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Alpine Slide

The present Park City ski area opened on December 21, 1963. Originally named Treasure Mountain and operated by the United Park City Mines, it boasted the longest gondola in the U.S., as well as a double chairlift and two J-bar surface lifts.

When the slopes opened to the public, skiers were transported nearly 3 miles (5 km) into the mountain on the Spiro Tunnel mine train and then lifted 1800 ft (548 m) to the slopes on a mine hoist elevator. Aerial trams once used for hauling ore were converted into chairlifts. To this day, there are still more than 1000 miles (1609 km) of old silver-mine workings and tunnels beneath the slopes at Park City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley.
The ski area's name change to Park City came in its fourth season of 1966-67. After seven seasons, the resort was sold by the mining company to Edgar Stern in 1970. (Wikipedia)

Before riding this monster, I snapped five bracketed JPG exposures at the bottom of the Park City Alpine Slide. The family had a fantastic time, and I highly recommend it - fun for just about anyone!

I combined and tonemapped the five exposures in Photomatix, edited in Photoshop for color, levels and smoothing, and applied a few Topaz filters for exposure and contrast. GPS info was added in iPhoto.

Hope you're having a great week!

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Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200

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Uploaded on Jul 13, 2009 | Map

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Pooh floats while holding onto a huge balloon at the beginning of his newish (2003) dark ride attraction, found in Critter Country. We usually get around to Pooh when someone rides Splash Mountain, as not everyone in the family enjoys the big drop Br'er Rabbit has in store.

This attraction can be found in Florida, Tokyo, Hong Kong and (pictured) California Disneyland. More info can be found online at Wikipedia.

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Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/2.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
Flash: No Flash

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Uploaded on Jul 13, 2009

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High On The Mountain Top

I love visiting Robert Redford's Sundance Resort in Aspen Grove, Utah. It's a 20 minute short drive through Provo Canyon from home. While driving through last month, these intense clouds were hanging about. I just had to add more drama to them by Photoshopping in rays of light. Looks more inspirational, and I hope you don't mind ;)

This is 7 bracketed exposures brought into Photomatix, tonemapped, retouched in Photoshop, and finally the GPS location added in iPhoto.

Have a fantastic weekend!

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Exposure Program: Aperture priority AE
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 800 (oops!)

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Uploaded on Jul 10, 2009 | Map

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Work No More

During a Father & Son's campout I found this old work truck hanging out in the field that we camped at. It was in back of a dilapidated make-shift barn and although could probably start-up with some help, I'm guessing that it doesn't get too much action these days.

This is 5xp's brought into Photomatix, tonemapped, retouched in Photoshop with some Topaz filters added, and finally the GPS location added in iPhoto.

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Aperture: f/3.5
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Uploaded on Jul 9, 2009 | Map

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Lightspeed

Take Disneyland at lightspeed with the Star Tours attraction in Tomorrowland. Although I think the attraction is a bit dated, my kids don't care. It's one on ther top 5 I'd have to guess.

Pictured here is RX-24 or REX the robot stepping on the StarSpeeder gas to lightspeed after blowing up the Death Star!

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ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV

Fun Fact:
Star Tours' debut was in 1987, replacing the previous attraction, Adventure Thru Inner Space. It can be found in California (pictured here), Hollywood Studios in Florida, Tokyo, and Paris Disneyland and Disney World Resorts.

The four military-grade flight simulators cost Disney a reported $500,000 each, and when complete, the attraction's cost sat at a whopping $32M - twice that of the entire park when Disneyland was built in 1955. Because of the success of the attraction when opened, Disneyland remained open for a special 60-hour marathon from January 9, 1987 at 10am to January 11, 1987 at 10pm. (Wikipedia)

Now, who wouldn't have wanted to attend that!?

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Uploaded on Jul 9, 2009 | Map

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