Alrighty then…here’s the new one that I’ve been promising for awhile. This is a toughy, though I’m pretty sure that one member of our forum should be able to get it pretty easily. Hints will be provided if needed.
(Sorry for the silhouetting…couldn’t resist emphasizing the sky a bit in this shot!)
Hmmm…this one doesn’t seem to be generating a lot of interest, so I’ll give a clue a little early:
This town is at the base of a multi-state mountain range named for the reddish color that often adorns them from a phenomenon known as Alpenglow (seen just before sunrise and just after sunset in mountainous regions).
Here’s a not so good example of Alpenglow (sorry, can’t find any good ones at the moment):
BTW, this is Long’s Peak in the Front Range…not part of the range in question.
Wow…still not one guess. Is this one harder than I thought, or just uninteresting?
Much harder than you thought. Although, I did google Alpenglow and learned something new.[:)]
How about a whole bunch more really obvious hints?[;)]
That’s just the way it goes with this game. I found that some of the ones I thought would be easy turned out not to be and some of the ones I thought would be tough were nailed right away. But it is certainly interesting. I could take guesses but I’ve only been in your area once and never east of you so I would just be takeing shots in the dark.
BTW- This photo is kinda too dark to see anything very clearly. Not that it’s a bad shot just a tough one for a where is it.
OK…here’s a BIG hint. Blow the picture up by clicking on it. If you follow the rails that I was standing next to, you’ll find a silhouette of something on those rails. Figure out what that something is, and you should be able to figure out where the shot was taken. If it’s still not enough, I’ll drop an even bigger hint in a little while.
I know…I really should start taking a little more care in selecting shots for “Where Is It?” threads. Unfortunately, a good number of my shots are sort of artistic things like this, and I don’t necessarily do much in the way of documentary shooting. It’s definately something I need to work on a little bit.
It’s the solhouette of The Jolly Green Giant![:O] So, it must be LeSeur, Minnesota![;)]
. OK, maybe I don’t see anything in the silhouette.[:(]
It’s kind of small in this shot. How about another clue since that one wasn’t the best:
The town is named for a peak that sits quite prominently to the north (For Reference, the shot was taken while looking to the west). It’s an impressive peak, and takes either a REALLY good 4x4 to get one far up the trail, or a multi-day backpacking trip to summit it. The peak is one of the highest in it’s state.
A multi-state mountain range that could fit that description would be the Sangre De Christo range. If so, that narrows it to the former Rio Grande these days, unless one thinks the former Santa Fe gets real close on the passenger main. One might say that any of the towns on the Walsenburg-Alamosa line or Alamosa-Antonito line are at the “base” of the Sangre De Christo, but I suspect you’re zeroing in on Blanca or Fort Garland, Colo., and as I recall there were some potato packing sheds at Blanca that might look in silhouette like your photo.
S. Hadid
Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding! Congratulations to Mr. Hadid.
The town is Blanca, CO.
The Mountain Range is the Sangre de Cristo Range (Translated: Blood of Christ for the reddish color).
The Peak in question is Blanca Peak, among the top 5 in Colorado (#4 if I remember right. At 14,345 it trails only Mt. Elbert, Mt. Massive and Mt. Harvard).
The mystery silhouette is the homemade diesel of the Southern San Luis Valley Railroad (now abandoned).
I’ll have some more pictures up tomorrow some time with a trip report (including a trip to the GLRR, a trip to the C&TS, a trip over La Veta Pass, and some shots of the homemade diesel aforementioned).
Again, well done Mr. Hadid!
Did you take any pictures of the homemade diesel?
Good thing you gave the clue of reddish multi-state mountain range. Otherwise you could have told me you were at Fresno and I would have been OK with that.
S. Hadid
Murph,
I did get some shots of the thing. It has a look that is certainly all it’s own. I’ve got most of the trip Post-processed, but I need to finish tonight and get them uploaded to my PBase site. Should have them up by tomorrow.
Mr. Hadid, you’re probably right. I need to work at this “Where Is It?” game a little more. I’ll try to post something a little more “documentary”, and a little less “artistic” next time. Still, I’m impressed with yoru thought process in narrowing down your options given the few clues I gave. Well done.