The little smudge you see is from a dirty scanner glass, sorry about that.
Out in Bodie, it was extremely remote to the point where they tried to avoid hauling out the garbage from the site as much as possible. To that end, they did a lot of recycling... this particular building has a wall whose outer surface is made entirely out of tin cans.
Believe it or not, this was stamped on the side of an old vehicle engine.
...and a little closer:
This was taken with a +3 closeup filter, and I hadn't noticed before but it tends to distort in a circular pattern around the center. I need a macro lens!
Leaning up against a building was a runningboard from an old Ford truck. This scan is a bit off though, it looks almost as if I scanned a newspaper picture or something. The print doesn't look that way.
This particular building has a story to it... one of the residents of Bodie was a bit wealthy and wanted a unique home. He blew a hole into the side of a rock, then took the rubble and built walls around the hole.
Finally, here is one of the many rusty car-casses lying around Bodie. The steering wheel is all metal! My car's black rubber steering wheel is hot enough, but METAL?!?!?! Ah the olden-days.
So that's it for my B&W photos. I'll post the slides whenever I can scan them. Since I don't have a negative scanner, that makes it a tad more difficult. Until next time...
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