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I have changed the format on my blog. The landing page will show a comprehensive feed of everything I create on Zazzle.com. On the tabs under the header picture are links to here and to pages of what I decide to talk about arranged by months. Any comments? Please leave one!

All of the photographs on this blog are copyright © protected by Fred Ziegler, all rights reserved.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Awesome Sunsets and other offerings

This panorama was shot from the Minaret Vista near Mammoth Lakes. I stitched 6 photos together to make this spectacular image.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

More Bodie products for your pleasure

This shot of the 1927 Dodge Graham at the gas station in Bodie is special enough. The additionof the shower in the background makes it really unique.

The sepiatone version

Bodie Wagon Wheel 1 postcard
Bodie Wagon Wheel 1 by FloralbyFred
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I always think wagon wheels are interesting subjects in the right circumstances. This is the one of the right circumstances.


Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Today's Round 2 with some back to school.



Bodie CA, in Style

Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. Visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of nearly 10,000 people. The town is named for Waterman S. Body (William Bodey), who had discovered small amounts of gold in hills north of Mono Lake. In 1875, a mine cave-in revealed pay dirt, which led to purchase of the mine by the Standard Company in 1877. People flocked to Bodie and transformed it from a town of a few dozen to a boomtown.

Only a small part of the town survives, preserved in a state of "arrested decay." Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Designated as a National Historic Site and a State Historic Park in 1962, the remains of Bodie are being preserved in a state of "arrested decay". Today this once thriving mining camp is visited by tourists, howling winds and an occasional ghost.

Some truly unique photos of Bodie Ghost Town will be found here. Have a long look!

This one is of the giant wheel at the trail that leads down from the parking lot. I shot this last year and decided to make it a sepiatone shot.

The Bodie firehouse...

The Bodie firehouse in sepiatone.

A glass front home in Bodie.

In sepiatone.

Bodie Points the way... The weather vane seems to be pointing the way to the moon.


For more info about Bodie, click these:
Bodie State Historic Park
Bodie, CA

Monday, August 8, 2011