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A POTD is an acronym for "Photo of the Day", "Picture of the Day", "Post of the Day" or "Poll of the Day". It is a term most commonly used by online digital photography communities as an honor to outstanding photos that are selected daily from among that community's membership. They can either be tagged as POTD or displayed in a special page on that site...

Actually, all these photos were taken recently. Photographer Joni Sternbach used a technique called "tintype" to make them look vintage. Joni Sternbach (b. 1953, United States) graduated from the School Visual Arts with a BFA in photography and completed her Master Arts degree at New York University and the International Center Photography in 1987. She has taught for many years and is currently a faculty member at ICP teaching wet plate collodion...

Swans, genus Cygnus, are birds the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six to seven species swan in the genus Cygnus; in addition there is another species known as a swan, the Coscoroba Swan, although this species is no longer considered related to the true swans...