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Help Needed -- Where Is This Scene?
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| February 26, 2010
| Jay Henderson
Posted on 02/26/2010 7:43:50 PM PST by jay1949
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posted on
02/26/2010 7:43:50 PM PST
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jay1949
To: jay1949
To: jay1949
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.
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posted on
02/26/2010 7:52:41 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: Charles Henrickson
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posted on
02/26/2010 7:53:17 PM PST
by
Tamatoa
(Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
To: jay1949
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.
To: Tamatoa
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posted on
02/26/2010 7:54:19 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others.)
To: jay1949
I don’t know about the mountains but I’m sure I’ve seen those clouds somewhere before.
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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.)
To: jay1949
Pretty scene, but those would be called foothills out West here, not mountains.
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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.)
To: jay1949
The size and shape of the mountains, and the lack of heavy forest, looks very much like somewhere along the Valley of Virginia.
To: Charles Henrickson
That looks like a European Swallow carrying a coconut, so it must be India.
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posted on
02/26/2010 7:57:30 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: Charles Henrickson
Lokks like part of the Shanendoah river valley.
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posted on
02/26/2010 7:58:23 PM PST
by
WVNight
(We havn't played Cowboys and Muslims yet....)
To: jay1949
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
To: jay1949
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.
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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 !)
To: darkwing104
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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 !)
To: WVNight
WV, I was going to say that too!
mrs
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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!)
To: Grizzled Bear
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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 !)
To: Charles Henrickson
To: jay1949
I think there's a Walmart there now.
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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.)
To: MindBender26
Most old “brownie” style cameras had a pinhole aperture setting. And all film back then was slow.
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posted on
02/26/2010 8:06:49 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: jay1949
Best guess. Cumberlands, or upstate NY, VT, NH, late summer, about noon, looking Southeast. But it’s all a guess.
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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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