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Help Needed -- Where Is This Scene?
Backcountry Notes ^ | February 26, 2010 | Jay Henderson

Posted on 02/26/2010 7:43:50 PM PST by jay1949

While perusing the Library of Congress archives, I ran across a beautiful old panoramic shot of a dirt road and stone wall viewed against a range of mountains. The scene is very reminiscent of the Valley of Virginia or the Cumberland Valley in Maryland-Pennsylvania, but evidently the attribution information has been lost. Perhaps the profile of the mountains in the background can provide the location -- if anyone out yonder recognizes this place, please let me know.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: mountains; panorama
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1 posted on 02/26/2010 7:43:50 PM PST by jay1949
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2 posted on 02/26/2010 7:49:01 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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Are you kidding?

That photo cold be 75 years old or more. That wall wont be around and it’s even possible that those mountains have been removed for want of coal and/or iron. The valley could be underwater.


3 posted on 02/26/2010 7:52:41 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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Colorado?


4 posted on 02/26/2010 7:53:17 PM PST by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
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It seems to be in an area that does not have much color. I would think that would make it stand out as pretty memorable.


5 posted on 02/26/2010 7:54:18 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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Thailand?


6 posted on 02/26/2010 7:54:19 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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I don’t know about the mountains but I’m sure I’ve seen those clouds somewhere before.


7 posted on 02/26/2010 7:54:54 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Pretty scene, but those would be called foothills out West here, not mountains.


8 posted on 02/26/2010 7:55:41 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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The size and shape of the mountains, and the lack of heavy forest, looks very much like somewhere along the Valley of Virginia.


9 posted on 02/26/2010 7:56:08 PM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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That looks like a European Swallow carrying a coconut, so it must be India.


10 posted on 02/26/2010 7:57:30 PM PST by mnehring
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Lokks like part of the Shanendoah river valley.


11 posted on 02/26/2010 7:58:23 PM PST by WVNight (We havn't played Cowboys and Muslims yet....)
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Jay, It looks very much like Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains in TN. I don’t know how to post a picture on here, but the view I find that is most similar can be seen here http://www.pbase.com/image/23760099


12 posted on 02/26/2010 7:59:20 PM PST by Brent in TN
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Mountains look like weathered Appalachians, rather than “rockier’ Rockies.

Rocks for wall look old and weathered too. Gate in wall looks newer, however, so I think photo is newer than we might think.

In addition, tracks in road look more like rubber tire than wooden wheel.

Last “age” giveaway is the depth of field. Camera lens was as small f-stop (aperture) to allow objects close to camera and far away from camera to all be in focus, although this could be achieved with a small aperture, “slow” film and a 1/4 or 1/2 second exposure.

Film does not seem to be grainy, so again seems to be more modern.

Darkwing104 is good at this photo stuff.

Also, Aeronautical Sectional charts at SkyVector.com are topographical maps, so if you get close to where you think it is, you can confirm mountain patterns with elevations shown on pilot's Sectional charts there.

13 posted on 02/26/2010 7:59:50 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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FYI


14 posted on 02/26/2010 8:01:59 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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WV, I was going to say that too!

mrs


15 posted on 02/26/2010 8:04:06 PM PST by proudmilitarymrs (New Jersey has no soul, only taxes, and a new Gov, we'll see!)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Rock wall in Thailand?


16 posted on 02/26/2010 8:04:22 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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17 posted on 02/26/2010 8:04:47 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
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I think there's a Walmart there now.
18 posted on 02/26/2010 8:04:53 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: MindBender26

Most old “brownie” style cameras had a pinhole aperture setting. And all film back then was slow.


19 posted on 02/26/2010 8:06:49 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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Best guess. Cumberlands, or upstate NY, VT, NH, late summer, about noon, looking Southeast. But it’s all a guess.


20 posted on 02/26/2010 8:09:12 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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