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The photo was taken of the station at Crawford's Notch New Hampshire. It is in a mountain pass in the Appalachian range. The shot was then played with in Photoshop and a vintage automobile added. I do not normally Photoshop my work but was intrigued with this result....

About the location.........
The notch became known to European settlers when found by Timothy Nash in 1771. The 1772 boundaries of Hart's Grant reflected its shape. It was named for Abel Crawford, an explorer, trail-builder and hosteler in the early 19th century. The Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike from Portsmouth was extended through the notch to Lancaster in 1803. The turnpike and later Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad through Crawford Notch opened a new route through the White Mountains for settlers of the area to the northwest to reach Conway on the way to the trading ports on the coast.
A well-documented historic event within the notch was a rock-slide that killed the entire Samuel Willey family in Au...

R.Murrey Haist (Ron) is an award winning artist encompassing a broad range of creative forms. He has successfully expressed himself using various mediums such as pencil, pen and ink, oils/acrylic, watercolour, airbrush, photography, poetry and pyrography. As an artist that captures Canadian scenes, his work has spread throughout North America and Europe. Growing up in Hespeler, Ontario (now part of Cambridge), his natural surroundings provided endless inspiration to sketch. His subject of choice has always been rural scenes, nature and wildlife. As a boy with a vivid imagination, Ron had snowmen riding horses. As time progressed his photography skills preserved his subjects for later pieces of art. Ron's keen and creative eye has also won...