Hmmm, long story, I'll try to shorten it. The two buildings on the end right are closed and abandoned and have been for some time. The store on the left end (with a bar) is still open. It is a lot newer that than the others (relatively speaking).
This is a very, very small town (basically five buildings) that is verging on being a ghost town. The Emporium & Bar and the Post Office (not shown) struggle to keep going. It is in Northern Northern California. I stopped by at the end of my Oregon/Washington trip, in the valley where my father grew up, and again took some photos. I have shown a few before on list. The middle building is my great grandfather's store. He and my other great grandfather both came to CA for the Gold Rush. Neither made any money from finding gold, but one ended up having a very successful cattle ranch, and this one ended up opening the first chain stores in Northern California (general stores). I, oops, accidentally, took a whole digital "roll" overexposed. I thought I had it set on AV and the dial had been pushed to manual. (That won't happen again, now I will check every time.) Using Lightroom and suggestions from a new Lightroom book I got, I was actually able to recover a couple. The rest had interesting effects. I sort of like this one. Certainly good enough for the "cover" of a PDF I am doing on my family history (for family members). http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/store.htm Tell me if you agree. (I've thought about taking the foliage out from under the tree, but think that might not be an improvement. I've also thought about adding vignetting, ditto, might not improve it.) Marnie aka Doe :-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
