October 17, 2009
This is a shot of some detail work on Vikingshlom a summer home at Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe. Vikingshlom is considered one of the finest examples of Scandinavian architecture in the western hemisphere. Mrs Lora Josephine Knight started construction in 1928 and work was completed on the house in 1929. 200 workers were brought to Emerald Bay to construct the house. Several of the details are exact copies of Scandinavian contruction from as early as the 11th century.
This is a shot from the inside of the Baldwin, a locomotive which saw action near Mount Shasta, California. Nicknamed “GOP” (for “get out and push”) because it derailed so often while hauling redwood logs in northwest California. This locomotive resides at the museum in Collier Memorial State Park just north of Klamath Falls, Oregon. The museum features old logging equipment and a pioneer village from the late 1800′s and early 1900′s.
A shot of two boats moored in Lake Tahoe. You can’t tell but there was snow on the grown from a storm from the night before.
Another shot from the museum at Collier Memorial State Park. This evening shot does not capture the scale of the wheels on this logging equipment. They must have been 7 to 8 feet talk. This was a great shot because the aspen trees were changing color and the sun was back lighting the leaves. What I most liked was something you can not get a sense of there was a breeze that was making the leaves rustle and the aspens quake.
Is this not what the ocean is about. The waves hitting the rocks you can almost hear the sound this wave made when it hit this rock.