The image above is of historical importance because it is the only known image of a ship other than the Titanic ever to appear in National Geographic magazine but in addition, I say, there's another thing besides that.

Isn't that beautiful? But doesn't it look off a little? Yes, the painter's palette is not as precise as the photographer's lens. No! That's not a painting imitating the realism of a photograph, that is a photograph! It's from 1930 and is an early color photograph made with a newfangled technology using potato starch! Delightful. Potato starch color photography was cumbersome, it gave way to Kodachrome which of course has since been supplanted by the hyper-precision of digital.

That's a girl sitting on a dock in a bay--Did she do the whistle?--in Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. Delightful photograph. More potato starch color photography here.NationalGeoPhotoNOTofTitanic