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Sleeping Giant is a fault-block ridge formed 200 million years ago during the Triassic and Jurassic periods and is composed of traprock, also known as basalt, an extrusive volcanic rock. The rocky notch shown here at the western end was a former rock quarry that ceased operating in 1933.
See below for a full view of Sleeping Giant.
This image is included in a gallery "Variety." curated by Andrzej Skałuba.
This was taken during my first visit to the Park. It was overcast the whole morning. There were glimpses of blue sky for very brief moments. The sidelit light makes the reflections of the columns on the Jacksons Creek interestingly beautiful.
The hexagonal basalt columns known as the "Organ Pipes" which sit in the bed of the creek is of the order of 70 metres (230 ft) high.
The Organ Pipes National Park, abbreviated as OPNP, is a national park located in the Central region of Victoria, Australia. The 121-hectare (300-acre) protected area was established with the focus on conservation of the native flora and fauna, and preservation of the geological features in the Jacksons Creek, a part of the Maribyrnong valley, north-west of Melbourne. It is situated in a deep gorge in the grassy, basalt Keilor plains.
Within Organ Pipes National Park, the valley walls of Jacksons Creek expose Pleistocene volcanic rocks of the New Volcanic Group. These 2.5 to 2.8 million year-old basalt lavas, commonly known as "trap rock," fractured during cooling into vertically standing, hexagonal basalt columns. These columns are locally known as the "organ pipes" for which this park is named. Over the last one to two million years, the slow cutting by Jackson Creek of its valley down into the basaltic plains and through the underlying trap rock exposed these geological structures. The bottom of the valley of Jackson Creek also exposes a prehistoric buried creek valley, which is cut into 400 million year-old (Silurian) mudstones and sandstones. The bottom of this buried valley contains ancient creek gravel. Both the ancient river valley and the Silurian sedimentary rock lies buried beneath the basaltic volcanic rocks of the New Volcanic Group. Marine fossils that are found in the Silurian sedimentary rocks demonstrate that they accumulated beneath a prehistoric ocean.
A Friends’ group, (the first in Australia) the "Friends of Organ Pipes" (FOOPS), comprising conservation activists to support the efforts of rehabilitation of the OPNP’s indigenous flora and fauna, supplemented the work of the Victoria Park system under which the OPNP was declared a National Park. The park's importance to the whole region as a "center for education about the geology, flora and fauna of the Keilor Plains, and the restoration of degraded land" is important. With its inclusion in the IUCN Category III (Natural Monuments) of the United Nations’ list of National Parks and Protected Areas, there is a greater recognition of the need to protect or preserve outstanding natural features. (Sourced from Internet)
When Dresser was still a junction on the Minneapolis & Sault Ste.Marie original mainline, with the line that split off to Superior, and through freights were still running, the Soo Line still got its rock from the pit at Dresser. This pair of SD40-2's (751-763) are busy putting together the westbound ballast train that will head towards Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, and then to wherever the "traprock" was needed as the trackwork season is fully underway. The wye split behind the units where the track forces are also getting some projects done. The continuation of the line to S.S.Marie swings to the right of the section sheds in the distance, while the line to the Twin Ports of Duluth/Superior swings to the left of the sheds. The ballast supply is along that line, and is still a source for CP's track projects today.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
The Great Falls are the second-highest volume waterfall on the east coast (second only to Niagara). The Great Falls thunders over a rocky ledge, 70 feet deep, about 60 feet wide to a broad basin descending 20 feet through traprock and sandstone to the City of Paterson.
These stones were found on the top of a traprock/basalt cliff when I was out hiking last weekend. They really caught my eye, and liked the shapes and colors of the stones paired with each other. I have no clue what kind of minerals are in the rocks to make them turn these colors. All I do know is that they are beautiful colors! I felt that these shapes lended to a very minimalist photo, so I got out my white tagboard, and my home-made light box and set to work. After a lot (ton) of fiddling, I was able to get the stones to pose in a pleasing manner without falling over. I set the light directly overhead and slightly to the front of the rocks to get an even light, but with no harsh shadows on the front face. Overall, this worked a treat. I think this was 5 photos that were focus stacked, but it could have been 4 as well.
