This is the Blue Range on Mercury Street. It used to be a brothel, and currently houses Blue Range Engineering. On the ground level the doors alternate with windows. A window to check out the girls, a door to use the “services.” The brothels aren’t the most attractive history about Butte, but they are a …
My friend Justina and I decided to go for walk. We walked to the new construction at the Butte Silver Bow County Archives, but the best photograph was of the windows of the old section. My friend Justina immediately said…”Do you want me to climb into one of the windows?” She has no fear and …
This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo of 44 East Park Street. It’s owned by Silver Bow Property Management. An HDR image is a bunch of different exposures of the same scene in order to capture the detail in the highlights and the shadows. This technique looks a bit “fake” in my opinion, so …
I was matting prints for the Farmers Market tomorrow until 1 am, and figured, hey, I’ll just stay up until sunrise and get some sunrise photos. The sun rises at like four…So I worked and worked and worked, made some mac-and-cheese, worked some more, and at four it wasn’t starting to get light…Finally around 5 …
These are the stairs to the apartments in the Casey Building. The door is on Granite Street, next to the old Frame Gallery.
The Myra Building, aka Tony’s Tin Shop, has intricate detail along the top of the building. The first floor was built in 1915 by Antone Canonica, and the second floor was finished in 1920. He named the building after his wife. The second floor was a “furnished room” which was probably used for prostitution.
There’s a fountain near the corner of Galena and Utah Streets. It’s one of those things I’ve never noticed until a few months ago. I used a long shutter speed to make the water look soft.
This is part of a metal container near the corner of utah and Aluminum. I used the macro setting on my point-and-shoot camera.
Robert with Silver Bow Property Management was welding a hand rail for a rental property.
This is a macro photo of the old telephone at Maloney’s.