Archives: Big Thunder Mountain
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What was your first Attraction? Having lived in the West for most of my life and frequently traveling to or though Southern Utah and areas much like it, places like Big Thunder Mountain do not feel too far from reality. What does catch me off guard here in the early morning is hearing the trains […]
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No matter how sunny or how cloudy the Big Thunder Mountain range is it is always beautiful to look at. On this particular day I caught it with blue skys on a warm day. You have to make sure you walk around this beautiful attraction to see all the different looks the same mountain has. […]
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Shooting from a slow moving train isn’t that tough, but finding subjects from the Walt Disney Railroad is a challenge. As most of you know, it’s a lot of greenery and not much scenery. So as you pass the town of Tumbleweed, it’s a chance to get something colorful. With this shot, I used the […]
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I had the luck to come upon this shot with the water being still despite a slight breeze in the air. Any ripples in the water and my reflection would be obliterated. To keep the subject (Thunder mountain) from competing visually with the clouds in the sky I opted for a number of bracketed longer […]
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I am not usually a fan of the “Spray and Pray” style of shooting, but in this case it needed to be done. I set the shutter speed just slow enough to maintain a bit of motion blur, and then waited for the train to pass through the tunnel. Fireing off at 5fps, I walked […]
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Barnabas T. Bullion is the founder and president of the Big Thunder Mining Company. The longtime mining magnate comes from a powerful East Coast family and considers gold to be his very birthright by virtue of his oddly appropriate name; in fact, he considers the ultimate gold strike to be his destiny. And that is […]
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More than the attractions, there is a feeling that Disneyland brings us better than any other place : the change of scenery. Therefore, walking in a 1890-paved path to finally face an arid canyon crossed by small trucks is, in my opinion, the main charm of this park. And, when night is coming, you can […]