Daguerrotype photograph taken by a 19th Century explorer to prove he had found a lost city in the heart of Africa.

Created for a challenge requiring a daguerreotype creation. Since it was difficult to get living human beings to hold perfectly still for several minutes to give you a good exposure of them, I decided to go in a different direction and create a daguerreotype of one of the "Lost Cities" which were such popular plot devices in the fiction of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The sort of thing, tucked away in a remote valley unknown to the outside world, which Tarzan (for instance) frequently stumbled into in his adventures (although those were generally set in the early decades of the 20th Century).