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A few from a photo shoot I had with an Asheville model. We were at the base of the waterfall in one of the above photos and it was COLD. The poor girl was shaking so badly I thought it would show up in the photos as motion blur! In the end everything worked out well and I was very happy with the results.

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Very excellent photos Phil. I particularly like the monochromes of the river (slow shutter ?) and the old mine...the lighting is sensational.

Oh the poor girl!....she looks absolutely frozen. The whole scene looks so cold. Great shots all, but the colour shot in the water stands out for me: great expression.

From memory the Biltmore House is/was a Vanderbilt estate. I might've read where it is the largest house in the U.S. It's certainly impressive. Wouldn't like to clean it! :D

Thanks for the great pics, it would seem your trip was very successful,

Richard
 
vanessa65 said:
Very excellent photos Phil. I particularly like the monochromes of the river (slow shutter ?) and the old mine...the lighting is sensational.

Oh the poor girl!....she looks absolutely frozen. The whole scene looks so cold. Great shots all, but the colour shot in the water stands out for me: great expression.

From memory the Biltmore House is/was a Vanderbilt estate. I might've read where it is the largest house in the U.S. It's certainly impressive. Wouldn't like to clean it! :D

Thanks for the great pics, it would seem your trip was very successful,

Richard
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Thanks, Richard.

You are correct on the Biltmore. It was opened in 1895 and is still the largest home in the USA, though it hasn't been a residence since the 1970s. Vanderbilt at one time owned about 200 square miles (518 square kilometers) of land in the area and eventually sold most of it to logging concerns with very specific instructions as to how they could remove the lumber from the land. The access roads became the same roads now used to drive through the forests and, in fact, many of the waterfalls we visited are on land once owned by Vanderbilt.

We took what's called the Butler's Tour in the house and among the fascinating things we learned was the house was originally wired for AC and DC power. At the time of its construction, neither AC nor DC had been selected as the standard for electrical delivery, so Vanderbilt wisely decided to wire the house for both, with a team sent by Thomas Edison himself overseeing the installation of DC power at first. Around 1915, when it was clear that Edison's DC had lost the battle for power dominance, the house was switched to AC with little effort.

Unfortunately, the estate forbids photography inside the house, so I couldn't lens the massive circuit board (made of marble, of course) where all the wires in the house would run to giant throw switches. It is comically old-fashioned, yet this was the way the electricity was routed throughout the house until the mid-1980s when modern circuit breakers were installed.

I also couldn't take pictures of the original boilers used to send heat to the home's 250 rooms. Each of the three boilers is about ten feet in diameter and 25 feet long. They are so massive they had to be built in place before the rest of the house was built around them. Just amazing.

We were lucky to be visiting at the beginning of the estate's hosting of an exhibit of Tiffany stained glass lamps and windows. Every piece on display is an original Tiffany creation and I imagine the collection is priceless. And exquisitely beautiful.

When I was invited to take this trip I never imagined that a relatively small city could have so many things to see and do, but I now know why George Vanderbilt picked Asheville as the location for his "little mountain escape."
 
 
 
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