Overall, it was a fun little photo shoot. Let me know what you think! Enjoy :)
Apparently this was on Explore 3/3/16 #225 :)
Johnny Patterson, The Rambler From Clare by Matt Morgan
The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie; Cooper, Bailey & Co.; The Great International
Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin
Shot digitally with a NIkon P3 Through The Viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex II. Post processed digitally.
Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin
Shot digitally with a NIkon P3 Through The Viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex II. Post processed digitally.
Carnival gaff. Displayed in states where real medical oddities were illegal. This exhibit was reportedly made in Missouri in 1919.
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Circus World, Baraboo, WI
Shot digitally with a NIkon P3 Through The Viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex II. Post processed digitally.
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The Great Falls are the second-highest volume waterfall on the east coast (second only to Niagara). The Great Falls thunders over a rocky ledge, 70 feet deep, about 60 feet wide to a broad basin descending 20 feet through traprock and sandstone to the City of Paterson.
As seen from Hamden, CT
You would think that finding a spot to take a photo of a mountain would be easy, right? It is a mountain, they are huge! It isn't like a mountain could be hiding from you. It is miles long and the peak of it is well over 700 feet.
"Easy" was not the case for getting a decent shot of Hobbomock, the Sleeping Giant. So much has been built up through the years as well as vegetation. It was quite the trip! It took three trips out to CT to find just the right spot to see most of the giant's body. One time I ended up on private property but the owner didn't seem to mind. Another classic spot to see it has been changed with the addition of a grain silo that where it is placed, looks like the Sleeping Giant was permanently "excited". Tried the top of a parking garage, nope! A mall parking lot, nope! ARGH!
But thanks to Google Street View I finally found a spot at the last hour and was glorious. The Sleep giant as seen from the vicinity of Sherman Avenue and New Road in Hamden, CT.
Read all about this Wicked Strange New England Legend in Wicked Strange. Out now!
This image is included in 4 galleries :- 1) "As Tho Everything Is a Miracle 8" curated by thanks 173rd Airborne, 2) "Most Outstanding Landscapes in the World" by mark doyle, 3) "I Was Born a Rambling Man 10" by thanks 173rd Airborne and 4) "I Was Born a Rambling Man 1" by thanks 173rd Airborne.
This was taken on a fine autumn morning. The sidelit light makes the reflections of the columns on the Jacksons Creek interestingly beautiful.
The hexagonal basalt columns known as the "Organ Pipes" which sit in the bed of the creek is of the order of 70 metres (230 ft) high.
The Organ Pipes National Park, abbreviated as OPNP, is a national park located in the Central region of Victoria, Australia. The 121-hectare (300-acre) protected area was established with the focus on conservation of the native flora and fauna, and preservation of the geological features in the Jacksons Creek, a part of the Maribyrnong valley, north-west of Melbourne. It is situated in a deep gorge in the grassy, basalt Keilor plains. Within Organ Pipes National Park, the valley walls of Jacksons Creek expose Pleistocene volcanic rocks of the New Volcanic Group. These 2.5 to 2.8 million year-old basalt lavas, commonly known as "trap rock," fractured during cooling into vertically standing, hexagonal basalt columns. These columns are locally known as the "organ pipes" for which this park is named. Over the last one to two million years, the slow cutting by Jackson Creek of its valley down into the basaltic plains and through the underlying trap rock exposed these geological structures. The bottom of the valley of Jackson Creek also exposes a prehistoric buried creek valley, which is cut into 400 million year-old (Silurian) mudstones and sandstones. The bottom of this buried valley contains ancient creek gravel. Both the ancient river valley and the Silurian sedimentary rock lies buried beneath the basaltic volcanic rocks of the New Volcanic Group. Marine fossils that are found in the Silurian sedimentary rocks demonstrate that they accumulated beneath a prehistoric ocean.
A Friends’ group, (the first in Australia) the "Friends of Organ Pipes" (FOOPS), comprising conservation activists to support the efforts of rehabilitation of the OPNP’s indigenous flora and fauna, supplemented the work of the Victoria Park system under which the OPNP was declared a National Park. The park's importance to the whole region as a "center for education about the geology, flora and fauna of the Keilor Plains, and the restoration of degraded land" is important. With its inclusion in the IUCN Category III (Natural Monuments) of the United Nations’ list of National Parks and Protected Areas, there is a greater recognition of the need to protect or preserve outstanding natural features. (Sourced from Internet)
Traprock along the Wepawaug.
