Tag: California
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[panorama] Calico Ghost Town Schoolhouse
I’ve clearly cooked the color on this a bit. However, this is more like what you would get after (mythical) rain. The color of the sediments in the Calico hills are quite impressive, and I don’t think I over-did it. Hugin HDR stitch, 3x1ev bracketing; Gimp: grey overlay, color enhance layer.
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Calico Fire Wagon
Here is an HDR panorama experiment. I stitched with Hugin and eported as a HDR tiff which LuminanceHDR let me play with. I settled on the Fattal operator on this one. Impressive how much the pre-gamma adjustment can let you do.
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Remarkable Fossils in San Timoteo Canyon
Robert Reynolds is helping recover an exceptionally old saber-cat and llama, horse, dear and ground sloth fossils. Press Enterprise article has a video interview with the southern California Edison manager of the substation project where the find occurred Also an LA Times article.
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Bell Telephone Sign
I saw this at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California. Jesse was just getting over a cold and Liam was getting badgered by me to drink water. It was only about 99F that day. I got to see the inside of a diesel train, that was neato. Print Version. Once again, angles and…
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Wreck at Big Morongo
This was an old wreck in Big Morongo Canyon, just soaking up the sun after 60 years of neglect. I like taking pictures of entropy and geometry and neglect. Some might think it’s cheap character, though. Order a print!