Beware the Actorians

They blend in with local Angelenos so you never know when you're dealing with one.

Héliographie

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

The world's first permanent camera image shows the view from Niepce's second floor window in 1826. It is a bitumen image on pewter, showing only masses of light and dark tones. The exposure supposedly took about eight hours.

Pale Blue Dot

The photo above was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance.

Von Hogflume

A neighbor of the Von Rieslings in Staffordshire in 1728...or so I thought.