So the screen is flat. The light-sensitive surface in a camera is flat. But the space we are shooting is NOT flat. So you gotta fold up the space, mess with it, to put the viewer in the space.
Cubists painters unfolded the origami of reality to show three dimensions.
Me? I'm folding it up, folding up the flat surface of the screen to pull you into the space.
Don't fall in!
Gusting winds rock a cluster of cedars dauntlessly perched atop an ancient traprock cliff in the Metacomet Range. In the valley below, the outskirts of Meriden are eased from their twilight slumber as dawn banishes a blanket of morning fog.
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Medical Oddities, Nature's Anomalies and Carnival Gaffs: A Pop Up Book for Children, a rather odd book from the Colmore Collection.
The mummy face in the middle does not appear to be made from paper. It has a pliable leathery texture. It is quite similar to a mummy that was part of the American Dime Museum's collection. There is no author or publishing information listed anywhere in this volume. I suspect it is a one of a kind privately produced work. Note that the titular card has the word "anomalies" misspelled. It appears correctly on the cover and title page of the tome itself. Many of the items depicted throughout the book appear in other forms as part of the Colmore Collection.
Created for Textures for Layers Challenge #71: Old Book
Thanks to Playingwithbrushes for "Box Bottom Texture"
Thanks to Skeletal Mess for the "Old Book "
A northwest view of Sleeping Giant (aka., Mt. Carmel) from the parking garage of Quinnipiac University's York Hill campus. The promontory on the extreme left of the horizon is the point at which the previous (East Peak) photo was taken. The patch of open green on the right is part of Quinnipiac University's main Mt. Carmel campus. The rocky notch in the head (western end) of Sleeping Giant is a former rock quarry that ceased operating in 1933. The mountain is a fault-block ridge formed 200 million years ago during the Triassic and Jurassic periods and is composed of traprock, also known as basalt, an extrusive volcanic rock.
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The Great Falls are the second-highest volume waterfall on the east coast (second only to Niagara). The Great Falls thunders over a rocky ledge, 70 feet deep, about 60 feet wide to a broad basin descending 20 feet through traprock and sandstone to the City of Paterson.
The Great Falls are the second-highest on the east coast (second only to Niagara). The Great Falls thunders over a rocky ledge, 70 feet deep, about 60 feet wide to a broad basin descending 20 feet through traprock and sandstone to the City of Paterson.
Oh ya it is also a filthy mess, there is so much trash and debris. I was embarrassed to be honest. From what I am told the Federal Government is going to take it over soon.
I am going to catch up with everyones streams tonight after work I have missed out on so many great posts
tonight being Thursday night
have a great day
Long before European settlement, Traditional Aboriginal custodians lived, hunted, gathered and prospered for countless generations in the Girraween National Park area. Although their legends and place names have been lost, camping places, rock markings, tools and marked trees remain in Girraween National Park as evidence of their life on the land.
Allan Cunningham first entered the Girraween area on the 26th June 1827, but the relatively inhospitable landscape made way for an early exit. In the 1840s Robert Ramsay Mackenzie was the first squatter to legally occupy land in the Girraween area. For decades he and others attempted logging, dairying and farming sheep, cattle, fruit and vegetables.
Dr Spencer Roberts (a medical practitioner in Stanthorpe) was a self-professed guardian of local populations of the superb lyrebird and the common wombat. Convinced that protecting the habitat of these two animals was vital for their long-term survival in Queensland, he put submission after submission to government for declaration of a national park.
Bald Rock Creek National Park was declared in 1930 with Castle Rock National Park declared in 1932. Totalling 1600 ha, they were known collectively as Wyberba National Park.
In 1966, Napier Gunn offered the government his block of 52.4 ha and the two national parks were amalgamated to create today's Girraween National Park. Tom Ryan and Bill and Hock Goebel were employed as field staff and development of infrastructure began.
From 1977 to 1979 further acquisitions enlarged the park to 11,300 ha. The last block acquired in 1980 enlarged Girraween National Park to its present 11,800 ha.
At an average elevation of 900 m above sea level, Girraween National Park is on the northern extremity of the New England Tablelands. Girraween National Park's granite habitat is unique in Queensland.
Roughly 225 million years of powerful acts of nature have created the foundations for Girraween National Park's dramatic landscape.
