Victorian Fall in the Gold Country
Photo: Historic Firehouse Number 1 in Fall Season, Nevada City, CaliforniaI think I have a new favorite place in California. The weather is so perfect in Nevada City during the fall season. The cool crisp feeling of 30 degree mornings with daytime temperatures in the high 60's - low 70's.
One of my goals the past couple years is to get some images with colorful fall foliage in scenes with a white picket fence. I certainly got those images on this trip but seeing the victorian-styled Historic Firehouse No. 1 stopped me in my tracks. I was looking for a place to stop and clean off my hazy windshield early Sunday morning when I saw this beautiful building so I abruptly parked the car and shot some photos before cleaning the windshield.
The firehouse building was home to Nevada City's fire department from 1861 to 1938. It has served as the Nevada County Historical Society Museum since 1947 when it was donated by the city council. The museum was closed for the season so I would definetely like to see the museum in the future.
This image would have been a perfect candidate for an HDR exposure since the top was slightly blown out but I don't really mind it this way either since the building is supposed to be white after all. Nevada City is such a beautiful place. You wouldn't realize it by visiting in the fall but it also gets very hot here during the summer.
I spent all day yesterday processing pictures from the Empire Mine but now I am getting to my Nevada City pictures. I plan to add a new web gallery once I'm done processing this next batch of images.
Labels: California, fall, Gold Country, images, photos, pictures, travel
posted by Richard @ 9:13 AM
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Great minds think alike! You won't believe this, but I took almost the same exact shot on Monday. Same scene, cropped the same, but a slightly different angle. You also took yours in the morning and mine was shot in the afternoon. I like yours better! I won't post mine, but I will probably be posting something from my NC shoot in the next couple of days.
Beautiful image Richard, glad your getting some great fall colors, ours are a little flat this year.
Thanks Sherri. When something is this beautiful it's almost as if the photographer plays second fiddle to the scene. I took some alternates as well but this was my favorite take. I could imagine the afternoon shoot was a bit easier to expose for.
Thanks Bernie. It's been pretty flat everywhere else in California as well from what I have seen and heard. You wouldn't know it from where I went though. :-)
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