pics from 1970

[riverrat]

I came across these old pics from my husbands first trip to BiBe (he had forgotten about them) and with help from Casa Grande, I am able to post them. We have a pretty good idea where they were taken but some are still a mystery. If you recognize the locatons, please post!












These are from our first trip as a family in Nov 2004.
Bull and myself ready to make the trip to the Window.



This was taken on Lost Mine Trial.



Just one of the many beautiful views along the Window Trail.



At Santa Elena.



This was taken on the way home heading east. I just happened to glance in the rearview and saw the moon going down as the sun was rising. Breath takingly beautiful!



Hopefully I did this correctly!

[BigBendHiker]

Great pictures.  Thanks for sharing.


BBH

[westtex]

These pictures are really something!  I like the rugged beat down look to old pictures, makes me want to throw away my digital cam and fix up the old 35mm Pentax.

The second form the top looks like the Chisos Basin campground.

The third from the top looks like Boquillas Canyon just below where the sand dune is.

[homerboy2u]

Wonderful Pictures RiverRat :!:

[riverrat]

Somehow I neglected to post this one of my brother in law. Is this one from the Basin as well, I wonder?



The older pics were all taken with a Polaroid Land camera. They seem to have held up pretty well. I hope 40 years from now the news ones taken with fancy smancy cameras do as well! I was pretty sure that one was of Boquillas. The Basin has certainly changed! I kinda wish it was the same though. Way too crowded for my tastes when we were there in 04. You had to wait for a parking spot. But it was Thanksgiving...hope fully our next trip will be during a time when everyone else stays home! I know there will always be places in BiBe where you will be the only person around for miles. Those are the best places...

[Casa Grande]

..... makes me want to throw away my  digital cam and fix up the old 35mm Pentax.

 :shock:  don't do that!  The beauty of the digital is you can render anything you want!

Old Photo?


Or is it.....


You can make your images look like anything you want in this day and age...keep your digital.....
 :!:

[westtex]

Oh come on an old photo beats a digital fake any day of the week and twice on sundays.

The brother in law picture is in the basin also, you can tell by the finger shaped rocks in the upper right corner.

[Casa Grande]

Oh come on an old photo beats a digital fake any day of the week and twice on sundays.

twice?  :roll:

hate to break the news to you, but your old Pentax isn't gonna render an old photo anyway  :lol:

[westtex]

By the time my kids/grandkids get the photos they will be head and shoulders above digital images in personal value, and there probably won't be much more film developing going on 20 years from now with how cheap digital cameras are getting.
The "any day of the week and twice on sundays" comment is an old saying that I guess you haven't heard of.

[chisos_muse]

Yup, I just found this one in the archives. In decent shape too. Ol "Grandma Muse" on the hill that overlooks that thur river. She had 2 sons and more grandchildren than that Luna feller. Survived by a couple of scroungy cattle dogs and died in her chair watchin the sunset.....

[SHANEA]

Yup,

Isn't it past your bedtime Ms. Muse? Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:10 pm    

I assume all is well and probably pretty darn quiet in PJ tonight...

[Casa Grande]

By the time my kids/grandkids get the photos they will be head and shoulders above digital images in personal value, [/size]and there probably won't be much more film developing going on 20 years from now with how cheap digital cameras are getting.
The "any day of the week and twice on sundays" comment is an old saying that I guess you haven't heard of.

i think you're assuming the digital print is not being printed traditionaly.  So long as the print is printed professionally, the end result in 20 years will be about the same as film, depending on the digital camera.  The point I'm making is the camera used (film or digital) has nothing to do with what it's going to look like in twenty years. That depends entirely on the photofinishing.  Unfortunately for your grandchildren, the papers manufactured today are much more advanced than they were even 10 years ago, so your grandchildren are likely going to be seeing a picture of gramps in his bandana in fully saturated color.  Even the professional inkjet papers these days are rated at 50 years of fade proof......still, keep your digital...film is dead. and that's it.  I've had this debate a hand full of times on this board. Do a search and join the discussion on that thread, if you'd like.....and, btw, yes, of course I know the saying, I was being sarcastic. :lol:

[txrounder]

Ol "Grandma Muse" on the hil

...surprisingly Ol Grandma Muse doesnt look too old and outta shape either! LOL

[westtex]

so your grandchildren are likely going to be seeing a picture of gramps in his bandana in fully saturated color

nuts.  

Although I don't plan on throwing away my digital, over time I hope to use my 35mm more even if "film is dead."

to each his own

[fartymarty]

OK, old-mold, new-stew, film-shmilm, digital-shmigital..let’s get this thread back on track. :roll:

Riverrat asked for info and so far westex has done a good job, but I’m not sure the work is complete.
Let’s review and confirm.

Picture 1 is Vernon Bailey Peak, from the Basin

Picture 2 is the Basin campground. (westex)  (with the base of Pulliam Peak in the background.?)

Picture 3 is Boquillas Canyon. (westex)

Picture 4 is ?????  

Picture 5 is the Window w/Vernon Bailey on the right, from the basin.

Picture 6 is that ridge between Vernon Bailey and Pulliam that I don’t know the name of (Pulliam Ridge?, Bailey Ridge? Bailey-Pulliam Ridge?) from the Basin.

And (skipping the newer pictures) the 7th  picture with the brother-in-law is in the basin as IDed by westex because of the “fingers” which is a much better name than the “4 horsemen” which is what I always called them. (there are several places and features of the park that I have given my own names to, because I was too lazy to look them up. Most of the names I have assigned are quite stupid which doesn’t seem to stop me from revealing them to others as one would think it would.)
 
Picture 4 has me stumped  :? and it has several clues, there are trees in the foreground, there is a vertical notch just left of center with a horizontal mark going to the left of the notch base. I just love this “where am I?” identify the picture location stuff, I get out the topos, the pictures, and fire up Google Earth and VIBIBE and I’m a happy camper. Beats a crossword or Sudoku puzzle any day. But this one (#4) has me pixilated (a digital term, sorry, I think the film translation is “clumpy grained emulsion”.)
You’ve no doubt by now surmised that despite my haughty tone :) at the top of this post that I could care less if this thread is off track. I just want to know the location ID of picture 4! Does anyone know, or have a good guess?