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Peak and falling autumn color on an unusually warm day at Bond Falls in Upper Michigan. Taken Oct 11, 2015 in Paulding, Michigan.
Bond Fall Paulding Michigan.
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Bond Falls is located north of Watersmeet, Michigan, near the town of Paulding. It has easy access and good flows year around. Fall is my favorite time to photograph this waterfalls, but it is beautiful all year around, even in the winter.
Bond Falls is in the western Upper Peninsula off of Bond Falls Road, east of the Ontonagon County village of Paulding, Michigan. It is created as the middle branch of the Ontonagon River tumbles over a thick belt of fractured rock, dividing it into numerous small cascades. The total drop of the falls is 50 feet. Above the main falls are a series of cascades and rapids that drop a total of 20 feet. The water level is controlled by a nearby dam, and a steady flow over the falls is maintained for scenic reasons. Of course during the spring snow melt the flow is much higher. I’ve been to Bond Falls many times, but this is the first time I visited in the fall.
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. . . this one's for the Christmas card! A doe and her kids were browsing in the side yard of a home in late afternoon. Their natural curiosity along with their instinct to get behind Momma, made for a fun family portrait of this White-tailed deer clan. Taken on Nov. 21, 2014 in Paulding, Upper Michigan, the day before gun/deer hunting season.
nrhp # 80001219- The Old Paulding County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in the courthouse square of Dallas, Georgia, county seat of Paulding County, Georgia. It was built in 1892 and has been renovated several times since. An annex was added. The original building was designed by Bruce & Morgan and is Queen Anne in style.[1][2][3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980.
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Thanks to our late spring, I finally got to visit Bond Falls while there was still snow on the ground. Bond Falls is located on the middle branch of the Ontonagon River east of Paulding in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The water level is controlled by a dam, and a steady flow over the falls is maintained for scenic reasons. The river cascades over a dark, wide rim of ancient volcanic rock, then curves and disappears into a concrete channel that helps minimize erosion. Finally, the water spreads out for dramatic effect at the falls where the river drops almost 50 feet over a wide series of stair-like boulders.
Autumn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula!
Camera - Nikon D700
Lens - Nikon16-35mm
Exposure -..1/120ec
Focal length -24mm
Aperture - f/11
ISO Speed -200
Quality - raw processed in capture NX2
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Reflections on the rushing rapids at Bond Falls created a natural watercolor painting all on its own. Taken October 11, 2015 in Paulding, Upper Michigan.
Retro painted sign for the Village Apothecary, 104 North Williams Street, Paulding, Ohio. The Village Apothecary has been a local drugstore since 1985.
From: "A Steadfast Soldier: The History of the Astoria Victory Monument"
Max Yeley
M.S. Candidate, Historic Preservation
University of Oregon
Presented to the Marion Dean Ross Chapter Society of Architectural Historians
May 18-20, 2018
The bronze soldier that caps the Astoria Victory Monument undoubtedly serves as its centerpiece. Designed by the artist John Paulding, who designed many World War One memorial statues, the official title of the work is “Doughboy Over the Top at Cantigny.” The piece depicts an American Soldier, or “doughboy,” charging a German entrenchment at the battle of Cantigny in May 1918. Poised in a running stance, the soldier holds a rifle high above his head in one hand. Reportedly, the figure faces northeast to represent the direction that American troops charged during the battle of Cantigny.
The prominent details of the statue include the soldier’s wrinkled leather boots, canteen, knapsack, and helmet.
As in most of Paulding’s World War One pieces, the figure appears to be stepping over a small stump wrapped in barbed-wire; the stump is actually attached to the statue’s right leg and functions as a brace. Though made of bronze, the statue is heavily oxidized, and now appears green in color. This physical change has likely been accelerated by the marine environment of Astoria.
The Artist and Architect
The Astoria Victory monument was designed in two parts: the Spanish Revival base was designed by local architect Charles T. Diamond, and the statue was cast by the artist John Paulding.
