Persepolis ca. 1850
Kenya’s rapidly disappearing tribe of the Samburu people, from the series Before they pass away by British photographer Jimmy Nelson
Glorious afternoon break from the wild Aegean Meltemi winds, at serfers paradise Ftelia beach, Mykonos island, Greece. Image WWT
The Ptolemaic Temple of the falcon god Horus at Edfu, Egypt, photographed by Antonio Beato, during the fascinating but dubious times of the first excavations, conducted by self-taught egyptologist Auguste Mariette.
Portland Art Museum – via hotpotato
Images from the series Greetings from Paradise by American photographer Mike Belleme.
Check out Mike’s treehouse in the woods of Asheville, NC here
Previously: romance tourism in Kenya by Sofie Amalie Klougart
Fils de Roi, Portraits d’Égypte
Selection of images from the series Fils de Roi, Portraits d’Égypte and Ghana by Kairo based, French photographer Denis Dailleux
Antarctic landscapes from the Age of Heroic Antarctic Exploration, by British photographer Herbert Ponting, member of the fatal Terra Nova Expedition led in 1910-1913 by Captain Scott.
As the expedition photographer and cinematographer, the self-taught Ponting, manage to set up a tiny photographic darkroom in Antartica, inside the expedition’s winter camp. Although this came more than 20 years after the invention of photographic film, Ponting preferred high-quality images taken on glass plates (source).
He return to civilization in 1912 -before the catastrophic end of the Terra Nova Expedition– with more than 1700 large-format glass plate negatives.
You may find more at Royal Geographical Society and Scott Polar Research Institute