The stateliness of St. Mary's Glacier

Feature: Colorado Rocky Mountain High

I'm more than a little embarrassed by many of these. They were shot with a wonderful Nikon F and the superb 24mm Nikkor. Problem is, the only lens hood I could find was for a 35mm Nikkor. It looked just fine while I was focusing, wide open, but the depth of field intorduced when the lens was stopped down for the pictures allowed the hood to vignette them. I could crop it out, but if I take my medi…  (read more)

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The stateliness of St. Mary's Glacier

You can see the glacier herself, between the mountains. They don't seem tall, but they were taken at better than 10,000 feet already, I think. The vignetting from the lens hood was visible only when the lens was stopped down for the picture, so it was a darkroom surprise to me. Don't put a hood meant for a 35mm lens on a 24mm lens!

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Something was done to the ore here

Fact is, I'm not even sure what was being mined: gold, silver, lead -- who knows? The questionis not rhetorical: if you know, leave a comment.

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Inside part of the ore-processing building, long abandoned

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Mine machinery, long dormant

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Tailings

That's my best guess, anyway.

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Mine experts would know what this is. I don't.

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The Argo Tunnel Mine

Pictures of this place appear elsewhere among my photographs here. An old, dead mine in Colorado -- what a delight for the lover of Americana. Which I am.

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I call it a "screw pine," but that's a guess

This twisted dead tree has always fascinated me.

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Windblown snow

Also at St. Mary's Glacier. If I'd been shooting a 4X5 with something like Panatomix-X, the detail would be richer, like frosting, but this will do.
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