Let's Pretend for a Moment #1Ok, you're sitting on a few thousand acres of coal mining property, and the mine closed down 1928. It's 1930/40 something. There really aren't any annoying codes to get in the way of whatever it is you need to do to shore up the creek bank that keeps washing out
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04/23/2010
SE Colorado, Part 6 - Authentic Ghost Town of Ludlow, Colorado Not far from the memorial site of the Ludlow Massacre, described in my last post on the South Eastern Colorado coal mining history, lies the ghost town of Ludlow, Colorado. Several buildings continue to hang on through the bruta
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04/21/2010
Always Expect The Unexpected! While stomping around at the old Berwind Coal Camp Mine, we walked up and down hills, across a creek, and up a hill again to get to this old abandoned building. Not a grueling hike, but not just off the road either. I wanted to get closer shots of the ruins on the
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04/18/2010
SE Colorado, Part 5 - The Ludlow Massacre Official call to go on strike, September 17, 1913 - "All mine workers are hereby notified that a strike of all the coal mine and coke oven workers in Colorado will begin on Tuesday, September 23, 1913. We are striking for better wages, improved cond
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04/15/2010
Abstract Photos - Take It Through Glass This is a fun thing to try - Abstracts! Set up a piece of textured glass in front of your subject, in this case I used a bouquet of flowers. Make sure the subject is sufficiently lit, position your subject for a good composition, and take the photo. Th
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04/11/2010
SE Colorado, Part 4 - The Berwind Coal Camp Jail In Part 3 of my series on back road discoveries in Southeastern Colorado, I shared the history of the Berwind Coal Camp, now a ghost town in Las Animas County, that once had a population of around 1000, consisting of miners and their families
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04/09/2010
Our Techno Dependency Yesterday, at about 9:30 AM, our computers, cell phones and landlines stopped working. Kapooey, NADA! It was the strangest thing. Suddenly, the only thing I wanted to do was to be on the computer, or call someone. LOL - I felt like a little girl lost. A fiber optic cable
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04/08/2010
Just How Far Can The Airlines Push Us? Brian Williams just reported on the Nightly News that Spirit Airlines has begun charging 45.00 for passengers to place a carryon bag in the overhead!!! He also said that unless passengers begin raising *&^%, this kind of treatment will only get worse. We
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04/06/2010
Make Your Own Light Tent For Indoor Macro Photography A light tent can do wonders for creating the right lighting when you are shooting macros indoors. Made from a lightweight white nylon fabric, it diffuses the light on your subject, and helps you avoid blownout highlights that can occur fro
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04/06/2010
SE Colorado, Part 3 - The Ghost Town Coal Camp of Berwind, Colorado On this trip into southeastern Colorado, we took off on dirt roads that we had never been on, and had no idea what to expect. One such road had lots of surprises, but none more exciting than when we stumbled upon this. This
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04/04/2010
