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Deep in Silver Falls State Park
By John Staub, Photo # 45-3 from the "Staub-Willard June 1975 Photographic Survey of Calif-Oregon". All Rights Reserved
About Me
- Staubaloha
- One of two (twin brothers...Jim is also an avid photograph to include 3-D) from a family of 8 boys and 1 girl all from the same parents in the same house in the Southland. Now, after living in Eastern Oregon, Central Montana I am in the Beaverton area of the Beaver State. With a surname that originated in Germany that literally means "Dust" my occupation was not an option. It was in my genes to be around dust. I'm a duster at a couple armories working with the great "The Union" seal of the State of Oregon on my armories, flags, hat, shirt, and business card. I have a camera and enjoying taking pictures as time permits. I like to e-mail them to family and friends or make post cards from them and now I'm included some on this Beaver State Lens Duster blog. My mom's grandfather's surname was "Black" so I guess with my Staub name and his I could have made a good coal miner. I'll stick with mining potential photos and the routine of being happily married, keeping in touch with our two daughters, and maintaining my armories and suburban ranch style home with a few rabbit thrown in to keep my hopping.
John, as you know, I have been doing a lot of hiking to prepare for the JMT. I hike in town on the Wildwood Trail after work and then I did that Gorge hike. I keep running in to one green slimmy creature after another on the trials - like the frog. Your Silver Falls post is interesting. What is the Staub-Willard Survey?
ReplyDeleteJoe, I call it a "survey" even though it was my usual random photography with no real established outline to what I was after and I think for that 1975 trip Tom also had no definite plan of attack. We simply agreed it would be fun to drive up to Oregon and I would show Tom where I had spent a couple weeks with Ed and Deniese during the summer of 1972 over near Sumpter and Granite, Oregon . We also planned to stop in Salem on our way south to see Ed and Deniese. Other than that we were pretty much free spirits with about 50 rolls of film (for me...12 shots per roll). We also decided somewhere along the way home to stop at Yosemite and do a hike up half dome as I had done with Ed and Jim 10 years before. It was an early, very early, nostalgia trip for a 21 year old. I guess I've always looked backwards more than forward.
ReplyDeleteThe "Survey" idea is borrowed from the early day use of the term in respect to the scientific surveys of the West such as the one Charleton Watkins the photographer found himself on in the Columbia Gorge a century before working for one of the railroads. Tom Willard and I drove through there in one overcast June day and did some photographic work. I wish we had taken a little more time along that route but isn't that why we go back? Good luck on your John Muir Trail hike when you will hopefully be able to do it in September. John
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