Field Notes: Stepping off the beaten path with the Oblique Photography Team

Field Notes: Stepping off the beaten path with the Oblique Photography Team

The Repeat Photography Field Crew has been hard at work scaling mountains to capture repeat photographs of images taken a century ago. They’ve checked in to let us know how things are going so far… and it sounds pretty spectacular.

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What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

As the Oblique Photography team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to find the locations where land surveyors once stood to photograph the landscape. Sometimes it’s a bit more complicated (see our last blog post!), but sometimes there is a nice, friendly marker left behind by surveyors of the past…

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Repeat Photography in the Field - How does the Oblique Photography team get those photos lined up?

Repeat Photography in the Field - How does the Oblique Photography team get those photos lined up?

If someone gave you a 100-year-old photo of the mountains and asked you to find the exact spot the photographer stood, do you think you could do it? Every summer, members of our Oblique Photography Team and the Mountain Legacy Project prove they are up to the challenge - find out how they do it!

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