Up On Cripple Creek by auntietk
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Today we drove up to Cripple Creek, Colorado.
You just know that song has been playing in my head all day! :D
Here's a piece of information for you: The gold mines at Cripple Creek and nearby Victor produced more ounces of gold than the California and Alaska gold rushes combined.
Seriously.
COMBINED!!!
That's just astonishing. I read it on a bronze plaque at a view point, so it must be true.
They started mining gold there in 1890, stopped in the 1960s for a while (sorry ... I didn't get all the facts) and then started up again several years ago. It's now an active, open-pit operation.
Comments (24)
Nice POV. Well done.
Great pic sweetie Hugs Susan~
She sends me.... Delightful framing, Tara! Love these old steam engines! An excellent photo, my friend! You've even managed to get nice detail in the shadows - in full sun, too!
Great image! I love the heavy iron castings in this old mine machinery. I spent a lot of time around Cripple Creek in Colorado years ago. There is also a Cripple Creek here in Tennessee; I used to pan for gold there. Nothing like the Colorado mine, but i did find about $200 in flakes and small nuggets there. Thanks for bringing those good memories back!
wonderful shot
superb composition
A perfect compo, and such BLUE sky!
Great shot love the contrast.
WOW! A gold mine! A wonderful almost abstract capture. So clean against the wonderfully blue sky.
Of course I love the excellent POV and cool info Hun. Yeah - I sit on a "hollow" city after the goldrush that started Johannesburg.... :(
Looks a great landscape through the great bit of engineering.
Seems like it must have been a wonderful adventure! Excellent lighting, Tara! Such a massive structure, and the POV is wonderful, depicting only so much as to just imagine the entire stature of this! I like the colours as well, and the way we can see through the "holes" to the other end of this lovely place!
What a great POV! Love it and a fascinating place to visit, must have been very interesting? A fine shot, well done.. Rob
Awesome shot.
Great capture, Tara very interesting about the gold production
I never knew that, I always thought the west coast mining was the biggest producer in this country. Go figure. Great capture of this slightly rusty but clearly well-used old piece of machinery. That one little line of white cloud is marvelous!
Interesting capture! :)
All those tailings would cripple any creek. Excellent view through the wheel.
Love the lines...diagonals, curves and even a few straight lines. Very artsy! Well done.
No kidding!! Great perspective Tara!
great POV!
Super POV. Great shot my friend.
Awesome shot and POV!!
Great composition