Forest getaway
I wrapped my current dead leaves of autumn series while still having a load of recent edits. For some reason, this has been hanging around for ages although nondescript, I don't know why I shot it except for the awaiting title. I looked at it again and was shocked by the blown out scale, gamuted on both ends, highlights and shadows. This was an old D70 RAW that probably didn't hold the sensor scale that my full frame Nikon does. The only reason I started fiddling with this dog was the challenge. Gamut still remains in the snow-clad mountains and in the privy... certainly down the rabbit hole. The light seemed to have been deteriorating on that May day. I glanced over at Photoshop and this edit currently consists of 6 open layer including the sky mask. I contained the scale as well as I could while preserving reality without tipping over to an HDRism.
This rough wood outhouse is near the old buzz saw conversion I recently posted in the old Gresham central post office and mining camp. Boy could this oldie provide relief here but count on bringing your own toilet paper. I didn't see any around. I'd pretest this structure a bit before sitting on the throne but that might not slow a panicking feller. Watch for exposed nails. Think of this as a room with a hell of a view. The Divide is showing in the distance. In my humble opinion, this outhouse falls on the side of 50 yards too close. It looks like the siding is pretty tight though.
Gresham lies among the pines in Roosevelt Nat'l Forest, CO, it may have still been operation in 1926 when photographed. I theorize that the original route was from Lyons, Balarat, (and Jamestown) to Gresham. It shows on my 1906 Boulder topo map. I'll add a link to the map in comments. Long ago, we were venturing by truck up the Red Hill Road that connected with the Heil Canyon Road. We made it nearly to the Red Hill divide and puttered at pictures around the old ranch.
Red Hill was a ranch south west of Lyons when we puttered about but now Boulder County has acquired the land for Open Space and created the "Painted Rocks Trail." It's too bad they didn't just follow the old road up. There was a sand stone structure a short way up but I don't know if it was used in conjunction with the old road. Horse drawn wagons would have been the transportation mode in the day. Some old farm and trucking equipment was left strewn about.
Forest getaway
I wrapped my current dead leaves of autumn series while still having a load of recent edits. For some reason, this has been hanging around for ages although nondescript, I don't know why I shot it except for the awaiting title. I looked at it again and was shocked by the blown out scale, gamuted on both ends, highlights and shadows. This was an old D70 RAW that probably didn't hold the sensor scale that my full frame Nikon does. The only reason I started fiddling with this dog was the challenge. Gamut still remains in the snow-clad mountains and in the privy... certainly down the rabbit hole. The light seemed to have been deteriorating on that May day. I glanced over at Photoshop and this edit currently consists of 6 open layer including the sky mask. I contained the scale as well as I could while preserving reality without tipping over to an HDRism.
This rough wood outhouse is near the old buzz saw conversion I recently posted in the old Gresham central post office and mining camp. Boy could this oldie provide relief here but count on bringing your own toilet paper. I didn't see any around. I'd pretest this structure a bit before sitting on the throne but that might not slow a panicking feller. Watch for exposed nails. Think of this as a room with a hell of a view. The Divide is showing in the distance. In my humble opinion, this outhouse falls on the side of 50 yards too close. It looks like the siding is pretty tight though.
Gresham lies among the pines in Roosevelt Nat'l Forest, CO, it may have still been operation in 1926 when photographed. I theorize that the original route was from Lyons, Balarat, (and Jamestown) to Gresham. It shows on my 1906 Boulder topo map. I'll add a link to the map in comments. Long ago, we were venturing by truck up the Red Hill Road that connected with the Heil Canyon Road. We made it nearly to the Red Hill divide and puttered at pictures around the old ranch.
Red Hill was a ranch south west of Lyons when we puttered about but now Boulder County has acquired the land for Open Space and created the "Painted Rocks Trail." It's too bad they didn't just follow the old road up. There was a sand stone structure a short way up but I don't know if it was used in conjunction with the old road. Horse drawn wagons would have been the transportation mode in the day. Some old farm and trucking equipment was left strewn about.