Charles Diamond designed a few notable buildings in the city, including the Associated Building, the Rivera Building, a local Odd Fellows lodge and Elks lodge, and he played a part in the construction of the Hotel Astoria.
Paulding was a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, owned a studio in that city and, according to one newspaper, was “one of the recognized sculptors of America.”
Taking advantage of the nationwide trend of constructing war memorials during the 1920s and 30s, several artists strove to produce and sell commemorative statues in large quantities.
Famously, sculptors E.M. Viquesney and John Paulding sold their works across the United States. Interestingly, these artists’ most famous pieces (Viquesney’s “Spirit of the American Doughboy” and Paulding’s series of “Over the Top” statues) were remarkably similar.
Each typically features an American soldier in full combat gear, posed as if charging, with a grenade held high in the right hand and a rifle low in the left.
In fact, the pieces are so similar that only those who are familiar with both works can likely tell them apart; Viquesney’s statues stand more erect than Pauldings, possess a flat pack rather than a round bedroll, and always feature two tree stumps at the soldier’s feet. The easiest way to identify an “Over the Top” by Paulding is the brace, wrapped in barbed wire, that attaches below the figure’s right knee.
In the early 1920s, the two artists clashed in a fierce marketing campaign that culminated in a legal battle. Because Viquesney’s statues were made of either pressed copper or cast zinc, and merely coated in bronze, Paulding touted the high-quality of his full-bronze figures.
However, Viquesney’s cheaper statues greatly outsold Paulding’s, as he sold at least 145 “Spirit of the American Doughboy” monuments versus only 40 of Paulding’s “Over the Top” series.
The Astoria Victory Monument features a unique version of Paulding’s “Over the Top.” Produced in four versions, designated the A, B, C, and D models, these variations chiefly differed regarding the figure’s raised right hand. The first two featured an open hand or clenched fist, while in the last two, the soldier held either a rifle or grenade over his head.
The statue placed atop the Astoria Victory Monument is one of Paulding’s Model C variations, as the figure holds a rifle high above his head.
Uniquely, this monument features one of only two of Paulding’s Model C variations known to exist; the other is in Catskill, New York.
Dedication of the Monument, July 1926
As the Founders’ Day Celebration neared, the schedule for the festivities was announced in the Astoria Evening Budget. The celebration was to begin on Tuesday, July 20, 1926 with the dedication of the Lewis and Clark Salt Cairn, followed by the dedication of a historic marker at the Pioneer Presbyterian Church on the Clatsop Plains, and finally the unveiling of the Doughboy Monument.
This last event was to be coupled with an “elaborate program." The main event of the celebration, the dedication of the Astoria Column, was scheduled for the following day.
Completed by July 15, the Doughboy Monument was draped in an American flag until it was unveiled.
The dedication of the monument occurred, as scheduled, on the evening of July 21, 1926. At least 5,000 people attended the ceremony which was followed by a military parade featuring a naval destroyer division, a local National Guard unit, the Seventh Infantry Band, a drum corps, and other civic ensembles.
Later, there was boxing, dancing, and a “midnight supper” to kick-off the Founders Day Celebration
On July 22, the primary event featured similar activities, with an even larger parade, as well as street dances, formal balls, log rolling contests, athletic competitions, band concerts, and singing festivals. To mark the importance of the occasion, five naval destroyers anchored in Astoria’s harbor.
Sadly, a local citizen experienced a medical emergency in August 2017, and crashed his pick-up truck into the east side of the monument. Consequently, the lamp posts of the east-end have been removed, and the walls of the stairwell are heavily damaged.
After a professional inspection, it was determined that the statue must be removed from its base for repairs. Funding for the restoration has been achieved through a grant from the Oregon SHPO, as well as a donation from the Samuel S. Johnson foundation.
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The Soldiers Monument (no apostrophe) in Astoria, Oregon, is both prominent and inaccessible. Every vehicle bound for downtown Astoria from the north or west will pass it.
