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Double Takes

by Randel Metz on August 7, 2014

View from the Ore Bucket Lodge in Crested Butte, Colorado; shows the silhouettes of an ore bucket hanging from a rafter on a chain, and a large tree branch laying under the bucket; two large stone columns and a roof form a frame for the two objects; image taken from shadow into light; residences and mountains in the background.

Interior view of the machine shop of General Iron Works at 1245 Osage Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Manhole covers, molds, machinery, and mobile overhead cranes are in the warehouse building.

A Tenth Mountain Division soldier enjoys the beach at Trieste with a woman. Both wear bathing costumes and pose for the camera. Behind them the beach is filled with other sun worshipers.

A man falls into a round Browder safety net at a fire department demonstration in Denver, Colorado. Men and Boy Scouts look on.

Snow blows by seven members of the AdAmAn Club as they make their way up a steep incline of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway tracks on Pikes Pike, an annual mountaineering trek to the top of the 14,110 foot mountain to set off fireworks on New Years Eve, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. They carry backpacks, walking sticks and a camera tripod.

View of the Denver Art Museum's Herbert Bayer sculpture, "The Articulated Wall," at the Design Center at 595 South Broadway Street in the Baker Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The 85 foot sculpture has an enormous steel mast inside that is used as an armature on which stacked horizontal concrete bars have been anchored. The bars are offset so that they weave in and out and are held in place by the top member, using just the force of gravity.

View of summit at Treasure Mountain, Gunnison County, Colorado, with L.C. McClure behind his camera & tripod; horse stands beside unpacked saddle bags; additional camera case, equipment, and probably crate of glass plates are near McClure; clouds top the peaks.

View of a window latch at 1325 Poplar Street in Denver, Colorado.

A pine tree with bare branches, possibly a Limber Pine, stands in the foreground near the summit of Pile Hill west of Apex in Gilpin County, Colorado. Additional tree stumps are on the hill behind the tree. Photographer titled the image "Stout Fellah."

A young man sits in the bed of a truck loaded with sugar beets parked in sugar beet field in Northern Colorado. Shows a line of large beets displayed along the chained sideboard of the truck bed.

Outdoor portrait of three children near the edge of Archer Canal in Denver, Colorado. A nearby sign reads: "Keep Out Danger No Thoroughfare".

Tenth Mountain Division Corporal, Richard Cochran bends over his skis as though adjusting his bindings. He is wearing winter camouflage of "whites" as well as a knapsack and his rifle. Almost obscured behind him is another soldier in the same uniform standing and facing directly toward the camera. Both are on a snow covered mountain in an unnamed location.

View of migrant laborers' houses near Palisade (Mesa County), Colorado. Modest frame houses are by trees and the Colorado River. Mount Garfield is in the distance.

View, from an ore bucket on an aerial tramway, of the cloud covered Shenandoah-Dives Mine near Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado.

Assayers work in a laboratory at the Radium Company of Colorado mine in Colorado.

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