Jackson Alexander
Landscaping Professionals
Holy hell I am beat. Today me and my buddy Micah drove 4 hours round trip on pavement, 1 hr 30 minutes round trip on dirt, and walked four miles total - All for one photo. I might be crazy, but I'd say it was worth it.
George Pitarys shot this frame with MLWs back in the day and I knew it would still be possible in the modern age with a little bit of elbow grease. A ridiculously early arrival with nothing more than lunch, a handsaw, and pride found us at the Boston Ranch rock cut with quite the task. We wanted to shoot from either side of the cut and there were so many trees we didn't know where to begin.
We cleared Micah's shot first, as he cut the trees and I moved them clear into the woods. That was the easy part. Afterwards, I climbed up to my side of the cut that I wanted to shoot from and found a wall of trees that needed removal, a rough estimate of 30 or so. From 30 ft tall birch trees to 5-15 ft tall pines, there was one hell of a cut to be made. The saw was not up to task as it broke three separate times, and by the time I was almost done cutting my side it was down to a 1/4 of the length the blade originally was. We persevered however, with me occasionally calling my buddy over to pull a tree down for me or help shove one down the side. After roughly two hours, both sides were clear for a photo.
It isn't as clear around the curve as it was back in the day, and the power is nowhere near as cool as it once was, but the photo location has been restored. It's a large undertaking to get out here, even without having 2 hours of landscaping to do, but I hope to return in the future to take more photos here. In this shot, CPKC 120 glides past Holeb Pond on a sunny autumn day, just a few hours prior to the time that I'm posting this.
Landscaping Professionals
Holy hell I am beat. Today me and my buddy Micah drove 4 hours round trip on pavement, 1 hr 30 minutes round trip on dirt, and walked four miles total - All for one photo. I might be crazy, but I'd say it was worth it.
George Pitarys shot this frame with MLWs back in the day and I knew it would still be possible in the modern age with a little bit of elbow grease. A ridiculously early arrival with nothing more than lunch, a handsaw, and pride found us at the Boston Ranch rock cut with quite the task. We wanted to shoot from either side of the cut and there were so many trees we didn't know where to begin.
We cleared Micah's shot first, as he cut the trees and I moved them clear into the woods. That was the easy part. Afterwards, I climbed up to my side of the cut that I wanted to shoot from and found a wall of trees that needed removal, a rough estimate of 30 or so. From 30 ft tall birch trees to 5-15 ft tall pines, there was one hell of a cut to be made. The saw was not up to task as it broke three separate times, and by the time I was almost done cutting my side it was down to a 1/4 of the length the blade originally was. We persevered however, with me occasionally calling my buddy over to pull a tree down for me or help shove one down the side. After roughly two hours, both sides were clear for a photo.
It isn't as clear around the curve as it was back in the day, and the power is nowhere near as cool as it once was, but the photo location has been restored. It's a large undertaking to get out here, even without having 2 hours of landscaping to do, but I hope to return in the future to take more photos here. In this shot, CPKC 120 glides past Holeb Pond on a sunny autumn day, just a few hours prior to the time that I'm posting this.