This is an obscure visual joke. It’s a photo of the monument to Charles Tennant that stands in the necropolis behind Glasgow Cathedral. Charles Tennant was the man who invented bleaching powder. It made Mr. Tennant rich and contributed to Glasgow’s reputation as a hub of the industrial world. The joke: to treat this photo, I used a bleach bypass, one of the filters from Nikon’s Color Efex Pro Photoshop Plugin. Ha, ha, ha! And if you’re really sharp, you’ll note the irony that something (harsh weather?) has eaten away Mr. Tennant’s face. The same thing happened to his employees two centuries ago. Exposure to the chemicals used in manufacturing bleach did to his workers’ faces pretty much the same thing that time and acid rain have done to his statue.
