26 Degrees... I went outside!
I found a 77mm 9-stop ND filter from China on eBay for $17 plus free shipping. I went looking for an abandoned structure in the park and left my tripod in the car (duh!), so I had to put the camera on the ground. Doesn't really do a great job of showing the silky water falling but it does smooth out the surface quite well.
And this is the structure I left the tripod in the car for.
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The top of the doorway, if you wanna call it that, came to about my chest (I'm 5'4 & 1/2"
. And if you look at the first pic I posted of it, you can see the rocks where the drains are, are the same rocks the cabin is built from. I think in that first pic, there's a bit of foundation you can see in the foreground, making me think the cabin was much larger at one time. There are also some remnants of what looked to be steps going towards the drains.From a comment on Panoramio:
A FIREPLACE AND ROASTING OVEN FOR LITTLE PICNICS ON THE AMENTDALE ESTATE. It stands on the banks of a little stream called Minnehaha. The doorway in which a girl is standing opens into a room in which all kinds of necessary cooking utensils are kept. The other door opens into a fuel room. The girl standing nearest to the roasting oven and directly facing you helped to plan this beautiful little structure. The N.P.S girls are taught to work while they work and play while they play. It is a theory at the school that a healthy, happy girl will learn more in a hour's intensive study than the opposite would in double the time.
The Amentdale Estate was created in 1928, and was sold with the NPS in 1937, when it was renamed National Park College. The girls at the NPS typically spent two years there, so this structure would seem have been built during that time.
I found a little more info. on the cabin.
This was a "spring house" used to keep milk, butter, other perishables fresh. The creek was spring fed, the spring water was cold. That's why it's on the creek, containers could be placed right into the water, the stone floor remained cool in the summer and items kept inside remained considerably cooler than outside. It was probably part of the Edgewood tobacco plantation which was at the Forest Glen site although it was probably also used by the Forest Glen Seminary which had its own dairy barn. The renovated dairy barn is still up hill from the spring house, it now houses a fitness center some admin space on the Army Post.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11950195
