Rhyolite’s bottle house was built from empty beer and liquor bottles. It took over 50,000 bottles to make this structure, which was restored by Paramount Pictures in 1925, as Rhyolite began to be used as a filming location. Rhyolite might be most famous for its bottle house, built by enterprising miner Tom Kelly out of a plentiful material on hand-beer and liquor bottles. Side roads lead to the red-light district, cemetery, and mine ruins. The beautiful mission-style train station remains intact and looks like it could open tomorrow.
Some ruins are two stories tall, towering like era monuments. Today, the main road through the ghost town leads past crumbling banks once bursting with gold. The ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada sits just outside the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park. By 1911, the mine had closed, and by 1920, the last holdouts had dwindled to 14 lonely souls. As quickly as Rhyolite sprang up, it started to deflate when the financial panic of 1907 kicked off a rush in the opposite direction. The town boasted an ice cream parlor, a school, an ice plant, banks, and a train station. The first post office opened in 1905 at its peak in 1907-1908, Rhyolite was probably home to between 3,500 and 5,000 people. Thousands of people began streaming into the area. While prospecting in the area, they found gold in the Bullfrog Hills, named for their green-spotted rocks. Cross sparked the birth of Rhyolite in 1904.
I would also fix the left side of the image with the strong edit line running the length of the image.Ī ghost town allright. I would try to bring some more contrast to the building itself it seems flat in my opinion. There are some things that I would change. I’m afraid that this is too large a blemish for me. I would have gone to about 400% view and run over that distracting knife-edge with a very soft healing brush. There seems to be a halo around the peak of the building, and there is definitely weirdness in the sky on the left edge, as if that was a sloppy cloning job. I think that the development is a little harsh. The dark sky amplifies the broken lines of the architecture in the upper part. Ī very analogue, timeless feeling the shot could have been taken decades ago. Like the sepia tone works very well in this subject. The sepia tone could be slightly reduced and the vertical could be slightly more straightened (those photographers would have been using a large-format camera and would tilt the vertical). Without reading the description it reminded me of the works of the masters of photography, e.g., Walker Evans and Paul Strand, perhaps going even further back to Eugene Atget. One of the rare cases in which the sepia tone works well. A little blurring in the terrain in the background might not have been a bad thing. I also am not a great fan of the tone and I noticed you shot at F14. I would agree that the composition is solid. I chose the tone for this image as a homage to 19th Century photography. Honestly, I’m not a fan of the tone used here, but I still regard it as a solid piece. It’s hard sometimes to get the right position to isolate scenes such as this, but the photo achieves that. The shadows and angle are very effective. This is a good straightforward, yet dramatic shot of a ruin. Olivieri_paolo (a group admin) edited this topic 8 months ago. Originally posted at 2:35PM, 8 March 2021 PST
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