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The OP for this said it is Steve Jobs lighting a joint for his dad in 1972.

Faded instant photo of a long-haired person in a dark jacket holding a lit cigar toward a blond person in glasses seen from behind, in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper.
 
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Faded, warm-toned snapshot of a long-haired person with white gloves holding a white cylindrical object toward the right, against a patterned wallpaper; a red diamond-shaped overlay appears in the upper right.


I'm a little suspicious about that being Steve Jobs -- the face looks rather feminine (but I don't have a photo to compare it to).

Also, does anyone recognize the wall decoration now that it is enhanced?

Cheers,
Tom
 
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Tom.G said:
I'm a little suspicious about that being Steve Jobs -- the face looks rather feminine (but I don't have a photo to compare it to).
Here's a high school yearbook photo of Jobs:
Black-and-white yearbook-style portrait of a young man with shoulder-length hair in a dark jacket and bow tie, smiling slightly. Caption below reads: Jobs while he was at Homestead High in 1972.

I do think he's the young man in the color photo.
 
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Tom.G said:
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I'm a little suspicious about that being Steve Jobs -- the face looks rather feminine (but I don't have a photo to compare it to).

Also, does anyone recognize the wall decoration now that it is enhanced?

Cheers,
Tom

renormalize said:
Here's a high school yearbook photo of Jobs:
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I do think he's the young man in the color photo.
I thought so. I immediately recognized him.
 
Tom.G said:
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I'm a little suspicious about that being Steve Jobs -- the face looks rather feminine (but I don't have a photo to compare it to).

Also, does anyone recognize the wall decoration now that it is enhanced?

Cheers,
Tom
It looks to me like it might be the Chinese symbol Shou. They say it is often displayed inside of a circle and is the symbol for longevity
https://www.chinese-word.com/data/0903.html

There are a few variations on how this is written. And I know nothing about the Chinese language.

Large black brush-style Chinese character 壽 (shòu, longevity) written in a square grid with orange guide lines.
 
Mom and Dad

Black-and-white studio portrait of a smiling woman with short dark hair seated holding a dachshund, with a man in a suit and tie standing behind her with his hand on her shoulder.

Betty and Barney Hill
 
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Some nice effects on the clouds, the flood lights got in the way I thought but now they are framing the images

Silhouetted floodlight masts of varying heights against a sunset sky with orange glow near the horizon and streaky clouds, with a fence and trees in the foreground.
 
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WARNING!​
DO NOT USE ON A WINDY DAY.
With no handrail, I wouldn't use it even on a perfectly calm day.
 
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BillTre said:
Its a modern building's version of a secret passage.
One thing that comes to mind is that it's not real. We see what we see but it was a publicity stunt.

Next, fire escape. But why no handrails? It must be a stunt.
 
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One thing that comes to mind is that it's not real. We see what we see but it was a publicity stunt.

Next, fire escape. But why no handrails? It must be a stunt.
After a bit of detective work off @Arjan82's Google Maps link, it's art, apparently. There doesn't appear to be an English Wikipedia page, so here's the German Wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongresshaus_(Biel). The section titled Kunstwerk describes it. I'll let you drop it into your own favourite translator, but I think it says the doors are just stuck onto the concrete, which is actually a pillar separate from the building and I suspect doesn't even have any interior spaces.
 
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BillTre said:
Its a modern building's version of a secret passage.
Maybe it's for cats.
 
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Yesterday we thought we were going to get our first snowfall in three years. Instead we got freezing rain.

Night photo of trees and shrubs in a yard coated with ice, glistening under a street light, with bare trees and a lit roadway in the background.
 
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Last weekend, a hike again: this time not in the 'backyard', but a different range of hills.
Same hills this weekend: though it was a different track this time.

With and without light:
Sunlit conifer forest edge at the top of a snowy clearing, with bare trees framing the sky and cut tree stumps in the foreground.
Winter landscape of a clearing with patchy snow on the ground, bordered by a dense band of bare conifer and deciduous trees under a partly cloudy sky.


The Left, the Right and the Trees:
Dusk landscape photo of bare silhouetted trees along a ridge under a blue sky with pink-lit streaked clouds, dark foreground ground.


Nope. No way. Not me.
Looking up from below at a metal scaffold tower with frosted pipes and a ladder, topped by a dark wooden lookout cabin against a deep blue sky.


It's nice from down here too...
Looking up through bare deciduous trees with branches heavily coated in white frost against a deep blue sky.


So many so blue and so white...

Frost-covered deciduous trees on a hillside under a deep blue sky, with dry golden grass in the foreground and a leaning tree trunk at right.


...and in the meanwhile down the hill it's like spring already...
Wide view over rolling brown hills and open pasture from a height, with a dense dark green conifer patch in the middle distance, a small village with red roofs on the right, and distant blue mountains under a pale sky.
 
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Rive said:
Nope. No way. Not me.
Hey, no pain, no gain. 🙂
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It's nice from down here too...
Lovely!
Rive said:
So many so blue and so white...
That's a gorgeous shot, I think! 👍
Very, very unusual color combinations, making it look a bit "unreal". Very nice!

Edit: If you have the opportunity to do more of those, I'd say go for it 🙂.
I really like the color combinations in that shot (dark blue sky, pale snow on trees, light green and yellow shades on the ground).
 
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