GrauGeist's Photos

[GrauGeist]

Thanks guys!

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent GG !

 

[Rasenpfeil]

..... I could have gotten closer, but I didn't want to freak her out. (critters don't seem to appreciate a monsterous lense hanging over them for some reason)

Oh, I dunno... you got close enough to "Hootie" without freaking her out.. seemed quite comfortable with you in the creek bed, including dragging your gear in, and paid you no mind until those kids decided to make a racket..

awesome pics dude... any new additions to your flicker page? (duh, maybe I'll just go look)

 

[GrauGeist]

Oh, I dunno... you got close enough to "Hootie" without freaking her out.. seemed quite comfortable with you in the creek bed, including dragging your gear in, and paid you no mind until those kids decided to make a racket..

awesome pics dude... any new additions to your flicker page? (duh, maybe I'll just go look)

Owls seem to be indifferent to your presence if you catch them late in the day, but not too close to evening.

And yeah, between the kids and the Bluejays heckling it, I'm surprised it stayed around as long as it did!

As far as flickr goes, I added a few a while back, and I have a few new additions I need to post...

Speaking of "Hootie", here's one of the last photos I grabbed before they moved on to greener (quieter) pastures

 

[evangilder]

Nice!

 

[Gnomey]

Good shot!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

WOW GG!!!!! That's stupendous!!!!

 

[GrauGeist]

Thanks guys!

Alot of the credit goes to the owl, who tolerated me getting about 6 feet away from it for the shot. It was a youngster, and wasn't really interested in what I was doing. These little Western Screech owls are about 9" tall as an adult.

 

[GrauGeist]

I liked Aaron's barn photo, so I thought I'd show off a west coast barn

I took this a couple years ago along Highway 299 East, just a little north of town here.

And yes, I hate the cable too, but this is unedited.

 

[evangilder]

I don't know if it is the barns, or just old buildings with character for me. That's probably why I like the Eastern Sierras. I love the old ghost towns and mills.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I like that GG!

 

[GrauGeist]

Thanks Aaron, I may edit out that cable for that post anyway...it's buggin' me!

And I agree Eric, there's something about a ghost town, not sure what it is...perhaps trying to imagine what it was like when the town was alive. There's all sorts of historic buildings all over this area, but they are disappearing at a rapid pace due to development and environmental conditions. We just lost an entire ghost town last summer due to the fire. It was in excellent shape, and they were considering creating a public park out of it. Nothing left but a few brick ruins now.

Here's a couple shots from the area.
First photo is a house currently occupied, it dates back to the late 1800's and is in Weaverville, a gold-rush era town to the west of here.
Next two photos show all that remains of the Ingot stamp mill mine to the east of here, on Cow Creek. It was in operation from the late 1800's through the depression.

 

[evangilder]

Yep, that's what I am talking about. Every year when I go to Mammoth, I fins stuff like that. We have visited Bodie many times and driven through a lot of the back roads in the Eastern Sierras just to look at a pile of rubble. Must be something nostalgic about it.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Very cool GG and interesting.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nice job!

 

[GrauGeist]

Well, Aluminum Overcast made her low pass over Benton Field today on her way to Redding Airport.

I'll be at Redding tomorrow (Tuesday) morning for a ton of photos!

I also grabbed a shot of a Beech B45 (T-34A) parked at Benton Field for Eric!

 

[evangilder]

Nice ones, GG. Thanks for the T-34 shot. I haven't seen that one.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots, looking forward to more from the coming days.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Thanks for the pictures of the old houses and buildings.
They remind me of several of the small towns in the midwest with building built in the late 1800's and early 1900's.


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