Re: Rochester night time photos

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Look like streaks from ambient lights to me.

Alan P. Hayes wrote:

> Anyone willing to venture a guess as to what those enormously tall 
> whiskery looking things might be?
>
>> Since we've had several shots of Rochester in the gallery lately, I 
>> thought I'd share this link:
>>
>> "George W. Goddard pioneered the development of nighttime 
>> reconnaissance photography. One night in 1925, he stunned Rochester, 
>> N.Y., by igniting an 80-pound flash powder bomb to light up the whole 
>> city. The result was the first aerial night photograph. Pictured here 
>> is one of his first attempts at recording an aerial view of Rochester 
>> at night.
>> Courtesy of Defense Visual Information Center."
>>
>> http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/lae/images/LE281L18.jpg
>>
>> Greg Fraser
>
>

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