Major earth movements rocked eastern Australia between 200 and 400 million years ago. The continent collided with an oceanic plate and ocean sediments were thrust from off-shore into the New England area. This ancient sediment is known as traprock or bedrock.
From the depths of the earth, hot molten rock called magma was forced upwards and invaded the traprock layer. Cooling slowly, the liquid magma solidified to form granite.
Over millions of years, nature's forces combined to erode the traprock, revealing the bare granite below. Today, water, wind, ice and plants continue to mould Girraween National Park's ever-changing landscape.
Source: Queensland Government Parks & Forests.
New Haven Trap Rock Railroad & open mining facility at North Branford, Connecticut, 1936. This small mining operation railroad made connection with the New Haven Railroad to transport its rock product to customers. The steam locomotive in the center background appears to be an 0-4-0T engine. The steam shovel in the background appears to be coal fired.
This photo came from the Internet and the photographers name was not provided.
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Taken from the top of Mount Sugarloaf. Facing southward and looking downstream at New England's great river, the Connecticut.
As the older photographers among you will immediately recognize, I used one particular type of Kodak slide film for this photo. Sometimes it's okay to have the Ektachrome Blues. In this case, I love what the color bias does to the water, haze, and landscape in general.
This river gets my vote for one of the planet's most beautiful streams, and as a former New England resident I've obsessively explored, studied, and photographed it from its source in far-northern New Hampshire's Fourth Connecticut Lake all the way to its mouth in Long Island Sound. In fact, it's one of the leading characters in my Plant Explorer's Guide to New England . Geologically, botanically, and historically, it's too great to be comprehended fully by any one person or any one generation.
What seems to be such a tranquil setting now, a broad floodplain with its neatly laid-out wrapper-leaf-tobacco farms and windbreaks, was the scene of immense eruptive and tectonic activity 200 Ma ago. At the boundary of the Triassic and Jurassic periods a major rift developed here as the supercontinent Pangaea began to break up.
The down-dropped rift zone, technically termed a half graben, became the repository of massive mafic lava flows and immature clastic rocks derived from sediments washed down from the surrounding highlands.
Mount Sugarloaf itself is an erosional remnant made of relatively soft arkose and conglomerate, while the great traprock ridges of Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke, visible in the distance, are composed of tougher stuff—basalt.
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Wadsworth Falls State Park, Middlefield, Connecticut, USA
Wadsworth Falls abruptly drops the Coginchaug River some 30 feet over a near-vertical traprock ledge as flows through Wadsworth Falls State Park in Middlefield. On this particular day, I had been trout fishing the Coginchaug when I noticed that the foam churned up at the foot of the falls was drifting quite far downstream before dissipating. I made a stop back at the truck, swapped my fishing gear for my camera gear and waded into the middle of the river to capture this vista.
Oh, and if you're wondering, I did manage to catch a beautiful brookie...
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CP HDR slowly reverses on the remnants of the Soo Line's Danbury Subdivision to Superior as it passes under the tipple to load the 41 car train. With no digital speedometer on the 6240, the engineer is concentrating on the ground to ensure the train stays at walking speed throughout the entire loading process. After loading, the train will be 5164 tons, and have 1.1 HPT. After Dresser Jct, about one mile remains of the Soo Line's Barron Sub to Ladysmith. Just enough for a rock train to pull down and reverse towards the quarry.
Talcott Mountain & Hublein Tower, Simsbury, Connecticut, USA
Long shadows cast from surrounding woodlands reach across rows of corn as the sun sinks low in the sky, signaling the conclusion of a balmy, autumn day. On the horizon, Talcott Mountain rises nearly 1,000 feet from the surrounding countryside; the iconic Hublein Tower crowns the ridge crest, an unmistakable fleck against bold clouds, forest and traprock cliffs.
In 1823, Encyclopedia Britannica summed up Connecticut as “generally broken land made up of mountains, hills and valleys”. Among the rugged features of this landscape is the Metacomet Range, a distinctive chain of long, sheer ridges that weave through the Connecticut Valley.
Talcott Mountain is just one of many prominent summits of the Metacomet Range, which begins near the Connecticut coast and traces a rocky path north for 100 miles up into northern Massachusetts. Some of the more colorfully named mountains in Connecticut’s length of the chain include Sleeping Giant in Hamden and Wallingford, Meriden’s Hanging Hills and the Barndoor Hills in Granby.
