Post #574457 by abstractiki on Wed, Feb 2, 2011 8:38 PM

Well said as usual Bigbro, nice thread. I have spent many hours manipulating and examining photos in pursuit of Tiki archeology and it is a really fun part of the hobby.

Modern technology has definitely helped in the research and documentation of Tiki history.

It's often funny how I search for a photo hoping to answer a question or satisfy my curiosity but once it's found it leads to ten times more questions.

The more you look at the photo's the more questions you get.

In the future more and more photo archives held in traditional storage will be published on the web. It is inevitable. Many are available now but that is only a fraction of what is sitting in boxes on shelves. Someday they will get around to the labor intensive task of scanning them into an on-line database and as this happens I believe many more historical tiki photos will be found by us TC archaeologists.

Here are a few examples of Tiki archeology through photo's and photo technology.

Artifact Comparison with cut and paste

Identity protection

Photoshop and Color Graphics

Extreme Contrast