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This building is the headquarters for the Mount Morris Historical Society and a museum dedicated to the history of the Mount Morris and Livingston County area. This museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) due to it's value as a historical structure in Mount Morris. According to the NRHP Archive:
Constructed in 1838, the Mills Homestead was the last home of General William A. Mills, who was the founder and first permanent white settler in the town of Mt. Morris, and a well-known public figure throughout all of Livingston County 157
Isn't the moon dark too,
most of the time?
And doesn't the white page
seem unfinished
without the dark stain
of alphabets?
When God demanded light,
he didn't banish darkness.
Instead he invented
ebony and crows
and that small mole
on your left cheekbone.
Or did you mean to ask
"Why are you sad so often?"
Ask the moon.
Ask what it has witnessed.
~ Why Are Your Poems So Dark? by Linda Pastan
The Felker Round Barn NW of Mt. Morris,IL. The barn is constructed of poured concrete with a central silo for feed storage.Round barns were said to be more efficient,but the difficulty and cost of construction caused them to be the exception,not the norm in barn construction....
On a warm September evening, LSRC 6433 splits the old C&O R2 color-light signals just north of Mt Morris as it brings Y119 down to Flint.
LSRC Y119 17 (Saginaw to Flint, MI and return)
LSRC SD70M #6433
LSRC SD50-3 #6356
Mt Morris, MI
September 17th, 2023
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Warrior Dash Michigan race pictures taken on Saturday, July 28, 2012. Pictures can be used for personal use.
In May/June 1979 I visited the United States, taking with me a new Nikon FE, three Nikkor prime lenses (35mm, 50mm and 105mm) and 60 rolls of Kodachrome 25 film. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
See all the pictures in the American Road Trip 1979 on Kodachrome album www.flickr.com/photos/91846820@N00/albums/72177720312443196/
Camera: Nikon FE
Lens: Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 AI
Film: Kodachrome 25
Scan: Epson V700
Post: Lightroom 6
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. © copyright 1979 Lynn Burdekin. All Rights Reserved.
This photo is taken from Wesley Ave. looking Northwest at the C& I then CB&Q depot at Mt. Morris, IL. The Kable Brothers Printing plant is behind and to the left of the photographer. Judging by the agents car and the ex army troop kitchen sitting on the lead to Buser Concrete, I would assume this photo was taken sometime in the mid to late 1950's. Burlington bought hundreds of ex kitchens and sleepers and converted them for express service. A group of them was dedicated to run from Mt. Morris to Chicago daily.
Photo was purchased years ago off the internet, from Australia to be exact. Photo was not taken by us and credit goes to whoever took it.
Leading the northbound turn back to Saginaw, LSRC 6351 rolls through Mt Morris at dusk. The engineer has the class lights on for this evening's run.
LSRC Y119 17 (Saginaw to Flint, MI and return)
LSRC SD50-3 #6351
LSRC SD40-2 #6301
Mt Morris, MI
September 17th, 2023
Following yesterday's photo of the fire watchtower in Marcus Garvey Park here's an old postcard of the same tower. Interesting that the caption calls this the Curfew Bell and Tower and makes no mention of it's use as a fire watchtower.
Upper Falls, near the highbridge, is a deep horseshoe shape and is 70' high. The top of the falls is part of the strata called the Nunda Sandstone.
As dusk falls on a cool September evening, LSRC 6351 disturbs the peace as it makes its way north to Saginaw.
LSRC Y119 17 (Saginaw to Flint, MI and return)
LSRC SD50-3 #6351
LSRC SD40-2 #6301
Mt Morris, MI
September 17th, 2023
The Lower Falls on the Genesee River located in the Letchworth State Park, about 35 miles southwest of Rochester. There are three major waterfalls, called the Upper, Middle, and Lower Falls and are all loctaed in the Portage Canyon. This is a beautiful placet o visit an after a visit you walk away with a different idea of what you would normally think when you hear "New York". The highest waterfall in New York State is located in the park. It is a spectacular ribbon waterfall that is located on a tributary creek a short distance east of the Inspiration Point Overlook and has a total drop of 350 feet. Within the park there are three large waterfalls on the river and perhaps as many as fifty waterfalls found on tributaries that flow into it; the gorge formed by the river, with rock walls rising up to 550 feet in places and which narrow to 400 feet across above the middle of the three falls, prompted the area's reputation as the "Grand Canyon of the East".
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Photograph taken at the Lower Falls of Letchworth State Park near Mt Morris, New York: July 22, 2010
At one time there were no standards for billboards or roadside advertising campaigns in general. In 1892, two brothers, Aaron and Samuel Bloch of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company of Wheeling, West Virginia started advertising on the side of roadside barns and other types of buildings. The Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company used this method of advertisement for more than a century. Peaking in the 1960’s, the number of Mail Pouch barns rose to approximately 20,000 barns located in 22 states. At one time, Greene County, Pennsylvania had thirty Mail Pouch Tobacco advertising Barns, most of them painted by Harley Warrick, of Belmont, Ohio. Today, only seven remain in the county. This one can be found in Mt Morris along Mt Morris Rd.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 24-85mm F3.5-F4.5 lens @ 30mm, F11, ISO 64.
Illinois Railnet #6 rolls into Mt. Morris to serve a printing company. The Mt. Morris Branch still had several CB&Q concrete post crossbucks along the line.
A pair of ex-PM signals still stand for the holdout to Flint yard in Mt Morris. Y119 slows as it closes in on Flint.
Early Autumn at White Pines
I'm taking a break from the grain elevator show stuff again to post one of those images that has been "marinating" for awhile. I took this on our trip to White Pines State Park in Illinois last year. Initially when I processed it, it just wasn't working for me. Sometimes I have files like that, whether it's the tones, the color balance, the crop or a host of other things that I just can't seem to get right during my initial post process. Sometimes those types of files are unsalvageable. Despite my best efforts when I press the shutter button, the photo just isn't meant to be.
However, sometimes I suddenly am able to find the right tone curve or some other bit of processing that initially eluded me. Such was the case with this file. I've tried tweaking it 4 times per the history in Lightroom. And I'd guess that I probably looked at it at least a few more than that. Something just wasn't clicking previously. But today's efforts yielded an output file that I'm fairly happy with.
I think this is the main reason that I'm often afraid to delete anything but the most egregiously bad photos in my Lightroom catalog. Unless there's some fatal error like mis-focus or camera shake, sometimes it's nice to be able to go back and try to edit old shots with new abilities and knowledge. It makes for a messy, convoluted Lightroom library (which, admittedly, could stand a little TLC when it comes to rating, tagging, etc.) but it's nice to finally produce something I'm happy with on occasion.
I'm going through the backlog of images I have photographed and forgotten about this year. This scene from my September trip to Illinois was amongst the forgotten.
Spent 4 days in the woods and mostly ditched my phone.
I took a risk planning a trip so early in the season. Ten days out the forecast said "High 59/80% chance of rain".
Well, it was summer-like the whole time, never used the rainfly on the tent! As an added bonus, there was a full moon that lit up the forest at night. Here's a shot I took around 3am...
I adjusted the lens during a long exposure for the effect.
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Genesee River and Lower Falls at the Letchworth State Park, New York (NY).
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The heat in the distance appears the air is melting.
Taken in Groveland, NY on Pioneer Road, under the 390 overpass.
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One of my favorite views at Letchworth State Park in New York.
This old train bridge opened for traffic July 31, 1875. The bridge is 820 feet long and 240 feet high.
Sadly, the days are numbered that one can trespass out to gaze at this beautiful scene, for the bridge is to be replaced in the not-so-distant future.
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