2008 Winter Steam Festival at Golden Spike National Historic Site

theNOIZ

BeachBill

These are all really cool.

I think I like the first one the best, with the closeup a close runner up. I think if you cloned out the telephone poles, it would make the images even better. Maybe even try a B&W or vintage conversion as well.

I would have loved to have been there. Awesome subject material.

roentarre

wonderful colour and compositon! :ivar

theNOIZ

Telephone Poles

BeachBill wrote:

These are all really cool.

I think I like the first one the best, with the closeup a close runner up. I think if you cloned out the telephone poles, it would make the images even better. Maybe even try a B&W or vintage conversion as well.

I would have loved to have been there. Awesome subject material.

Thanks Bill.

You mean telegraph poles. I think they've tried to keep the area authentic by re-doing some of the telegraph lines that the railroad put in. Anyway, good point. Wires always seem to get in the way. And good suggestion about trying a b/w or aged conversion.

Bill, you're from Utah. Do you know what the difference is between a cell phone tower and a telephone pole in the city of Corinne is? Not much. I should have stopped to take a picture of that. The tower they had in town was a telephone pole with the typical cell tower hardware mounted to the top. The image that keeps popping in my head is Wile E. Coyote making a call to ACME on his Verizon phone so he can order a new set of rocket skates. I'm sure someone out there reading this lives in a town much like this and thinks I'm a jerk, but... please. Before I have to apologize, understand that Promontory, Utah, is about one-hundred and nowhere miles away from nothingville. I'll just go over here and shut up now. Sorry about the sarcastic humor.

clemensphoto's

Great colors!! Difficult to pick a favorite - O.K. all of them. Great job.

Shootin1st

Great colors. They're all great...even the pole joke :-)

theNOIZ

Aged Versions
I took Bill's suggestion and aged a few of the photos for fun.







Out of all the photos, this last would probably be the most accurate of the processing used in 1869. "Albumen, widely used from 1855 to the 1890's, this inexpensive photographic method produced paper-based photos. Negatives were captured on glass, and the print was then created on paper that used albumen from egg whites to bind the light-sensitive chemicals to the paper (Paint Shop Pro Photo X2). A display at the Golden Spike visitor center detailed this process.

clemensphoto's

Really like the aged ones aswell.

jasonstone

The first one just pops out at me!! Love it!!!

Pupator

jasonstone wrote:

The first one just pops out at me!! Love it!!!

The first one (in color) is awesome.

BeachBill

I posted some summer-time reenactment photos here.

schmoo

Amazing! I'd never know your modifications were from recent photos. Great job

Eia

Wow, not only wonderful but interesting!

dseidman

I really like your re-edits. These are some really nice photos.

I drove right by this place last summer and now I'm really wishing I had stopped to take a look...

Picture North Carolina

My gosh, what beautiful pieces of machinery! Great shots, thanks for sharing.