Historic Santa Cruz County Courthouse

21 E Court Street, Nogales, AZ Jul 23, 2010 — You will immediately recognize this as a court house from the "Lady Of Justice" on top. The only thing is, she is not wearing her usual blind-fold. How interesting!

 

The town's European history probably starts around 1775, much earlier than most, yet it sits in Arizona which became a state in 1912 the last contiguous state to be admitted. In 1918 it was the site of one of two significant battles on US soil in the war with Pancho Villa. The other one was in New Mexico. Just West of here was the last battle of an Indian War which lasted from 1775 to 1918.

 

Parts of the the movies Oklahoma, along with David and Bathseba, were filmed in or near here. And the town was mentioned in Men in Black. Nogales is a locale for Border Wars. Now that is not surprising.

 

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I shot multiple exposures then converted six images to tiffs using Lightroom. I used Photomatrix to tone-map the HDR image. I spruced-up the image using Topaz plug-ins, and touched-up the image using Photoshop.

 

PENTAX 645D

SMC Pentax-A 645 45mm ƒ2.8

ISO 200, ƒ11, 1/15-1/500

Done