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Long before European settlement, Traditional Aboriginal custodians lived, hunted, gathered and prospered for countless generations in the Girraween National Park area. Although their legends and place names have been lost, camping places, rock markings, tools and marked trees remain in Girraween National Park as evidence of their life on the land.
Allan Cunningham first entered the Girraween area on the 26th June 1827, but the relatively inhospitable landscape made way for an early exit. In the 1840s Robert Ramsay Mackenzie was the first squatter to legally occupy land in the Girraween area. For decades he and others attempted logging, dairying and farming sheep, cattle, fruit and vegetables.
Dr Spencer Roberts (a medical practitioner in Stanthorpe) was a self-professed guardian of local populations of the superb lyrebird and the common wombat. Convinced that protecting the habitat of these two animals was vital for their long-term survival in Queensland, he put submission after submission to government for declaration of a national park.
Bald Rock Creek National Park was declared in 1930 with Castle Rock National Park declared in 1932. Totalling 1600 ha, they were known collectively as Wyberba National Park.
In 1966, Napier Gunn offered the government his block of 52.4 ha and the two national parks were amalgamated to create today's Girraween National Park. Tom Ryan and Bill and Hock Goebel were employed as field staff and development of infrastructure began.
From 1977 to 1979 further acquisitions enlarged the park to 11,300 ha. The last block acquired in 1980 enlarged Girraween National Park to its present 11,800 ha.
At an average elevation of 900 m above sea level, Girraween National Park is on the northern extremity of the New England Tablelands. Girraween National Park's granite habitat is unique in Queensland.
Roughly 225 million years of powerful acts of nature have created the foundations for Girraween National Park's dramatic landscape.
Major earth movements rocked eastern Australia between 200 and 400 million years ago. The continent collided with an oceanic plate and ocean sediments were thrust from off-shore into the New England area. This ancient sediment is known as traprock or bedrock.
From the depths of the earth, hot molten rock called magma was forced upwards and invaded the traprock layer. Cooling slowly, the liquid magma solidified to form granite.
Over millions of years, nature's forces combined to erode the traprock, revealing the bare granite below. Today, water, wind, ice and plants continue to mould Girraween National Park's ever-changing landscape.
Source: Queensland Government Parks & Forests.
Engine: Mack E6 300 HP six cylinder diesel
Transmission: Mack T2070 seven speed
A sharp looking old RD from Trap Rock's fleet as it looked a few weeks ago. This truck is still in active service and is one of several of these older R and RD model Macks the company still operates regularly.
...garden star
"When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so."
Engine: Mack E6 300 HP six cylinder diesel
Transmission: Mack T2070 seven speed
Another angle of this beastly water tanker from Trap Rock's fleet. They have a couple more of these, but this is the big guy. The others have slightly smaller water tanks on them.
The streets of a MidWestern town on the day the Circus of Heaven came to town.
Thanks to Telzey for the inspiration.
Engine: Mack ENDT-676 300 HP six cylinder diesel
Transmission: Mack Maxitorque 5 speed
Trap Rock Industries still run several of these old R-models in their fleet. What were once front line road tractors are now being used as work zone crash attenuator units. 36 years old and still looking good!
Engine: Mack E6 300 HP six cylinder diesel
Transmission: Mack T2070 seven speed
The hazards of our hobby. Those "weeds" looked innocent enough until I walked through them and ended up with several inch and half long thorns in my legs. This truck was too cool not take another picture though. Enjoy!
Engine: Caterpillar C7 six cylinder diesel
Transmission: Allison automatic
Trap Rock Industries was heavily involved in the NJ Turnpike expansion over the past several years. I found this Ford/Etnyre blacktop tack truck a month or so ago parked near the exit 7A interchange.
The Great Falls are the second-highest volume waterfall on the east coast (second only to Niagara). The Great Falls thunders over a rocky ledge, 70 feet deep, about 60 feet wide to a broad basin descending 20 feet through traprock and sandstone to the City of Paterson.
