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Post by kiev4a on Oct 31, 2007 22:02:04 GMT -5
Jesuit mission at Cataldo in northern Idaho. Built in 1848, it is the oldest structure in the state. Nikon F3HP Kiron 80-200 f4 zoom.
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Post by kiev4a on Nov 1, 2007 8:36:37 GMT -5
I'll be a happy camper when I can afford a DSLR the will meter with the Kiron and my other Nikon mount MF lenses. I shot this photo with Kodak 400 ISO color film. My 6.5 mp DSLR seems to produce less grain (noise?).
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Post by doubs43 on Nov 1, 2007 15:27:53 GMT -5
Wayne, that's a fine shot without regard for the medium used. The architecture is interesting and unusual.
It's difficult to realize that the oldest structure in Idaho is that new but I suppose the date reflects when European settlers finally made it that far. The coastal areas could be reached by water but the interior wasn't that easy.
Walker
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Post by PeterW on Nov 1, 2007 22:09:49 GMT -5
That's a very nice picture, Wayne, and a very elegant building when you consider how relatively 'new' Idaho is compared with the UK, and what it was lacking in facilities in 1848. Ashford, for example, where I live was listed in the Doomsday Book in 1086, officially became a market town in 1243, and expanded when the Railway Works was built in 1846.
I put 'new' in inverted commas because of course the native Indians were there for generations - centuries, even - before the 1800s. Shoshones, were they, in the Idaho area, Wayne?
My knowledge of US history is very poor compared with that of UK and Europe, but what little I learned about the opening up of the centre and west, and the formation of Territories (with quite a few private axes to grind about the borders) before the formation of recognised States I found quite fascinating, and the same with the colourful characters involved.
Wayne will no doubt put me right on this, but I've got a vague memory of learning that Idaho was opened up largely as a result of the Oregon Trail and then the discovery of gold. Even the name Idaho was controversial. I believe it's a made-up name, despite attempts to pretend it was an Indian-derived word, and was originally used for a different territory - part of Montana, was it? or perhaps part of Colorado? Memory dims, despite valiant attempts by my history teacher at school. My favourite history subject was, and still is, UK social and industrial history - you can't really separate the two after the start of the 1700s.
PeterW.
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 2, 2007 0:17:31 GMT -5
Wayne,
That is an excellent picture of a beautiful building that is elegant in its simplicity.
PeterW.,
I have it on good authority that Idaho was named after a delicious, elongated, superior baking potato.
Mickey
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Post by nikonbob on Nov 2, 2007 0:55:34 GMT -5
Wayne
I'll have to agree with Walker that it is a fine shot without regard for the medium used. Nice to see pieces of history preserved with old being a relative term. I'll go you one better in that I am still waiting for an affordable FF sensor Nikon DSLR that will meter with my old lenses.
Bob
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Post by aceroadholder on Nov 2, 2007 11:06:47 GMT -5
Bob, my guess is that with the current camera SLR market the chances of such a camera being developed is somewhat less than zero. You have to keep reminding yourself of what a tiny portion of the picture taking market that we are.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by kiev4a on Nov 2, 2007 11:59:51 GMT -5
This was shot on one of our last trips that was film-based. The Nikon F3HP still is one of the nicest handling film cameras around. Too bad someone doesn't come up with a digital back for it!
Yes, we're babes here when it comes to history. When we were in Paris this year, we had dinner in the basement of a restaurant that was constructed something like 700 years before the first European explorers arrived in this region!!
Peter, you are spot on concerning the roots of the word "Idaho." Some claimed it was an Indian Word meaning "See the sun (or thunder) coming over the mountains." But Colorado had first option on "Idaho" as as state name and turned it down because some claimed it actually was some sort of native obscenity or not a word at all!
Idaho was part of the Oregon Territory and possibly the Washington Territory before becoming a state on July 3, 1890--one of the last of the continental states.
The earliest European settlements in the state were up north near the Canadian border--Cataldo being the largest. Trappers were here earlier but didn't build anything that survived.
It's a big area. Idaho's second largest county is about the same sizs as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From where I live, in the south, to Cataldo, is about an 8 hour drive--and it's another couple of hours to the Canadian border. It's 500 air miles from the southern to the northern border of the state--by road it's closer to 700 miles.
There will be a pop quiz at a future date.
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