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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:45:09PM +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
> > Sorry, it's not true.
> >
> > http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
> 
> What I wondered about was if the collection existed at all.
> That's about as true as I hoped, so it is true :-).
> ie I saw no text about the purported origin apart from the "barnfinds" 
> heading, which told little.
> 
> So, it appears to be a genuine collection of cars in Portugal.
> I find the snopes version less than fully likely in fact :-) - eg "... 
> simply hired a photographer ...". The person who collected those 
> images had a camera in their hand, but they were not a commercial 
> photographer by any normal meaning of the name :-). ie it doesn't look 
> like a photo record made by the owner paying someone cash to make it.

Having worked with rich people with no free time I wouldn't be at all
surprised if the photographer was a professional but didn't have the
resources or time to do anything more than simple insurance
documentation. I'm sure he spent ages carefully getting boring shots of
each and every car but had absolutely no reason to worry about anything
more than that.

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a whole market for
photographers specializing in insurance documentation... Look at how
much of a factory operation wedding and portrait photography can be.

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