Rare photo from the Craw and Loupe Brothers' Mexican Expedition led by Dr. Walter E. Traprock F.R.S.S.E.U. Script on the photo reads " Craw and Loupe Brothers Expedition amongst the Aluxob pygmies of Mexico". The intent of the expedition was reportedly to bring back a group of "Alux" or "duende", the legendary little people of the Yucatán for exhibition in the Craw and Loupe Brothers Combined Shows. The Aluxob were reported to stand only 1.5 to 2 feet tall and were said to have the ability to appear and disappear at will. This image provides the only evidence of European or North American contact with the tribe. They reputedly agreed to a contract and set sail with the party to the U.S. But upon the party's arrival in New Orleans they indeed disappeared and were never exhibited with Craw and Loupe. There have been many unconfirmed sightings in South Louisiana in the years since.
See Neville Colmore's "Encyclopedia of All The World's Fairies, Fey and Little People: Volume 11, The Americas".
Created for the Texture for Layers Challenge #8: Toltec Warrior
Base image: Toltec Warrior by Telzey
texture by IrissKa from the textures for layers group
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Some digital collage elements: Library of Congess and CELG
and several textures and images of my own
Pen-Chan, The Siamese Sorceress and Her Ectoplasms,
Niran, Chim and Lin.
Craw and Loupe Brothers Combined Shows, date unknown.
Pen-Chan was a medium and stage magician best known for her ability to summon ectoplasmic spirits. Niran was said to be the spirit of an ancient Siamese sorcerer of great renown and power. Pen-Chan claimed much of her power was derived from secret knowledge imparted by Niran. Chim and Lin were billed as the world's only ectoplasmic Siamese twins or as ChimLin the two-headed ectoplasm. Pen-Chan claimed they were her own children that died at birth. Skeptics claimed it was merely a ventriloquist act but it was reportedly quite astounding as the ectoplasms often chattered at the same time in three distinct voices and provided remarkably accurate information.
She performed in many venues throughout the world both on stage and in private sessions. She spent the latter part of her career performing with the Craw and Loupe Brothers Combined Shows.
Later biographical researchers claimed she was born Tallulah Ruth Reiverton in Lupelulla, Alabama, in 1870. She died in 1972 in Bangkok, Thailand (กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์) where she had retired. She was reportedly performing for a group of children in Lumphini Park when she passed over to join her longtime spirit companions.
This is a print of the most famous and controversial of the Neville Colmore fatagravures. This image was used widely by American explorer Walter E. Traprock in the promotion of Colmore's U.S. lecture tour that was never to take place. It was widely dismissed as a fake in Britain. It does apear much clearer than other prints and does not have the characteristic circular vignetting that is common to most, but not all of the fatagravure prints.(e.g. print #19 Lianhanshi). However, it does appear to correspond in part to plate #63 in the Colmore material. The background is different and may have been an attempt to compete with other more popular fairy photographs of the time that have since been exposed as hoaxes.
Displayed in states where real medical oddities were illegal. This exhibit was reportedly made in Missouri in 1919.
All floating in glass
The sun it has passed
Now it's blacker than black
I can hear as you tap on your jar
I am listening to hear where you are
I am listening to hear where you are
Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Original shot digitally with a NIkon P3 Through The Viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex II. Post processed digitally. Thanks to Jill (borealnz) for one of the layers.
Craw and Loupe Brothers Combined Shows
Taken in very early April, just at leaf-break, on the eastern bluff of the Mississippi Valley.
While the deciduous tree at right is unidentified, I'm guessing it's a walnut (Juglans sp.) or a non-shagbark hickory (Carya sp.), based on its furrowed, long-scaled bark and what I take to be catkins hanging from it. But I could be wrong.
At left, however, are certified examples of Juniperus virginiana, or Eastern Red Cedar. In abandoned farm fields this species is much more upright in habit, but in this, another of its customary habitats, it often has a decidedly scrawny look. It seems to enjoy hanging on for dear life on cliff edges, and I've seen it in such exposed and practically soilless places from the traprock ridges of New England's Connecticut River Valley to locales far west of this one.
The thin-bedded, jointed rock beneath the trees is the Devonian-period Bailey Limestone, which is notably cherty. Its high silica content has led to its being quarried farther downriver for the production of abrasive tripoli powder.
For more on this beautiful and geologically fascinating locale, get a copy of my Geology Underfoot in Illinois.
And to see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit Integrative Natural History of Southern Illinois album.
Corvus corax dentium, fine purveyor of oral health and hygeine (but it does not come cheap)
Created for the 48th Contest on Man Ray: Bearing Puller