Frontier
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Slight Photoshop manipulation of an image taken on NYE using long exposure and zoom lens. There’s quite a high level of detail in this shot (e.g. bloke at the BBQ in the bottom LH corner) which you may not see on screen… 11 seconds @ F11
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I love the contrast of these two couples…old-young, happy-sad…all the way down to their clothing!!
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The sun is beginning to filter through the trees, and the dogwoods are in full bloom here on this beautiful spring morn at the John Oliver Place………….Split-rail fences require much more timber than other types of fences, and so are not common in areas where wood is scarce or expensive. However, they are very simple in their construction, and can be assembled with few tools even on hard or rocky ground. They also can be built without using any nails or other hardware; such hardware was often scarce in frontier locations…….American chestnut was the tree of choice until wire fencing became cheaper and the chestnut blight eliminated this tree…….. The distance between either the zigs or the zags was 16½ feet or one rod. A landowner could then count the zigs or the zags along the side and end of his field and determine the number of square rods in a field which in turn told him how many acres the field contained. One hundred sixty square rods is one acre, so a field ten rods times sixteen rods was an acre.
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The corn crib at the Tipton place is an example of a double pen corn crib, larger than average, and having a driveway through the center. This not only provided a way to conveniently unload the wagon but allowed for extra air to flow through the crib. The hewn log sides were left with open spaces to allow air to circulate through the corn, both allowing it to dry initially and helping it to stay dry…The roofing is known as shackes, which are wooden shingles usually split from leftover parts of logs ….Behind the crib is the edge of a cantalever barn unique to this part of the country……This shot was taken on Cades Cove Loop Road in The Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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At The Mountain Farm Museum,most of the structures were built in the late 19th century and were moved here in the 1950s. The Davis-Queen House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s. The museum is adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center,On the NC side of Hwy.441 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The Davis/Queen house was originally located on Thomas Divide north of Bryson City along Indian Creek. Beginning about 1900, it was built by John E. Davis over a period of a couple years. The house was constructed from American chestnut trees. About 1917 the Davis’ sold their farm to a neighboring family, Joe Thad Queens, who owned the house at the time the land was purchased for inclusion in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It has been described as “the finest example of the large log house in the park.” Davis was a master craftsman who built the house with the aid of his two boys. He “matched” the log walls by splitting a tree in half and using the resulting timbers on opposite sides of the structure. In addition to other duties, his sons, ages 8 and 4, respectively, collected stones for the chimney using a sled and oxen. It is the only log house in the Smokies with a decorative shingle pattern underneath the eaves. Poplar and Chestnut were usually used for the logs in the cabin due how they resist rot and decay.Oak was usually used for the shakes as it split, stright and thin, easier.
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This is an example of a Double Pen Drive Through Barn, they were a little more prevalent than the cantilever barn in East Tennessee. This design provided an out of the weather area to fork hay into the loft, stalls for the livestock, and a dry place for equipment. Two men could work each side from a wagon in the middle when putting up hay, cutting the time used in dealing with the hay. This barn is located in the Cable Mill Visitor Center Area of Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountain National Park
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This church was organized in the 1820s with services held in a log building until the building of this structure. The Methodists were not as numerous as the dominant Baptists here, and often depended on a circuit riding preacher. Another church, Hopewell Methodist, is marked only by a cemetery today was across the cove. The Civil War caused division in the church so several started going to Hopewell. In 1902 this structure and its furnishings were reportedly the work of one man. J. D. McCampbell, a blacksmith and carpenter, built it in 115 days of $115. Afterward, he became its preacher for many years. The two doors are a result of the plans used to build this structure. In some churches ladies and children entered through the left door, and men through the right one. A divider separated the two groups, causing frustration among courting couples. They are no indication they practiced this separation here.
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The church house in the early days not only served as a place of worship but of a gathering place for the community. It was a place to meet and get caught up on the area happenings or for singles to meet possible mates. In many areas it would serve as a school a few months a year. In 1902 this structure and its furnishings were reportedly the work of one man. J. D. McCampbell, a blacksmith and carpenter, built it in 115 days of $115. Afterward, he became its preacher for many years. It is located in the Cades Cove area of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park There are not many records of the early Methodist Church. The Cades Cove Methodist Church is included among those of the Holston Conference’s Little River Circuit in 1830.The cemetery contains at least 100 graves and is the second oldest church cemetery in the Cove. Methodists were not as dominant as Baptists in the Cove, but they served the community well.
