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Emma, Colorado Farm Scene, nr. Basalt, Colorado, October, 1971
Emma, Colorado, lies between Basalt and Carbondale on State Highway 82 in the Roaring Fork River Valley in Western Colorado. Emma is just a place name. There is no town. However, a handsome abandoned red brick building stands in Emma close to the highway that served as a general store decades before my arrival in 1971. Next to the brick building was a small farmyard that caught my eye in the late October afternoon sun. Typical at the time were small farms up and down the Roaring Fork Valley that had been started by European immigrant families. I had no idea who owned this farm, but the strong lines in this scene grabbed my attention, and I took the time to make this photograph on Kodak film with my 4×5 Calumet view camera equipped with a Schneider 90mm f8 Super Angulon wide angle lens. Strong compositional lines–a tall bird house, a rough sawn fence, an old barn, discarded lumber, corrugated sheet metal, among many other elements, all suggested a story of earlier times that descended to this scene of disrepair. Today the mid-Roaring Fork Valley bustles with development and gentrification, having long since swept away scenes such as this that captivated my interest more than fifty years ago.
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