Friday, December 30, 2011

View From North Rim 3

View From North Rim 3 by Whitney Lake
View From North Rim 3, a photo by Whitney Lake on Flickr.
The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is entirely different than the South rim. It's a thousand feet higher, forested all the way to the edge in pine and aspen, and it is free from the crowds of the South Rim. It is very easy to find solitude there: the pine scent and cool breezes are truly alpine in character.

This view is just a few steps from the Grand Canyon Lodge, which is roughly 20 winding miles from the north gate and another 20 or so to Jacob Lake, the nearest 'town' which is really just a gas station and a campgrounds at the junction of the road with AZ 89.


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Friday, December 16, 2011

YakiTrail View 2

YakiTrail View 2 by Whitney Lake
YakiTrail View 2, a photo by Whitney Lake on Flickr.

Nearly 5 million people visit the Grand Canyon each year but very go beneath the rim..which seems kinda funny to me to go all that way, take a look at it and then go away. This is a shot from the Yaki trail, which begins at Yaki Point, east of Grand Canyon Village, becomes the South Kaibab Trail to the bottom and then ties into the North Kaibab Trail to the North Rim.

It is easy going down, but coming back up is nothing but steps and switchbacks.....and for a flatlander like me....doing that at 5,000 feet is not an easy chore especially with a tripod and camera. It is well worth the effort though, as each bend in the trail brings another  new, spectacular view, and at sunset, those rocks really glow...just remember there are no handrails to hold onto in the dark...and take plenty of water, cause there isn't any here....this ain't Disneyland.

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Partial View Of Jerome

Partial View Of jerome by Whitney Lake

Partial View Of Jerome, a photo by Whitney Lake on Flickr.

Jerome...one of my favorite places. In it's heyday was called the 'wickedest town in the west', although I doubt that, since the handle has been applied to almost every mining and cow town from the 1800's that I've read about. It was apparently pretty bad, although I think at lot of that has to do with the papers of the time focusing on the sensational elements....surely it was no worse than Detroit.

There are of course, numerous ghost stories, and the town was basically a ghost from around the 1920s until the 1970s when some hippies decided to move in, buy up cheap property and eventually turned it into an artsy destination. I stayed in the Conner Hotel on Halloween night, which is dead center in the middle of town and known for it's ghostly activity. I didn't sleep well though because the room was too stuffy...the only disturbance other than that was the biker revelry in the bar downstairs. The 'asylum' which is the renovated hospital ( the yellow building at top right ) would have been a preferred stay but it was booked solid as well as the numerous historic  B&Bs and the adjacent Surgeons House which is also a privately run B&B with a really nice genteel ambience.

The town is full of shops and small restaurants and pubs, although the 'real' artists are found in the old high school when you first come into town.

The morning following halloween night was exceptionally foggy with cloud cover bringing a spooky atmosphere while misting over the town from the mountains. The fact that I had been told that 2 weeks prior there had been 2 mountain lions prowling the streets gave me far more pause to reflect at that point than ghost stories though.

The mountain is completely riddled with mining tunnels that have undermined building foundations and caused parts of it to slowly slide downhill...notably the jail which is about a block so from it's original site. There is still active mining going on north of town, where there is also a fabulous junkyard of old vehicles and period mining buildings filled with authentic paraphernalia which is run as a tourist attraction by a fellow who has a white beard to his waist, along with his wife and favorite mule.

This pic represents the southern half of the town which is approached from the east on AZ 89A from Sedona by a zigzag roadbed after leaving Clarksdale which continues through town to it's western border with Mingus Mountain and Prescott National Forest.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Abandoned Locomotive Workshop View 2

...a corner in the facility...the yellow iron is part of a moving winch system for pulling and replacing heavy parts. In the older adjacent building, there was a massive timber system for this purpose.

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Abandoned Locomotive Workshop

Locomotive maintenance facility in Washington, Indiana...halfway point in the Sin/Saint B&O line from Cincinnati to St Louis. 2 giant buildings serviced by a LATERAL connector on rails, instead of a turnstile like roundhouses...so it's a pair of rails that travels horizontally between the 2 buildings. A locomotive might come in door 1 of building 1, go out the opposite side, get on the lateral connector and be moved sideways to the right or left to move into position to enter door 10 of building 2. That arrangement can service far more than a roundhouse arrangement....but those days are gone.

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Tribute 2 Motherwell

Tribute 2 Motherwell by Whitney Lake
Tribute 2 Motherwell, a photo by Whitney Lake on Flickr.
..this interior of a Chicago building at night caught my eye when I recognized a favorite painters style in it's reflection and lighting.

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Aurelio Barrios

Aurelio Barrios by Whitney Lake
Aurelio Barrios, a photo by Whitney Lake on Flickr.
This interesting gentleman approached me in Pilsen ( a historic area in Chicago ) with queries concerning digital cameras....at length, he told me that he was a second generation photographer, whose father had photographed many of the political figures and goings-on in the city during the 50s-60s, one of which was recently selected for the cover of a history book of the neighborhood ( see the link on my Flickr page ). Aurelio is semi-retired and still shooting film.

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Chicago Skyline

Chicago Skyline by Whitney Lake
Chicago Skyline, a photo by Whitney Lake on Flickr.
Sunset on the Chicago skyline from the River North Area. 

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