Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whereabouts is this place in Montana, Greg. These ghost towns are/were rife to the north-east of Madrid and in the Catalunan hinterland in Spain ............ probably also in many parts of rural France, still to-day. Greetings ............ from the "under-the-water-lands"' B. On 15-feb-2006, at 19:40, GREG LORENZO wrote: > bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> writes in part: > >> Hillbilly-land? >> > > Hill people yes. In fact as I was shooting the ghost town, which is > high up in the hills of Montana some yahoo lets loose with a high > powered rifle over my head at a bull elk. > > This was not during hunting season. > > I took this as an invitation to leave quickly which I did. > > >> Greg, have you tried cropping-out the road/track and coming tighter >> in on the right. My eye is distracted by the lightness of the >> track ............ away from the vehicle (focus point) and the >> back- ground. >> > > I actually have some tighter in-camera shots and some wider shots > showing more of the road out of town. (I've got to find all the > negatives.) It looks to me like this old jalopy was leaving town, > died on the roadway and was pushed into the bushes. Most likely > this occured in the 1930's or 40's. > > The local mine ran out of ore in the late 19th century. > > Regards, > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information