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Bodie State Historic Park

article and photographs by Ben Lincoln

 

I visited Bodie, California in 2007. You can find my impressions and more photos in the Drive 2007 - Day 14 article.

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This is the first sight to be seen on entering Bodie. It still seems to me to be a good emblem of the entire town - the multispectrally rainbow-coloured grass is everywhere, and this type of wood seems to have been the main material used in building most of the structures.

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 35mm(?)
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Date Processed: 2009-10-03
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A wide shot of "Mill Hill" in Bodie. The grass in this area shows a surprising amount of variation outside the visible spectrum.

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-07-03
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One of the most nicely-restored houses in Bodie, this one makes frequent appearances in visitors' photos. The wood used for the siding of this house exhibits the same interesting "cedar" and "purple heart" tones as the dressing table above, so I imagine they're from the same kind of tree.

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm(?)
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-07-03
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Even though I could have done a better job on the composition of this photo, it's still my favourite from Bodie. I love the odd design of the cart, and the bright multispectral colours of the ever-present local grass.

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm(?)
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-07-03
Version: 2.0

 
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Not all of Bodie has been fully-restored. This building seems to have been boarded up until its turn comes around.

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 35mm(?)
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-07-04
Version: 2.0

 
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One of the many enormous pieces of dismantled machinery in Bodie. This one appears to be a pair of giant winches (for dragging lumber?).

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 35mm(?)
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-07-04
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This collosal flywheel - looking for all the world like a relic of a parallel reality in which one of Wernher von Braun's space stations has crashed to Earth - is another great example of the seemingly random pieces of old machinery littered about the town. The effect is as though a young giant has been playing with a late-19th-century factory and left the pieces scattered around when something else caught his attention.

Date Shot: 2007-09-13
Camera Body: Nikon D70 (Modified)
Lens: Nikon Series E 28mm(?)
Filters: Standard Set
Date Processed: 2009-07-04
Version: 2.0

 
 
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