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Subject: [Leica] Not a PAW - The Leavings, Western Ghost Towns
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Wed Feb 15 12:11:42 2006
References: <28242aa2821713.282171328242aa@shaw.ca>

Whereabouts is this place in Montana, Greg.

These ghost towns are/were rife to the north-east of Madrid and in  
the Catalunan hinterland in Spain ............ probably also in many  
parts of rural France, still to-day.

Greetings ............ from the "under-the-water-lands"'
B.


On 15-feb-2006, at 19:40, GREG LORENZO wrote:

> bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> writes in part:
>
>> Hillbilly-land?
>>
>
> Hill people yes. In fact as I was shooting the ghost town, which is  
> high up in the hills of Montana some yahoo lets loose with a high  
> powered rifle over my head at a bull elk.
>
> This was not during hunting season.
>
> I took this as an invitation to leave quickly which I did.
>
>
>> Greg, have you tried cropping-out the road/track and coming tighter
>> in on the right. My eye is distracted by the lightness of the
>> track ............ away from the vehicle (focus point) and the
>> back- ground.
>>
>
> I actually have some tighter in-camera shots and some wider shots  
> showing more of the road out of town. (I've got to find all the  
> negatives.) It looks to me like this old jalopy was leaving town,  
> died on the roadway and was pushed into the bushes. Most likely  
> this occured in the 1930's or 40's.
>
> The local mine ran out of ore in the late 19th century.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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