Desert Navy

wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
edited December 12, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
Dry dock
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Anybody can do it.

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  • EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2008
    I'd like to hear the story behind this one!

    Nice in black and white!!!
    ~AnnaMaria~ My little life in God's big universe
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2008
    Eia wrote:
    I'd like to hear the story behind this one!

    Nice in black and white!!!

    Thank you-

    Once upon a time many years ago, an evangelical minister built a tiny resort near a small spring far away and out in the empty desert. The healer dug the spring out and made it into a small lake, or more accurately, a large pond. Somehow he obtained a life boat from a ship and brought it to this remote location and launched it into his miniature sea. Vistors would set sail and drift into the stillness and recite poetry and verses from the Bible. Sadly, one day this all came to an end. The minister and visitors no longer came to drift in the desert.
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2008
    and i will add...

    its a place of mystery and 70-200mm hoods vanish without a trace:D ...


    nice comp on that scene. your treatment really works well on the palms!
    i gotta get back there with my new wide lens !!!! maybe this coming springthumb.gif
    Aaron Nelson
  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2008
    Neat shot..thumb.gif..Where in the world did you find that??????
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited December 9, 2008
    Very nice image. Especially with your description of the scene.
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  • samsplacesamsplace Registered Users Posts: 144 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2008
    Cool image along with story
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    Leave Nothing But Footprints :thumb

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2008
    wfeller wrote:
    Dry dock

    Wow look how the wood has all split apart eek7.gif

    It's ashame to see these things just go to ruin,
    same as those old cars you find.

    Good shot thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2008
    Thanks all. This shot, the Chevy Truck, and the Fully Loaded (Airmobile) photos are in a reasonably protected environment. I think the use they fulfill is that they are there for photo ops, rather than being dragged off by thieves or totally destroyed by vandals. These items are what make up the character of the Mojave. Everytime I revisit one of these sites, another piece is gone or ruined.
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  • roentarreroentarre Registered Users Posts: 497 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2008
    Mmmmmm What a great contrast and textureclap.gif
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2008
    roentarre wrote:
    Mmmmmm What a great contrast and textureclap.gif

    Thanks.
    Anybody can do it.
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