Maggie’s What's Your View II

[TripleBull]

OK, DC Visit '18 Part 2...

I realize this is far too much info, so just look at the pictures if you don't want to read the words.

I once saw a documentary on Arlington that impressed me with the sheer size of the Cemetery in terms of the lives lost. It's probably impossible to place bounds around a single life lost to war, but I went there looking to try to find a way to capture pictures that showed what we've lost over the years by looking at how different sections are grouped. I don't feel like I succeeded but at least I learned a little and can hopefully go back and improve on this.

I'm hooked on photomontages so what you'll see are crops of sections of montages that give you a hint of the content near the resolution limit and I'll also put up a greatly shrunken copy of the whole thing. The size of this first view as a complete montage at native resolution is 14' wide by 6.5' tall. It's made from 19 images that are each 5760 pixels tall by 3840 pixels wide. The first shot here is a crop that's about 5% of the whole panorama:

 

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OK, here's the whole panorama, sized way down:

 

[timesublime]

It's been decades since I was last there, but what are the larger tombstones? Pre-standardization?

 

[TripleBull]

It's been decades since I was last there, but what are the larger tombstones? Pre-standardization?

You'll find large ones that are very old and new so it gets down to how they set up a section. I'd have to study a lot more to understand the scope of all those sections. It's really mind blowing. I'm still reeling from the day there.

 

[TripleBull]

I'll go in reverse order on this one, with the full pan first, then a couple of crops. I got a bit depressed walking around and seeing ocean after ocean of headstones, so we walked up to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I took a 360 degree pan inside the Memorial Amphitheater:

It's not hard to get rid of those artifacts you see there, but I'll do that later.

 

[TripleBull]

Here's a crop of the main stage area:

 

[Badfinger]

I was there years ago and was struck by Robert E. Lee's home which as you know was taken over by the North after Lee decided to join the confederacy. They were so upset with him they turned his home into the cemetery to insult him.

The pointed tomestones are the confederate soldiers and they joked they didn't want the yankees sitting on there graves.

 

[TripleBull]

And then a tighter crop:

 

[TripleBull]

I was there years ago and was struck by Robert E. Lee's home which as you know was taken over by the North after Lee decided to join the confederacy. They were so upset with him they turned his home into the cemetery to insult him.

Great photo, Badfinger!

 

[Badfinger]

Thanks, you obviously have some very good gear and a good eye.

 

[TripleBull]

We started the day at Mount Vernon. Here's the fireplace area of the mansion-area slave woman's bunk house:

 

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Here's the other end of the lady slaves' bunkhouse. Those are some short bunks.,

 

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I can relate to the Shoemaker's shop. I like working with hand tools - they might not be the fastest way to do a job but it's great therapy to make natural materials take a new shape that has function.

 

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Over in the Blacksmith's shop, it's time to work the bellows:

 

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This is the Overseer's quarters. I suspect the real bedroom was upstairs, but that's just a guess.

 

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It would have been fun to do this pan from the middle of the lawn ~20 yards ahead, but walking on the lawn is verboten!

 

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OK, one more HDR then I'll turn off the electric sunglasses:

That's the northern Botanical Garden. Dead ahead, you're looking at a greenhouse they heated in the winter.

 

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That's a huge Tulip Poplar.

 

[TripleBull]

Maggie's needs a sub-thread entitled "The Dung Repository"

 

[TripleBull]

That's a load of bull:

 

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[DuneBoer]

Great day at the range!

 

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[tnichols]

Great pics TripleBull. Thank you.

 

[cattleman99]

There’s one in every crowd..

 

[Badfinger]

Hamburger ........

 

[cattleman99]

There’s a lot of money in that building.. home of BigHorn Actions

 

[Geno C.]

3490lbs per tire. Pretty good for a little 14.5. As if I don't have enough other shit to do this week, had to get new tires for this trailer and swap them out

 

[tnichols]

There’s one in every crowd..View attachment 6905046

Aw shit. That’s a wreck!

 

[Threadcutter308]

Aw shit. That’s a wreck!

Yeah, disassembling that mess looks like a fun way to spend the afternoon.....

 

[Geno C.]

Twist him on his side and slide him out. That's how we used to do it

 

[THEIS]

Hi,

Our USA tax dollars at work lol

Sincerely,
Theis

 

[Geno C.]

Full loads at this little church festival. Sunny and 75 with a nice breeze. Perfect way to start the season!!

 

[Badfinger]

Glad to see someone having nice sunny weather, not so nice here in the swap.

 

[Geno C.]

When we have a long winter like we did and a nice start to the summer like this, people are just looking for something to do outside.

There's a huge car show/swap meet in the Dells this weekend too and we're on one of the main routes people take to get there. That helps too

 

[Geno C.]

Little in op maintenance check

 

[THEIS]

@Geno C.

You should design a couple new attractions called:
1. Tears of Freedom; in which ticket holders get to experience various "interrogation" scenarios.
2. Ride the Beast; in which ticket holders get to experience the electric restraint belt.
3. Taser Jousting; in which ticket holders get to compete against each other with taser batons and electric shields.
Sincerely,
Theis

 

[Badfinger]

That's kind of warped but I like it Maybe a water boarding teeter totter.

 

[Geno C.]

@Geno C.

You should design a couple new attractions called:
1. Tears of Freedom; in which ticket holders get to experience various "interrogation" scenarios.
2. Ride the Beast; in which ticket holders get to experience the electric restraint belt.
3. Taser Jousting; in which ticket holders get to compete against each other with taser batons and electric shields.
Sincerely,
Theis

I like it! But the general public are pussies.

 

[tnichols]

That's kind of warped but I like it Maybe a water boarding teeter totter.

It’s not water boarding if you use kerosene ?