Silflay linked up these very interesting color photographs from World War I. Maybe the shutterbugs in the audience can help explain why these pictures are, for the most part, so startlingly clear and bright, when most other WWI photography seems so gritty and dindge. Subsequent photoshopping?

Regardless, I think it's a bit startling to realize every single person in these picturees, right down to the children, are now long gone. It was a time of fundamental transition from the pastoral to the industrial, and as such there are many, many reminders of a far different age than our own. It's good to keep in mind these people had no access to antibiotics, usually had more than ten children (of whom perhaps seven would live past their fifth birthday), and typically (in the US at least) lived on a farm with mules instead of tractors.