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A sepia version of a previous image The Enloe-Floyd Barn is located at The Mountain Farm Museum on U.S. 441 adjacent to the national park’s Oconaluftee Visitor Center, two miles north of Cherokee. The site is open year-round The barn is the only museum building original to the site. It was part of the Joseph Enloe farm. The Enloe house, built in the 1880s, stood on the site now occupied by the Oconaluftee Visitor Center. In 1917 the Enloes sold their farm to the Floyds, a neighboring family. When the museum opened, the barn was initially left on its original site, about 30 yards from the present-day Visitor Center. It was moved to its current location within the museum complex in 1960. Fifty feet wide and 60 feet long with a “shotgun” opening down the middle, the structure has several stalls and storage areas on each side of the long “hallway.” Upstairs there is a vast hayloft large enough to store a 2,500 square foot suburban home. Thought to be a “Drover’s barn” it is similar to the cantilevered barn in having a large, overhanging, frame loft for hay storage In this case, the loft is supported by log piers. This structure is much bigger than most barns, for it served as a “cattle hotel”, a place where farmers could stable their herds for a night as they drove them off the mountains to market
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The armada is approaching rendezvous with a habitable planet with three moons, one of which has an atmosphere and appears to be habitable itself! In spite of the green oceans everything about this planet and the one moon is equivalent to mother earth in the ability to support life. As yet no native life forms have been detected.
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Even though most pioneer cabins didn’t have gutters this may seem like a new idea. In 1066 the Norman invasion instigated a massive rebuilding of English towns and churches. Grand buildings have stone roofs and parapets, which lead to gutters and gargoyles to throw the water clear. These early settlers had probably seen gutters of one sort or nother by the time they got here but most evidently didn’t feel the need for them. The gutter here is on The Queen-Davis House,GSMNP. Built by John E. Davis who was a master craftsman who built the house with the aid of his two boys. Noah Ogle had used a similar type troth to run water from a spring to his back porch. These were a group of people that used what they had around them to make places to live and tools to work with. The food they had was buy trading their crafts or hunting/growing. They by far weren’t a unlearned class of people but very able to adapt to what ever change life threw at them.
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This is Henry Whitehead’s smokehouse. Being constructed well, like his cabin, it has stood the test of time. During a tornado that ripped thru Cades Cove in the latter part of 1970s, a pine tree was uprooted and thrown on top of the smokehouse. It crushed the roof but the sturdy walls held their ground
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My cesspool of knowledge about little red wagons has been spent on the previous images of this marvelous mode of transporting. For millenniums people have used the wagon in some form or another for transporting of goods and people. It wasn’t until the last couple centuries a self powered version came on the scene. The idea caught on quickly form the 1st steam powered buggies to all the wide range of transportation we have today. The improvements of the millenniums are nothing to compare with the rapid increase of technology in the past 200 years. I often wonder to what extent these rapid improvements in technology have degraded our ways of life. Are out morals and since of family what they use to be? Have our standards and codes of conduct decreased from what they were when wagons and sleds were the preferred mode of moving goods form place to place…..This wagon is sitting on the Tipton Place in Cades Cove ,Great Smoky Mountain NP
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I took this photo at the lunar exhibit at the South Carolina State museum . / I might could get a job at NASA as a photographer . What do Y’all think .
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To see more of my work visit / www.hysteria.com.au / © James Cole
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Oil on Canvas
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A bridge support of the Narrows Bridge. Three images combined in Photomatix. These unusual bubble marks in the water made me think of a spaceship forging its way through space. Please view Larger
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photos are all unedited (unchanged by Photoshop) all taken in Wyoming and Nebraska thank you for viewing!!~
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Astronomers use the Parkes CSIRO Radio telescope to measure the radio energy produced naturally by objects in the universe such as stars, galaxies and clouds of dust and gas. In the spirit of international cooperation, this dish is occasionally used to help JPL/ NASA with collection of data from its spacecraft exploring the planets. Famous for its role in relaying Apollo 11 telemetry and television pictures from the Moon on 21st July, 1969 – the movie “The Dish” was loosely based on that involvement – it has more recently assisted with Voyager 2 at Uranus (January, 1986) and Neptune (August, 1989), Giotto at Comet Halley (March, 1986) and Galileo at Jupiter (most of 1997). Details: / Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II / Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM / Exposure: 30 sec / Aperture: f/2.8 / Focal Length: 16 mm / ISO Speed: 1600 Post Processing: / Imported into Lightroom / Exported to CS3 / Noise reduction layer / Contrast layer / Sharpening layer of the “Dish” area / Re-imported back into Lightroom / Slight chromatic aberration adjustment in Lightroom
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Tree Series: “Frontiers” v2 / Version 1 in soft yellow/green / / Complete Series / / This image is ©Greedy Fly Effects 2009.
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Abstract created in PhotoStudio and Element 7 for effects. / A possible place for all our spirits to go.
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(also included in ‘Stills’ – a new 2010 Calendar)
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