Showing posts with label Gold Country. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gold Country. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2019

Jail time


It was a sad and half rainy / half snowy winter day at Columbia State Park. One of those days where it was maybe better to be locked in a cell in that jail than to face the elements! Maybe not...

iPhone 6,  4.15mm, 1/500 sec @ f/2.2, ISO 32
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6, On1

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Angel's dream

 
To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream [...]

Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-135, 40mm, 1/60 sec @ f/9, ISO 400
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

99 bottles on the wall


On a tour of the Gold Country, we were once lucky to have a private tour of the buildings at the North Bloomfield ghost town (close to Malakoff Diggings). This was taken in the saloon.
Mining was hard and the men spent what little was left of their pay after room & board trying to forget their dire condition through alcohol. Effectively giving back the hard earned money to their employer who was owning everything in town.

Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-135, 28mm 1/60 sec @ f/7.1, ISO 100
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3