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Look at the photos here and I don’t see it. What am I missing?

For the Shroud, the image is not a photograph in that it is not a product of light. What it most resembles is a topographical map with the darker areas of the image directly proportionally to the closer distances of the cloth from the body. However we can see that the man on the shroud was beaten beyond recognition... the bodily wounds from the scourging could alone have killed him from shock. His face was swollen and covered with blood. Anyone who knew him in his unbeaten form would have difficulty recognizing him after the beating.

It is my considered viewpoint that the Manoppello image is not that of Christ so has no bearing on how He looked on his way to the Cross.

I’m with you on that. Although, I thought that I had heard one time that the Shroud was a negative that they thought was caused by very bright light and that there was no pigment. Not sure about all of that but the image in the shroud definitely shows a man that took a beating. It has always fascinated me. The one thing that I must say though is that the picture of my Jesus is not one of a brow beaten man hanging on a tree. It is of a Savior sitting at the right hand of His Father reigning as King!