Fred W. Gillaspy - PELICAN FOTO

01/29/2024

After the storm, the morning sun peeks through the trees and fog in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

01/29/2024

A lone gargoyle witnesses another eerie, foggy sunrise in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

12/29/2023

12/07/2023

Remembering the officers and crew of the battleship USS Arizona who perished on this fateful day in 1941.

11/22/2023

Remembering President John F. Kennedy. Hard to believe that he passed 60 years ago on this day in 1963. The motorcade shot was taken in Pueblo, Colorado in 1962. JFK's grave, eternal flame and the Arlington House at Arlington National Cemetery was taken in 1994. ,

09/30/2023

Super Bowl Victory Parade 1982!

08/30/2023

Here are the five images from my series entitled "OLD WEST LEGACY — It’s About Time" that I just today submitted to the 2023 Lens Culture Emerging Talent Competition.

An admission-only attraction, I was able to shoot them at a private tour of the historic Mackay Mansion in Virginia City where we had free-roam of the entire house without anyone else present other than my wife and my brother-in-law "tour guide" and host.

OLD WEST LEGACY — It’s About Time

A time when only the strongest and the richest survived in fabled Virginia City. The have-nots worked hard in the Nevada Comstock Lode silver mines that produced extreme wealth and fortunes for the commercial, social and political elite. The silver extracted from the site led to Nevada being called the “Silver State.” And for this home, built by John William Mackay and located far from the big cities that grew from those riches, like San Francisco on the California coast, time has literally stood still.

Represented here is a living reminder of what it meant to have means in the dirty, hard scrabble territory of the Old West when the finery of the East Coast found its way west by rail and stagecoach. Famous guests may have included The furnishings and decor remain just as they were in the 1870s. The dust is the same.

But the world outside is truly a different place, and living in a different time.

Tempus Fugit.

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08/29/2023

Check out Fred W’s entry to the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2023! Share this post and help discover the best photography from all over the world!

07/25/2023

Let's talk about Laffing Sal. Anyone that wever went to Playland remembers her.
She used to scare the living daylights out of me as a little 4 year-old kid when my mom would take me for a walk down the hill to Playland from where we lived up near Sutro Park.
She was just a mechanical novelty, (Sal, not my mom), and one of a number just like her were manufactured, I've come to discover, by the Philadelpha Tobaggan Company.
In later years when going to Playland as a teenager just for fun and the usual thrills of going on the rides, I thought her laugh to be pretty obnoxious and I mostly ignored her at that point whenever going to the Fun House with my friends.
But Sal's laugh and image are burned into my brain permanently.
And now, she "lives" close by from me once again at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. Fully restored and laughing just like she always did back in the day.