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On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some pictures and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words.
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Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.
Most of my previous submissions to “On The Road-In Your Backyard” have been more the backyard variety; this one is different. As many of you know, a couple of months ago I got on a jet plane and flew north to our state capitol in Sacramento. I walked alot, got some good pictures and even enjoyed BBQ with some of the local jackals.
Taken on 2018-07-17 00:00:00
Sacramento, California
This is a view of the capitol building from the capitol mall that extends to the Sacramento river.
Taken on 2018-07-17 00:00:00
Sacramento, California
This is the capitol building from the south(State Senate) side of the building. You can see the Capitol Annex which may not be long for this world.
Taken on 2018-07-17 00:00:00
Sacramento, California
This is the Capitol Building from the mall(like the first picture) in infrared with visual color added back into the picture. When I shoot IR now, I always shoot the same picture with my primary camera to add back in some colors(mainly red) that gets lost in the IR processing.
Taken on 2018-07-17 00:00:00
Sacramento, California
The central portion of the Capitol Building has a dome(you might have noticed it from the previous pics), this is a shot from the first floor looking up. The second floor had a railing that you can look down on the first floor.
Taken on 2018-07-17 00:00:00
Sacramento, California
While most of the old Capitol Building is a museum, the legislative chambers are still in use(as is some offices for each chamber’s leadership). This is a fisheye view of the State Assembly chamber from the gallery. Unfortunately the State Senate chamber was not open during my visit.
Thank you so much ?BillinGlendaleCA, do send us more when you can.
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Amir Khalid
The only thing I ever associated with Sacramento is that it was the setting for the TV show Eight is Enough, which for some reason never once showed any of these gorgeous public buildings. Maybe because it was actually shot elsewhere in California?
?BillinGlendaleCA
A couple of thing I didn’t include in the intro…
Back when I was a teen, after my dad retired, my parents bought a trailer and we took about a month trip though the western US. We visited my aunt in Misery, visited Yellowstone, and visited my dad’s cousin outside of Boise and visited some of my parents friends in Washington and parked on our property up in Sequim. I always had a passion for capitol buildings(I loved exploring the US Capitol), so we stopped at a few along the way: Jefferson City, Boise, Olympia, Salem, and Sacramento. Being that this was the days before digital cameras we were somewhat judicious with our shots and I had one picture of the State Capitol here in California(we went back a couple of years later and the building wasn’t quite the same). I’ve scanned that slide and put it through various programs to get it to look nice, but it never quite worked, especially the sky. That was the reason for the journey. I was originally going to drive the Prius up there, but it’d be at least a 6 hour drive each way. One night while looking at Google Maps and thinking about the drive up there, they listed flying as an option and the price wasn’t too bad. After looking at a travel site, I got a really cheep fare and booked my trip up there.
The Capitol is composed of two parts, the original building that was built between 1861 and 1874 and the annex that was built in the early 1950’s. After I visited in 1975 they began a restoration of the original building. They gutted the building and replaced it with a steel frame interior(similar to what they did with the White House in the late 40’s and early 50’s), restored the floor plan to it’s 1906 state and restored all the artwork that had been damaged by use and yellowed by smoke. The second time I visited was during the reconstruction and the old building was in the gutted phase and they were building the steel structure inside.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: They shot in the Valley.
Quinerly
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sigyn
Testing, testing: Alain, it seems that comments have died off again. Last few posts are in single digits. And that’s not usual. This is a test; maybe everyone took the night off, but…
sigyn
Welp, now I look hysterical.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sigyn: Shhhhh, you’ll wake up the east coast jackals.
Origuy
I have a friend who used to live on N Street, about fifteen blocks from the Capitol. Midtown Sacramento is full of old deciduous trees; it’s one of the few places in California that you can really see autumn color. I used to visit my friend a lot, but I think I only went inside the Capital once. I never went into the Leland Stanford Mansion a few blocks away, but I did go to Sutter’s Fort once.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Origuy: I did walk through the ground of the Stanford Mansion, but I didn’t have time to take the tour of the inside. We went to Sutter’s Fort when we visited in ’75. I did walk though Old Sacramento, that was interesting.
@Quinerly: ?
HinTN
Alain – do you still have mine from the trip to the Utah National Parks?
JPL
Wonderful pictures!
Amir Khalid
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Which Valley would that be?
MomSense
Very nice, Billin.
MattF
Well, testing testing.
mad citizen
My stepson got married on the Capitol grounds one very hot July day. Sadly the marriage didn’t take but did produce our only grandchild. He’s 11 and loves to fish.
HinTN
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I visited Madison, WI, in June and went through the capitol. It’s very ornate. I’ve got some shots that I’ll send in to this feature.
JGabriel
Alain @ Top:
Congratulations, Alain! You’ve got it online and functioning. And thanks for all the work you and M^4 did getting us here.
satby
Beautiful pictures Bill! I especially love the IR one.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Some good news from OBX:
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Frank McCormick
Alain:
My credentials for comment submission keep disappearing and, yes, I’ve double checked that the save box is checked.
I’m using Chrome on Windows 10.
Thanks,
Frank
Amir Khalid
@Frank McCormick:
Nowadays they expire about 30 minutes after your most recent comment.
Platonailedit
Alain
There is a persistent mp4 file called bWCjyq blah blah that shows up in all threads as a download in the mobile version. Could you please remove it? Thanks.
laura
@Origuy: spouse and I lived on N street when we were newly wed. The house soaked up heat all day and unleashed it on us at night. We’d walk down to the Capital grounds to cool off-mostly by hanging around the fish pond.
BinG visited in a pretty hot day and gave a good reason for a meet up. Thanks for the great pics!
SoupCatcher
@Amir Khalid:
Like, oh my gawd!!!
(San Fernando Valley)
Amir Khalid
@SoupCatcher:
I am not American and I haven’t been to California in over 20 years, so my knowledge of the geography is quite rusty.
SoupCatcher
@Amir Khalid: That was my attempt at emulating Valley Girl speak, circa 1985.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: Thanks!
@Amir Khalid: There is only one “The Valley”, aka “Porn Valley”, aka the San Fernando Valley. You do get a pass based on your locale.
@MomSense: Thanks!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mad citizen: Capitol Park is really pretty, there are more pics!
@HinTN: Please do, I’d enjoy seeing them.
@satby: Thanks, adding the visual color shot really adds to the IR shots.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@laura: You’re welcome, it was nice meeting the local jackals. The delta breeze took the edge off the heat, until I walked from Old Sacramento back to the Capitol.