Fine Art Photography by Emmy C Ludwig
 
We have a book of all the original illustrations from the 1851 edition of The Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and Art which we page through fairly regularly. You may have noticed I've started using a lot of the images in my work. While looking through it one day, we came across a illustration of a beached whale... that looked oddly happy for being in such predicament. So for weeks following, my fiance kept suggesting I use it in something.. along with astrolabes and "baby volcano" (I leave you to decipher that one on your own).

So today when he came home from work, I surprised him with this:

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