"Russia in Color" from the Globe's Big Picture

It's hard to believe these photos were taken about a hundred years ago! Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii created them during a photographic survey of Russia, supported by Tsar Nicholas II, from 1909 to 1912.

He had a special camera that rapidly took three black and white images using red, green, and blue filters (one filter per photograph). The images were later combined into one, and projected with a filtered lantern to create near true-to-life color photos. Pretty amazing for that era, don't you think? The original glass plates are now owned by the Library of Congress.

See more of these stunning photographs here.

DDay in Photos

To commemorate the 66th anniversary of the June 6, 1994 invasion, the Boston Globe's Big Picture put together a "Remembering DDay" collection.

These photos are so moving, and you can't help but be in awe of the massive scale of the operation and the bravery of the men who risked (and sometimes lost) everything for their country.

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Signs of Spring

As soon as I saw these photos of the many lovely signs of Spring from the Boston Globe's Big Picture, I knew I had to share them with you!

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Scenes of Autumn

Autumn sights from The Boston Globe's Big Picture. From top to bottom: the Giant Pumpkin Contest at the Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts, cranberries being harvested in Wisconsin, and a Kashmiri nomad boy carrying a lamb on his back in Srinagar.

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