2. Photo Outings

2017-12-23 Santa Cruz Lumber Company

Bruce Baker, a local logger and caretaker of timber properties in the area, gave a tour of some private property including the old Santa Cruz Lumber Company sawmill to a small group of people. This site opened in 1923 and operated continuously until 1955, when the original sawmill was refitted from steam power to electric, except for the carriage shot gun feed and log turner which remained steam powered. It operated until 1972, when it was closed. More info on the history of the lumber company and sawmill here.
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    Bruce Baker and Melissa Sartain chatting at our first stop at a local creek

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    Upper Pescadero Creek, looking North

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    Sean McLaean setting up a shot and the rest of the group chatting at our first stop at a local creek.

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    Upper Pescadero Creek, looking South

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    Sean McLaean setting up a shot and the rest of the group chatting at our first stop at a local creek. Kaelin WMarsh down in the creek.

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    Interesting burl on a relatively young cluster of redwoods.

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    Collected stuff in front of one of the old Santa Cruz Lumber Company cabins.

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    Collected stuff in front of one of the old Santa Cruz Lumber Company cabins.

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    Arriving at the Santa Cruz Lumber Company Mill. with Sean McLean

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    Arriving at the Santa Cruz Lumber Company Mill. with Sean McLean, Bruce Baker, Kaelin WMarsh

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    Entrance to the Santa Cruz Lumber Company Mill. This is where the logs entered and were rolled sideways toward the back of the building toward the carriage, which moved the logs left and right against the saw at the back of the building on the left.

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    Bark incinerator at Santa Cruz Lumber Company Sawmill

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    Bruce Baker describing the saw table and how it was used to cut the best sections of lumber from the full-length boards.

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    Workbench in saw sharpening room at Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill.

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    Workbench in saw sharpening room at Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill.

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    Work benches in the Santa Cruz Lumber Company saw sharpening room

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    Lifter mechanisim, used to lift bandsaw blades off of the saw and up into this room(the saw sharpening room) and lower sharpened blades back down onto the saw. The blade was hung on the semicircular feature then raised and lowered along the wooden tracks that run vertically up the wall. (B&W Experiment 1)

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    Lifter mechanisim, used to lift bandsaw blades off of the saw and up into this room(the saw sharpening room) and lower sharpened blades back down onto the saw. The blade was hung on the semicircular feature then raised and lowered along the wooden tracks that run vertically up the wall.

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    Saw sharpening room at Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill.

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    Saw sharpening room at Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill.

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    Stairs to saw sharpening room at Santa Cruz Lumber Company

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    Stairs to saw sharpening room at Santa Cruz Lumber Company

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    Large band saw at Santa Cruz Lumber Company Sawmill. This shot was an experiment, stiched together out of four separate images to simulate a wider angle lens than what I had. As such there are some odd distortions and lens flare artifacts, still somewhat interesting IMO.

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    Large band saw at Santa Cruz Lumber Company Sawmill. This shot was an experiment, stiched together out of four separate images to simulate a wider angle lens than what I had. As such there are some odd distortions and lens flare artifacts, still somewhat interesting IMO.

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    Main saw(bandsaw) at Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill.

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    Main saw(bandsaw) at Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill.

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    Large band saw at Santa Cruz Lumber Company Sawmill. This shot was a fusion of six different exposures to capture the extreme dynamic range of the scene(Est. 20 stops total, not all captured).

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    Large band saw at Santa Cruz Lumber Company Sawmill. This shot was a fusion of six different exposures to capture the extreme dynamic range of the scene(Est. 20 stops total, not all captured).

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    Boiler Room Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill

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    Boiler Room Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill

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    Boiler Room Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill

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    Boiler Room Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill There is some motion blur in this, mostly since I had mirror lockup off and the shutter speed was in a range where MLU was needed. Also this is an extended ISO for my camera, which carries its own problems.

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    Boiler Room Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Sawmill

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