Post-processing #37 |

United States Engineer Office building, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, August 5, 2010 (Pentax K10D)

After year of poor management by civilian authorities, in 1886,  the United States Army Cavalry was called upon to manage Yellowstone National Park’s resources and visitors.  The anticipated short duration of their stay turned into thirty years and the establishment of a permanent post, Fort Yellowstone, after the first five cold, harsh winters.  The US Army Corps of Engineers had the responsibility for government construction activities in the park.

United States Engineer Office¹

“The U.S. Engineer’s Office building (1903), designed by the St. Paul architectural firm of Reed and Stem, is a distinctive, two-story, rock-faced ashlar, gray sandstone building. The building is notable for its pyramidal hipped roof clad with green clay tiles, massive stone chimneys, and bellcast eaves. This roof configuration resulted in the building being nicknamed “the Pagoda.” The building is almost square in plan and has battered walls that taper in thickness from two feet at the top of the water table to one foot at the roof plate. A distinctive feature of the stone work is the use of dressed stone for quoins, window and door surrounds, and the water table.”
“The symmetrical facade (southeast) has a projecting central porch with a hipped roof that mimics the main roof and is supported by two battered, dressed stone columns. The porch frieze is inscribed “United States Engineer Office.” A set of concrete steps provides access to the porch from three sides. The central entrance has paneled double doors and a narrow single-light transom. Flanking the porch on the first and second stories are windows with single-light transoms. A twenty-four-light fixed window is centered above the porch(the window, added in1918, replaced an emblem of the U.S. Engineers on the wall). On the northwest (rear) is a large central entrance with double doors topped with a single-light transom. A small, hipped roof dormer is located in the center of the roof and a wood access ramp has been added to the rear entrance.”
“The building has significant interior details, including rich oak doors, door and window surrounds, moldings, baseboards,and a turned baluster stair case. The central hallway retains the original globe/wrought-iron light fixtures.”

Reference:

1. Waymaking.com

Note:

Post-processing – Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are usually selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 20

NOAA Research Vessel Shenehon, Bayfield, Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

Shenehon, a 65.5-foot vessel, is a converted Tug-Transport (T) boat, built in 1953 by the U.S. Army.  It is now part of a fleet of vessels operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.  The vessel was named in honor of Francis Clinton Shenehon, who was Chief Civilian Engineer of the Great Lakes Survey from 1906-1909 and was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Minnesota from 1909 to 1917.²

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2. Shenehon Company, accessed July 17, 2018

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 19

Madeline Island Ferry Lines, Bayfield, Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

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Madeline Island Ferry Lines, Bayfield, Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

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Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 17

Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2, 2018

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Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 16

Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2, 2018

Paeonia Itoh ‘Bartzella’²

‘Bartzella’ is an intersectional or Itoh hybrid, a very special class of Peonies with parentage from both Tree and Herbaceous species. Blooming in between the Tree Peonies and their Herbaceous cousins, ‘Bartzella’ offers a range of superior traits: shrubby habit, fragrance, luscious bloom color and larger bloom size, excellent resistance to Peony Blight, tolerance of heat, humidity, cold, and poor soil, and extended bloom season.

This plant reaches about 3 feet high and wide in sun or light shade. It is untroubled by rabbits or deer, and is quite long-lived, blooming dependably for decades. Peonies are very slow to propagate (hence their high price) but are quite low maintenance once planted in the garden. They flower in late spring or early summer, and often need plant supports to hold up their bounty of huge blooms. Although most frequently used as a cutflower, they are a delightful garden presence as well, the flowers holding for weeks.

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2. Wayside Gardens; page accessed 7/7/2018

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 15

Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2, 2018

Paeonia Itoh ‘Bartzella’²

‘Bartzella’ is an intersectional or Itoh hybrid, a very special class of Peonies with parentage from both Tree and Herbaceous species. Blooming in between the Tree Peonies and their Herbaceous cousins, ‘Bartzella’ offers a range of superior traits: shrubby habit, fragrance, luscious bloom color and larger bloom size, excellent resistance to Peony Blight, tolerance of heat, humidity, cold, and poor soil, and extended bloom season.

This plant reaches about 3 feet high and wide in sun or light shade. It is untroubled by rabbits or deer, and is quite long-lived, blooming dependably for decades. Peonies are very slow to propagate (hence their high price) but are quite low maintenance once planted in the garden. They flower in late spring or early summer, and often need plant supports to hold up their bounty of huge blooms. Although most frequently used as a cutflower, they are a delightful garden presence as well, the flowers holding for weeks.

Photo shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “Bartzella Itoh Peony.”

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2. Wayside Gardens; page accessed 7/7/2018

Post-processing #36 |

Rainbow after thunderstorm, next to KOA, Grand Junction, Colorado, September 17, 2011 (composite from four Pentax K-r photos using Autostitch)

This photograph from Grand Junction, Colorado, is one of the best rainbows shots I’ve ever had the opportunity to make. The only comparable one that I can think of was also in Colorado, about 125 miles northeast of this one, but it was back 2001 when I was shooting 35mm film.  It also required multiple photos to get it all in.

To get this rainbow all in one image, I took four photos and blended them using Autostitch^1,2, a proprietary image stitching software tool for creating panoramas.

Reference:

1. Autostitch
2. Wikipedia

Note:

Post-processing – Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are usually selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 14

Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2, 2018

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