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Man, days like this I wish I was never here in Wyoming. Days like this I long for days on the Colville NF, or kicking back on the Little Pend Oreille Wildlife Refuge...
What do you say when your supervisor doubts you? Doubts the work you do?
Yes, the buildings in the photos I took 2 months ago ARE the same ones depicted in old FS photographs taken back in the 1930's. The only differences are is that the barn and corral are gone... the smaller building next to the bunkhouse is gone... the bunkhouse itself has gone through major changes: the porch is gone, the two chimneys are gone, the south end of the building was extended, and the additional small room that was built by the CCC back in 1933 is STILL there. The small building that's across the bunkhouse has relatively remained the same; what used to be an office building is now a storage/pump house.
Yes, those are the same mountains behind the buildings. Just because they appear larger in the 1935 photographs doesn't mean that this is the WRONG location! It IS the same location! I may not be a professional photographer, but I do know that angles are EVERYTHING when it comes to taking photographs. When I was there, my subject was the BUILDINGS, not the buildings AND surrounding terrain. You wanted pictures of all of the elevations, so that's what I did, I took pictures of each side and corners of the buildings. And because I was CLOSE to the buildings, any sight of the mountains in the background are going to appear different. The 1935 photo shows the buildings (with the barn and other small bldg that are not there anymore) farther than what pictures I took, thus the mountains in the background look HUGE. Of course they do. The picture was taken in an area that was a lot farther than where I was standing (besides, I could only go so far, there was a fence in my way!). Oh, and another thing you refute, the road that led up to the buildings. The road in 1935 led up from the east; today, that road comes in from the north. In 1935, there wasn't a private home next to the ranger station; today, there is, and it happens to sit where that original road was. And gee, maybe that's why the road NOW comes in from the north! And because that house is so close to Forest Service land, maybe THAT'S why the fence is there, and I couldn't replicate that same 1935 photo without hopping onto private property!
GAHHH!!! ARRRGGHH!!!
Yeah, okay, so there's TWO locations on the Forest that have the same name, so maybe, just maybe, I was in the wrong location. Uh, NO I wasn't. I was THERE. I know what the terrain looked like. I know what the buildings look like, just compare the photos. The setting is the SAME. The vegetation is similar, although that buck and pole fence up on the slope in the 1935 photo may not be there, but the slope still is.
*sigh*
What do you say when your supervisor doubts you? Doubts the work you do?
Yes, the buildings in the photos I took 2 months ago ARE the same ones depicted in old FS photographs taken back in the 1930's. The only differences are is that the barn and corral are gone... the smaller building next to the bunkhouse is gone... the bunkhouse itself has gone through major changes: the porch is gone, the two chimneys are gone, the south end of the building was extended, and the additional small room that was built by the CCC back in 1933 is STILL there. The small building that's across the bunkhouse has relatively remained the same; what used to be an office building is now a storage/pump house.
Yes, those are the same mountains behind the buildings. Just because they appear larger in the 1935 photographs doesn't mean that this is the WRONG location! It IS the same location! I may not be a professional photographer, but I do know that angles are EVERYTHING when it comes to taking photographs. When I was there, my subject was the BUILDINGS, not the buildings AND surrounding terrain. You wanted pictures of all of the elevations, so that's what I did, I took pictures of each side and corners of the buildings. And because I was CLOSE to the buildings, any sight of the mountains in the background are going to appear different. The 1935 photo shows the buildings (with the barn and other small bldg that are not there anymore) farther than what pictures I took, thus the mountains in the background look HUGE. Of course they do. The picture was taken in an area that was a lot farther than where I was standing (besides, I could only go so far, there was a fence in my way!). Oh, and another thing you refute, the road that led up to the buildings. The road in 1935 led up from the east; today, that road comes in from the north. In 1935, there wasn't a private home next to the ranger station; today, there is, and it happens to sit where that original road was. And gee, maybe that's why the road NOW comes in from the north! And because that house is so close to Forest Service land, maybe THAT'S why the fence is there, and I couldn't replicate that same 1935 photo without hopping onto private property!
GAHHH!!! ARRRGGHH!!!
Yeah, okay, so there's TWO locations on the Forest that have the same name, so maybe, just maybe, I was in the wrong location. Uh, NO I wasn't. I was THERE. I know what the terrain looked like. I know what the buildings look like, just compare the photos. The setting is the SAME. The vegetation is similar, although that buck and pole fence up on the slope in the 1935 photo may not be there, but the slope still is.
*sigh*