Bodie

Finally getting around to posting from my trip to the Eastside of the Sierras

This time in Bodie I tried to focus more on the smaller aspects. I took plenty of 

landscape type shots but am going to post mostly closer shots and most of them

are in black and white or sepia tone.

For a rough and tumble town Bodie had it's refinements as well. Besides the fact

that it only had one or two churches. As in most boom and bust towns there were

those who were well off and could afford little shows of  refinement including in

the architecture of the buildings.

This next one I just like with all the contrasts. The texture of the wood, I wonder how 

much longer this will stand?

Bodie is littered with machinery scattered across the property.

I used one of Photo Shops presets to get a little grittier 

of an image on this one

This was probably once a major conduit for water either to serve one

of the mines or the town itself. Now unused and slowly rusting away.

This is the back of a boiler where the wood/coal would be 

shoveled into. It gives you some idea of the age of the 

equipment from Bodie.

Over the years I've watched this water tank slowly deteriorate from the rings being higher and 

tight to dropping slowly down the sides.

This is the seat of an old snow sled, not any comfort here. 

Not even rudimentary springs. Don't you just love the texture of the wood.

The roofs in Bodie take a real beating from savage winters to high heat

in the summers.

These two greet you when you leave the parking lot. The scaffolding in the

back was used to raise and lower miners into the shaft and I believe the

wheel was part of the power structure. The clouds and sky are the reasons

 this isn't in black and white

Stay Safe, Go See, Enjoy and Photograph

Dave