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Janesville, CA
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Title
Cosmic Fireplace
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
NOTE:
This image has been quite popular and several folks have opted to purchase it as an 8x10 or 16x20 print from this original upload. While this works, FAA/Pixels doesn't seem to offer the buyer a chance to customize the crop and the default crop isn’t the best. Therefore, I have made a 4X5 version that is available elsewhere in my gallery. I recommend a potential buyer use that version instead of this one if interested in that aspect ratio/shape.
This image captures a fireplace and chimney that stands alongside California State Highway 36 in Lassen County, beneath the galactic core of our wonderful little Milky Way Galaxy. This chimney is all that remains of a building with a very storied past. In the 1930’s this was the location of a bar/restaurant/gas station run by Bill and Jeanette Tunison, long time residents of nearby Westwood California. The Tunisons ran the operation until the early 1940’s when Bill’s brother-in-law was tragically murdered in the establishment. After the tragic event, the Tunisons lost their desire to continue with the business and sold it to Phil Schuldies, who operated it as “Phil’s Place” for several years until moving his business to a new location. This location then had several different names and operators until it became the Little Red Barn Café and ultimately burned down in a fire in 1961, leaving only this fireplace/chimney behind.
This site has since inspired a local group of philanthropic individuals to form a foundation known as the Chimney Fund. The group decorates the chimney on various holidays throughout the year and collects donations to help the less fortunate.
(Source: Tim Purdy, Lassen County Historian (tipurdy.org))
This image, like most of my nightscapes, was created by taking multiple exposures of the night sky and “stacking” them in post production to reduce digital “noise” thus creating a cleaner image. The sky image was then blended to several exposures of the chimney that were “light painted” with a handheld flashlight to produce the final image.
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July 17th, 2021
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Port Orange, FL - United States
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Omaha, NE - United States
Beautiful night sky and a most unusual fireplace. Congratulations on the sale.
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Spectacular Cosmic Fireplace composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L
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