Digging around in the attic, I found these portraits of my ancestor Algar Ebenezer Boulengeman, a trapper on the Great Plains of Canada:

Algar killed two bears today. Small day.

Incidentally (and unrelatedly), I also took some glass ("collodion") photos on the beach in Trouville this afternoon but they weren't good so I won't show them to you.

Thomas takes collodion photos on the beach in Trouville.

Follow the adventures of Thomas the Photographer on his Instagram page (but it's private and you're probably not cool enough to enter).