The operative word here is "pass." Marooned on a traffic island on a major arterial, the landmark suffers from a lack of convenient parking. To make matters worse, the monument is separated from Astoria's walkable and appealing downtown by a long, charmless stretch of road with few attractions.
Visitors who make a point of stopping there, as I did yesterday, will be overwhelmed by the amount of visual blight in the form traffic signal infrastructure, utility poles, guy wires and an overabundance of overhead wires going every which way.
I can't do anything about the Soldiers Monument's location, but PhotoShop allowed me to remove the visual clutter.
Not seen in this photo is the row of alternating white wooden crosses and American flags in the grass next to the sidewalk in commemoration of Memorial Day 2023.
Designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis, this house has been owned by New York City mayor William Paulding, Jr., merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould. In 1961, Gould's daughter Anna Gould donated it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is now open to the public for tours.
The house was first named "Knoll", although critics quickly dubbed it "Paulding's Folly" because of its unusual design that includes fanciful turrets and asymmetrical outline. Its limestone exterior was quarried at Sing Sing (now known as Ossining). The second owner, Merritt, doubled the house's size in 1864–65 and renamed it "Lyndenhurst" for the estate's linden trees. His new north wing added an imposing four-story tower, new porte-cochere (the old one was reworked as a glass-walled vestibule) and a new dining room, two bedrooms, and servants' quarters. Gould purchased the property in 1880 for use as a country house, shortened its name to "Lyndhurst" and occupied it until his death in 1892.
Unlike later mansions along the Hudson River, Lyndhurst's rooms are few and of a more modest scale, and strongly Gothic in character. Hallways are narrow, windows small and sharply arched, and ceilings are fantastically peaked, vaulted, and ornamented. The effect is at once gloomy, somber, and highly romantic; the large, double-height art gallery provides a contrast of light and space.
The house sits within a park, designed in the English naturalistic style by Ferdinand Mangold, whom Merritt hired. He drained the surrounding swamps, created lawns, planted specimen trees, and built the conservatory. The resultant landscape was the first such park along the Hudson River. It provides an outstanding example of 19th-century landscape design, with rolling lawns accented with shrubs and specimen trees, a curving entrance drive that reveals "surprise" views, and a remarkably large [390-foot-long (120 m)] steel-framed conservatory (the first in the United States). This house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. It was the set for the 1970 movie "House of Dark Shadows", and the 1971 movie "Night of Dark Shadows", both based on the famous gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
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Toko Nikki II 4x5 wooden large format field camera.
120mm F5.6 Schneider Symmar-S lens.
Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO B&W film, shot at ISO 400.
Developed in Pyrocat HD at 1:1:100 dilution for 8 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius in Jobo Multitank 5 with 2509N sheet film reels with drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.
Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders fitted with ANR glass.
Lower Bond Falls is a pretty high and wide falls, for Michigan anyway. It was extremely slick all around this side of the falls; I made note to shoot from this POV because of the footbridge I wanted to include, that is hidden by the trees in summer. Bond Falls is a remote waterfall surrounded by the Ottawa National Forest.
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Camera - Nikon D700
Lens - Nikon 16-35mm
Exposure - .5
Aperture - f/11
Focal Length - 30mm
ISO Speed - 100
Quality - raw processed in capture NX2
filter - 3 stop ND + CPL
Tripod - manfrotto-proxb
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Autumn time at Upper Michigan's Bond Falls.
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Camera - Nikon D700
Lens - Nikon 5016-35mm
Focal length - 29mm
Exposure - 2 sec
Aperture - f/11
ISO Speed - 200
Quality - raw processed in capture NX2
Tripod - manfrotto-proxb
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Reflections on the rushing rapids at Bond Falls created a natural watercolor painting all on its own. Taken October 11, 2015 in Paulding, Upper Michigan.
Ice formation along the edges of the upper falls on a cold, bright January morning. Bond Falls, Paulding, Michigan on January 14, 2017.
Thin tree branches are heavily coated with hoarfrost, ice, and snow from hanging closely to the bottom of Bond Falls. Taken January 14, 2017 in Paulding, Michigan.