog. Fabulous, no?
anitamo
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
What is more creepy is what Google considers to be "visually similar images."
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Original Author
8 years ago
That is uber-cool, voila! And now I have a new blog to peruse. I've never been there, but lately I've been a bit obsessed with France. Someday ... Someday.

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