Ladies and Gentlemen, from May 22nd thru May 29th, 2008 Live Journal is conducting and election for positions on the Live Journal Advisory Board. These individuals will represent their fellow users of Live Journal in helping to shape the direction this amazing community will take in the future. Thanks to the support of my peers (including many from here), I was nominated as one of seventeen candidates from across the millions of Live Journal users to stand in the election.

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Just a reminder folks, this community is closed and there is unlikely to be further posts here. You are welcome to follow my photography at jj_maccrimmon. My friending policy there is clearly noted in both my LJ profile and in the actual journal (top entry).

Cheers,

JJ

During the day, I'll be migrating photo articles from here to my jj_maccrimmon account.

For those of you who didn't see the previous post here, I'm unlikely to be maintaining this community or posting further. I found it's just too much work to maintain this and my personal account. Photo's will be copied to my personal account that don't appear in their entirety there. Also I would invite anyone not on the friends list on jj_maccrimmon for join me over there. I don't frind back immediately in my personal journal mainly because family and personal info does get posted there. Comment, let me see your character and personality and we'll go from there.

EDIT: Everything from 19 Sep 07 is now on my personal LJ. Too busy to do more. Too sick to my stomach right now to care. Cheers

Ch ch ch changes

Greetings folks,


The experiment in using this community as my photo playground has been going on for nearly two months. I have to admit that my evaluation of the work necessary in maintaining two sites has been taxing. I think it's been contribution to my creative rut. While I want to separate my personal and professional life, I'm increasingly not convinced that this is not the answer. At the same time I moved to experiement with this community as my photo hub, I started a similiar experiment on my personal LJ jj_maccrimmon in using filters and friends only personal posts. Filtering and friend's only posts on my personal LJ have proven less troublesome to maintain and also reduces the amount of posts I find I have to make.

Here is what I propose then. Over the next month, I'm going to go back to the posts here that have not appeared fully in my personal LJ. I will copy and repost the photo sets to my LJ and the appropriate back date. After next Monday (3 Dec 07), my primary posts will all go onto my personal LJ. ALL the promises made to filter photo information (especially Non Work Safe images) will be kept on my personal journal.

I would like to invite all of you not currently friended on jj_maccrimmon to join me there. My journal offers built in search functions and more immediate responses to comments on posts. Plus it allows me to better track the number of visitors and page views (which I can't do here). Please forgive me if it seems a bit demented to ask you all to come here and then cease posting here, but given the communities I maintain and anticipated personal changes in my life soon, I think this will be for the best. Again my sincere apologies for any annoyance this may cause.

Jeffersonville - 2007

After revisiting Felicia’s northern ‘estate’ there was light enough for one more place, so off we went. Angie badgerphone, and I drove a little ways north and further explored the Jawbone Canyon mine complex. In previous visits there, I’d only viewed the support buildings below the hill the mines were on and never wandered further up to look at the actual mines. Time is taking a heavy toll on the structures here.

Jawbone Canyon Mine



( Fading into the scenery (8 Behind the cut) )

Jeffersonville - 2007

Jeffersonville - 2007

My apologies to the community for the delay in posting these images. I’d meant to get them up last Wednesday. Preparations for the US Thanksgiving holiday set me back time wise. I do hope that for those who celebrated the day, it was enjoyable.

Tracy senzaf1ne, Angie badgerphone, and I had lunch then parted ways after a long and interesting visit. On the drive back into the Antelope Valley, Angie and I decided we wanted more, so we took a little side trip to see if Felicia had indeed survived the fire and been using one of her other known haunts. Although we discovered activity, we couldn’t be sure of the nature or timing of it.

Felicia’s Trailer Revisited


All this and the bathroom sink too

( Writings on the wall (17 Behind the cut) )

Jeffersonville - 2007

Descanso - 2007

Jeffersonville - 2007

In honor of the holiday tomorrow, I'd like to offer up a bit of creative cooking info for people roasting their holiday turkeys. This advice and image was sent to me by a friend and he assured me that it would work most excellently.

*** E-mail message Below ***

Subject: Happy Thanksgiving

NEW TURKEY RECIPE

Your dinner will be the talk of the TOWN!!
You should try this!
Sure to bring smiles from your guests!
Here is a new way to prepare your Thanksgiving Turkey.

1. Cut out aluminum foil in desired shapes.

2. Arrange the turkey in the roasting pan, position the foil carefully.?
(see attached picture for details)

3. Roast according to your own recipe and serve.

4. Watch your guests' faces...


May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Jeffersonville - 2007

Jeffersonville - 2007

Tracy senzaf1ne, Angie badgerphone, and I got together and explored a number of farm sites that surround Bakersfield, CA and offer an insight into the region’s past. Time has stopped dead here. What first struck me as merely garbage lying thickly on the floor were layers of fallen lives, with the past exposed to all.

The Special House



( Illusions and memories are hazy at range (20 Behind the cut) )

Descanso - 2007

The Special House
Imagine if you could, step back in time several decades. Imagine if what you would find in the common, day to day articles of life. The last place that Tracy senzaf1ne showed us on our Bakersfield trip was just such a place. With the exception of furniture (something carried off), every room in this modest 4 room 1910 era farm house was filled with objects from the 1960’s and 70’s. Literally in some places the floor had nearly 18 inches of papers, boxes, clothes, canned goods, boxed foods, and more. It was as if the previous resident dumped out all their furniture and vanished.

Let look around the outside first and then a brief glance inside


Right this way

( Time traveling [13 Behind the cut] )

Descanso - 2007

Jeffersonville - 2007