Site Visit: January 18, 2022When I plan a visit to photograph the Gold Country buildings, I have several details I like to work out in advance. First, can I find the building on Google Maps? What route should I take to get there? And, especially important, where will I eat lunch? Fortunately, for the Sandstone Buildings in La Grange, Stanislaus County, the answer to the first question was easy. Yes, these buildings do exist, however I should have played more attention in comparing the Google image with the older photos before I left that morning. Why did I need to plan out this trip better? I should have paid greater attention to the direction I would be taking the photo. I knew what time I was leaving my house and the time I would likely get to La Grange. I knew the direction I was going to be taking the photo. I should have put those two together and have anticipated that I would be taking a photo toward the southeast, right directly into the low sun of a winter morning. A better prepared photographer, just a better photographer, would have been able to deal with the glare problem I had shooting directly towards the sun. Me though, here was my solution. Put your hand up to make a little shade so that you can just get a photo. Check out my fingers in the photo to the left. The other photos of La Grange were actually pretty good. The buildings today serve as the museum for La Grange. The day I visited an old-timer who works at the museum had dropped by to update a log they keep of other old-timers who had passed away. Super pleasant gentleman, although he must have thought I knew much more about the building than he did. He wanted to know if I knew where the iron doors were manufactured. I thought he was setting me up to leave me awed that they had come from England. Instead, he was really curious where the doors were from. If any of my historic preservation people have an idea, please let me know and I'll pass it along.
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