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Sorry, SpaceParrot, but that really is most probably a woman with her back to the camera, hand on hip, possibly bending at a slight angle to compensate for the gentle slope. She seems to be wearing a headscarf and a soft, white, figure hugging, cardigan. Just the sort of clothes a woman might have worn on a slightly windy, but fine day, back in the Sixties.SpaceParrot said:>...The picture is easily hoaxable with a 1960s camera, the photographic experts are plainy talking through their arseholes
I assume then with the same kit, same film speed, grain, no photoshop, no pc help at all in fact you'll knock up your own unfathomable duplicate? (Lest ye be judged to be talking out of your nether region too).
I suspect you too are suggesting Mr Templeton was blind or a liar. Or that there are hulky women knocking about the meadows with heads that do that Exorcist thing.
If anyone out there ever sees anything genuinely fantastic, don't bother photograph it, for it'll never be accepted for what it is.
Why someone would still wish to insist that the figure is facing the camera, when the figure's elbow is quite clearly bent towards the the camera, I must admit, I find that a bit baffling.
As to the photographer, not noticing the figure in the background of the shot. This is the sort of snap someone might take with an 1960's Instamatic, which would have had a very primitive viewfinder. Concentrating on framing the close up shot, the photographer may simply not have noticed what was going on in the background.
Is the woman 'hulking'? Not sure, but she does seem the sort of solid, middle aged, type to have enjoyed a day out in the car with her hubby, having packed a thermos flask of sweet, milky tea and a picnic lunch of bloater paste sandwiches.
Next time you see, for example, a muslim woman on the street, wearing a head scarf, take a good look at her from the back. You might be surprised as to just how solid she appears to be.